70 SIXTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT 



QUARANTINE ON ACCOUNT OF EUROPEAN CORN BORER 



Notice of Quarantüie No. 43 



(Effective on and after March 29, 1920. Supersedes Quarantine No. 36) 



The fact has been determiued by tbe Secretary of Agriculture, and notice is 

 hereby given, tbat an injurious insect, tbe European corn borer (Pyrausta 

 nubilalis Hiibn.) new to and not beretofore widely prevalent or distributed within 

 and tbrougbout tbe United States, exists in tbe States of Massachusetts, New 

 Hampsbire, New York and Pennsylvania. 



Now, tberefore, I, E. T. Mereditb, Secretary of Agriculture, under autbority 

 conferred by Section 8 of tbe Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat., 

 315), as amended by tbe Act of Congress approved Marcb 4, 1917 (39 Stat, 1134, 

 1165), do hereby quarantine tbe States of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New 

 York and Pennsylvania, and by tbis notice of quarantine No. 43 do order tbat 

 corn and broom corn, including all parts of tbe stalk, celery, green beans in tbe 

 pod. beets with tops, spinach, rbubarb, oat and rye straw as such or wbeu used 

 as packing cut flowers or entire plants of Chrysanthemum, aster, cosmos, zinnia, 

 hollyhock, and cut flowers or entire plants of gladiolus and dablia, except tbe 

 bulbs thereof, without stems, shall not be moved or allowed to be moved Inter- 

 state from any areas in said quarantined states designated in tbe regulatious 

 supplemental bereto as infested with corn borer in manner or method or under 

 conditions other than those prescribed in tbe rules and regulations hereinafter 

 made and amendments thereto. 



Done in tbe District of Columbia tbis 15th day of March, 1920. 



Witness my band and the seal of tbe United States Department of Agriculture. 



[Seal] E. T. MEREDITH, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Rules and Regulations Supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 43 



Regulation 1. Definitions. For tbe purposes of these regulations tbe following 

 words, names and terms shall be construed, respectively, to mean : 



(a) Corn borer: Tbe insect known as tbe European corn borer (Pyrausta 

 nubilalis Hubn.). 



(b) Quarantined area : Any state, or any portion thereof, quarantined by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture upon determination by bim tbat the corn borer 

 exists therein. 



(c) Infested area: Those portions of any quarantined area which are deter- 

 miued by tbe Secretary of Agriculture to be infested with the corn borer. 



(d) Inspector: An inspector of tbe United States Department of Agriculture. 



Regulation 2. Plants and Plant Products Subject to Restriction. The restric- 

 tions on tbe movement of plants and plant products covered in tbis Notice of 

 Quarantine No. 43 and in tbe rules and regulations supplemental thereto shall 

 apply to all products euumerated in the notice of quarantine originating in or 

 moving from the areas in tbe quarantined states now or hereafter designated by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture as infested areas. 



No restrictions are placed by tbis quarantine and the regulations supplemental 

 thereto on the interstate movement of the articles euumerated therein from all 

 Points in the quarantined states outside of tbe areas now or hereafter designated 

 by tbe Secretary of Agriculture as infested areas. 



No restri(?tions are placed by tbis quarantine and tbe regulations supplemental 

 thereto on the interstate movement of the articles euumerated in tbis notice of 

 quarantine when they shall have been manufactured or processed in such manner 

 as to eliminate risk of carriage of tbe corn borer, nor of clean shelled corn, and 

 clean seed of broom corn. 



