4 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
must be fumigated in the car when such action is deemed necessary by the in- 
spector, and doors and hatches of the cars must be closed or screened. For 
other details and exceptions see regulation 5. 
The regulations also prohibit the interstate shipment of plants, sand, soil, 
earth, peat, compost, and manure from any part of the regulated areas to or 
through any outside point throughout the year unless a Federal permit or cer- 
tificate has been secured. Portions of plants and cut floNvers are restricted to 
interstate movement only between June 15 and October 15, inclusive. For de- 
tails and exceptions see regulations 6 and 7. 
The regulated areas include the District of Columbia, the entire States of 
Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, and 
parts of the States of Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. The boundaries are 
shown in regulation 3. 
These regulations also place certain restrictions to protect restricted articles 
from infestation while in transit, require thorough cleaning of vehicles and con- 
tainers which have been used in transporting restricted products, and provide 
other safeguards and conditions as provided in regulations 8 to 13, inclusive. 
To secure permits and certificates, address the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine, Glenwood Avenue and Henry Street, Bloomfield, N. J., or 
the nearest branch office listed in the appendix. 
Lee a. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 48 (TWELFTH REVISION) 
[Approved Mar. 1, 1937; effective Mar. 1, 19.37] 
I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, have determined that it is neces- 
sary to quarantine the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Mas- 
sachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode 
Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 
to prevent the spread of the Japanese beetle (Popillia japoniea Newni. ). a 
dangerous insect new to and not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed 
within and throughout the United States. 
Now, therefore, under authority conferred by section 8 of the Plant Quaran- 
tine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress 
approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134. 11(55), and having duly given the public 
hearing required thereby, I do quarantine the said States of Connecticut, Dela- 
ware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey. New 
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, 
and the District of Columbia, effective on and after March 1, 1937. Hereafter, 
under the authority of said act of August 20, 1912, amended as aforesaid (1) 
fruits and vegetables; (2) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock, and 
other plants; and (3) sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure shall not 
be shipped, offered for shipment to a common carrier, received for transporta- 
tion or transported by a common carrier, or carried, transported, moved, or 
allowed to be moved from any of said quarantined States or District into or 
through any other State or Territory or District of the United States in manner 
or method or under conditions other than those prescribed in the rules and 
regulations hereinafter made and amendments thereto : Provided, That the 
restrictions of this (juarantine and of the rules and regulations supplemental 
thereto may be limited to the areas in a quarantined State now, or which may 
hereafter be, designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as regulated areas 
when in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture^ the enforcement of the 
aforesaid rules and regulations as to such regulated areas shall be adequate to 
prevent the spread of the Japanese beetle: Provided further. That such limi- 
tations shall be conditioned upon the said State providing for and enforcing 
such control measures with respect to such regulated areas as in the judgment 
of the Secretary of Agriculture shall be deemed adequate to prevent the spread 
of the Japanese beetle therefrom to other parts of the State: And provided 
further. That certain articles clas.sed as restricted herein may, because of the 
nature of their growth or production or their manufactured or processed condi- 
.tion, be exempted by administrative instructions issued by the Chief of the 
