4 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO DUTCH ELM DISEASE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 71) 
EXTEND ELM DISEASE CONTROL 
(Press notice) 
March 31, 1936. 
Extension of the Dutch elm disease quarantine to include 26 new townships 
in New Jersey and 13 new towns in Now York was announced today (Mar. SI) 
by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. 
This extension, effective April 1, was made necessary by the finding in the 
new areas of a small number of trees which had become diseased. Any recent 
spread of Dutch elm disease which may have occurred cannot be definitely 
known until scouting starts again as the trees come into leaf, according to Lee 
A. Strong, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, who is in 
charge of the Department's campaign to save the American elm from destruction 
by this disease. 
The following territory is added to the area previously regulated: 
New Townships of Bethlehem, Clinton. Franklin. Lebanon, Read- 
• n, Tewksbuiy, and Union, in Hunterdon County ; township of Madison, in 
Middlesex County; townships of Holmdol, Matawan, and Raritan, in Monmouth 
Comity: townships of Mount Olive and Washington, in Morris County; town- 
ships of Hardystown, Lafayette, Sparta, Vernon, and Wantage, in Sussex 
County: townships of Allamuchy, Franklin, Hope, Independence, Mansfield, 
Oxford. Washington, and White, in Warren County. 
Xcw York. — Towns of Blooming Grove, Chester, Highland, Monroe, Tuxedo, 
Warwick, and Woodbury, in Orange County: towns of OarmeL Phillipstown, 
Putnam Valley, and South East, in Putnam County; towns of Lewisboro and 
North Sa'em. in Westchester County. 
The area previously regulated included the following cities, towns, boroughs, 
or other political subdivisions: 
Connecticut. — Towns of Darien, Fairfield, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, 
Stamford, and Wcstport, in Fairfield County. 
\< w Jcr.sc y.—i 'ounties of Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Somerset, and 
Union ; townships of Princeton and West Windsor, and the city of Princeton, in 
Mercer County ; townships of East Brunswick, Lincoln, Milltown, North Bruns- 
wick, Piscataway, Raritan, Roosevelt, Sayreville, South Brunswick, South River, 
and Woodbridge, boroughs of Dunellen. Highland Park, and Metuchen, and cities 
of New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, and South Amboy, in Middlesex County ; town- 
ships of Boonton, Chatham, Chester, Danville, Hanover, Jefferson, Mendham, 
Montville, Morris. Passaic, Pequannock, Randolph, Rockaway, and Roxbury, 
boroughs of Dover, Florham Park, and Mendham, and cities of Madison and 
MorrMown, in Morris County. 
New York. — Counties of Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, 
and Rockland ; towns of Bedford, Cortlandt, East Chester, Greenburg, Harrison, 
Mamaroneck, Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, New Castle, New Rochelle, North 
Castle, Ossining, Pelham, Poundridge, Rye, Scarsdale, Somers, White Plains, 
Yonkers, and Yorktown, in Westchester County. 
MODIFICATION OF DUTCH ELM DISEASE QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
The following modification of the Dutch elm disease quarantine regulations 
adds to the area designated as regulated, 7 townships in Hunterdon County ; 
1 township in Middlesex County: 3 townships in Monmouth County; 2 townships 
in Morris County ; 5 townships in Sussex County, and 8 townships in Warren 
County, in t lie State of New Jersey. It also adds 7 towns in Orange County; 4 
towns in Putnam County, and 2 towns in Westchester County, N. Y. This 
action was taken on the basis of intensive inspections made throughout the year 
which disclosed infections in areas contiguous to the previously regulated area. 
A very S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
