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(b) Except as .specified above, all soil, earth, sand, clay, peat, compost, and 
manure, whether moved independent of, or in connection with or attached to 
nursery stock, plants, products, articles, or things, shall remain under the restric- 
tions of § 301.72-3 throughout the year. 
This revision supersedes all previous issues of circular B. E. P. Q. 485. 
Done at Washington, D. C, this 21st day of April 1941. 
[seal] Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief of Bureau. 
[Filed with the Division of the Federal Register April 24, 1941, 11 : 41 a. in. : 6 F. R. f 
2119.] 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
LEE A. STRONG DIES IN ARIZONA 
(Press notice) 
June 2, 1941. 
The United States Department of Agriculture today (June 2) received word of 
the death this morning of Dr. Lee A. Strong, chief of the Bureau of Entomology 
and Plant Quarantine, in Tucson, Ariz. Doctor Strong had been chief of the 
Bureau from the time it was created, in 1934, by the consolidation of the Bureau 
of Entomology and the Bureau of Plant Quarantine. Previous to that he had 
been chief of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine and later chief of the Bureau of 
Entomology. For 30 years he fought the pests that attack plants and animals, 
and cause annual losses of many millions of dollars in the United States. 
Informed of Doctor Strong's death, Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard 
said, "In the death of Lee Strong the Department has lost one of its best bureau 
chiefs. He was a natural leader, a good administrator, and a fine servant of the 
people of the United States." 
Doctor Strong was born in Russell, Iowa, in 1886, but spent much of his early 
life in California. There he was connected with plant quarantine and inspection 
work for the State Department of Agriculture from 1910 to 1929, except for a 
year overseas, in 1918-19. with the 537th Engineers, U. S. Army, and for two 
years (1923-1925), when he was in charge of port inspection for the Federal 
Horticultural Board of the United States Department of Agriculture in Wash- 
ington, D. C. From 1925 to 1929 he was Assistant Director of the California 
Department of Agriculture. 
In 1929 Doctor Strong accepted an appointment as chief of the Plant Quaran- 
tine and Control Administration, later reorganized as the Bureau of Plant 
Quarantine, of the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1933, upon 
the retirement of C. L. Marlatt, he became chief of the Bureau of Entomology, 
and a year later, when the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine was 
set up, he was made chief of the consolidated bureau, a position which he held 
until his death. 
Doctor Strong took a prominent part in the preliminary work that led to the 
organization of the National Plant Board and served as its chairman from 1924 
to 1929. He was a member of the American Association of Economic Entomolo- 
gists, being president in 1935 ; of the Entomological Society of Washington ; and 
of the Cosmos Club. In 1938 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Science from Louisiana State University. 
Surviving Doctor Strong are his wife, Mrs. Edith Strong, and three children, 
Madeline, Lee A., Jr., and Helen. 
Secretary Wickard said that A. S. Hoyt. who has been acting chief of the 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine during Doctor String's illness, will 
continue in that capacity. 
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