64 .SIXTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT 



U. SL Department of Agriculture (New Jersey Department of A^cultiire 



Cooperatuig) Warning 



Certain areas in New Jersey have been placed under quarautine by the Secre- 

 tary of the United States Department of Agriculture because of the presence of 

 the Green Japanese beetle. 



The transportation, by any means, of farm, garden and orchard products of 

 all kinds, including fruit, vegetahles, hay and grain, from the infested areas, 

 from June 15 to November 1, and of nursery, ornamental and greenhouse stock, 

 and all other plauts, including bulbs and cut flo\Yers, throughout the year. is 

 prohibited. unless such material has been inspected and certified by an Inspector 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture to be free from the Japanese 

 beetle. 



Inspection is made without expense to the owner or shipper. 



Maps showiug the areas where inspection is required have been furnished to 

 the postmasters, express agents and the freight agents of the railroads operating 

 in the infested territory. 



Further Information can be secured from the Office of the Riverton Entomo- 

 logical Laboratory, Riverton, N. J. Telephone Riverton 207-m. 



The penalty for violating the provisions of the Plant Quarantine Act is a fine 

 not to exceed $500. or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both, in the dis- 

 cretion of the court. 



E. T. MEREDITH, 



April 27, 1920. Secretary of Agriculture. 



ENTRY PROHIBITED OF STOCKS, CUTTINGS, SCIONS AND BUDS OF 

 FRUITS FROM ASIA, JAPAN, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND OCEANIA 



The reason for taking quarantine action prohibiting the importation for any 

 purpose of Stocks, cuttings, scions and buds of fruits from Asia, Japan, Philippine 

 Islands and Oceania (including Australia and New Zealand) is explained in 

 the news Statement reproduced below, issued in connection with the notice of 

 hearing. This statement. together with the notice of hearing and the text of the 

 quarantine, is reproduced below. 



Notice of Public Hearing to Consider the Atlvisability of Quarantining Asia, 



Japan, Philippine Islands and Oceania on Account of Dangerous 



Plant Diseases and Insect Pests 



Washington, D. C, February 2, 1920. 



The Secretary of Agriculture has Information that dangerous plant diseases, 

 including Japanese apple cankers (Valsa mali and Diaporthe mali), blister blight 

 (Taphrina piri), and rusts ( Gymnosporangium Koreaense and G. photiniae), 

 and injurious insect pests, including the Oriental fruit motli (Laspeyresia molest), 

 the pear fruit borer (Nephopteryx rubrizonella), the apple moth (Argyresthia 

 conjugella), Psylla pyrisuga, Lecanium glandi and Lecanium kunoeiirsis, new to 

 and not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the 

 United States, exist in Asia, Japan, Philippine Islands and Oceania, and that 

 there is danger of introducing these and other plant diseases and insect pests 

 with Stocks, cuttings, scions and buds of fruits from the countries and localities 

 named. 



It appears, therefore, that the countries and localities above named should 

 be quarantined in accordance with the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 

 (-37 Stat, 315), and that tlie movement from said countries and localities to the 

 United States of Stocks, cuttings, scions and buds of fruits should be prohibited. 



Notice is therefore hereby given that a public hearing will be held at the 



