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protected State to any other protected State, and permits will not be issued for 
such shipment. 
CONFERENCE ON BLACK STEM RUST QUARANTINE TO BE HELD IN WASHINGTON, 
D. C, ON JULY 14 
[Press notice] 
June 4, 1937. 
A conference to consider a revision of quarantine no. 38, on account of the 
black stem rust of grains, will be held in Washington, D. C, on July 14, 1937, 
Lee A. Strong, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, an- 
nounced today. The conference will open at 10 a. m. in the South Building 
auditorium of the Department of Agriculture. 
The proposal to be discussed is that of adding Missouri, Pennsylvania, Vir- 
ginia, and West Virginia to the list of States designated as protected in the 
quarantine, and thereby regulating the interstate movement into or between 
such States of all barberry and Mahonia plants except the Japanese barberry 
(Berber is thunhcrgii) and its rust-immune varieties. 
The quarantine order at present prohibits the shipment of rust-susceptible 
barberry and Mahonia plants from all States and the District of Columbia 
into 13 protected States. Permits are required for shipment of immune species 
of barberry into or between such States except that interstate movement of 
the Japanese barberry and its rust-immune varieties is not restricted. The 
States designated as protected in the quarantine are Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, 
Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South 
Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 
Barberry eradication in the protected States named has been in progress 
since 1918. Similar work has been carried on during the past 2 years in the 
four States now proposed to be added to the protected area. 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC CONFERENCE TO CONSIDER A REVISION OF QUARANTINE 
NO. 38 ON ACCOUNT OF THE BLACK STEM RUST OF GRAINS 
June 3, 1937. 
Notice is hereby given that a public conference will be held by the Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine in the auditorium of the South Building 
of the Department of Agriculture, Independence Avenue (B Street) SW., Wash- 
ington, D. C, at 10 a. m., on July 14, 1937, at which consideration will be 
given to the advisability of revising quarantine no. 38 on account of the black 
stem rust of grains. The proposal to be considered is that of adding the States 
of Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia to the list of States 
designated as protected in the quarantine and thereby regulating the interstate 
movement into or between such States of all barberry and Mahonia plants ex- 
cept the Japanese barberry { Berber is thiinhergii) and its rust-immune varieties. 
Any person interested in the revision under consideration may appear at this 
public conference and be heard either in person or by attorney. 
Lee a. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, May 10, 1937. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir: Your attention is invited to the inclosed copy of the latest 
revision of quarantine no. 48 of the United States Department of Agriculture 
(effective Mar. 1, 1937), extending the area and modifying the regulations in 
