10 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AXD PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
§ 301.48-5 by refrigerator cars must be fumigated iu the car, when such action is 
deemed necessary by the inspector, and doors and hatches of the cars must be 
closed or screened. 
Minor changes have also been made in §§ 301.48-6, 7, 10, 12, and 13. 
This revision supersedes the twelfth revision of Notice of Quarantine No. 
48, approved March 1, 1937, and the seventeenth revision of the rules and 
regulations supplemental thereto, as amended effective May 27, 1940. 
summary 
Unless a certificate has been issued, these regulations as now revised, pro- 
hibit the interstate movement between June 15 and October 15 (between June 
1 and October 15 in the case of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Va.) of 
all fruits and vegetables by refrigerator car, motortruck, or in lot shipments of 
three pieces or more by common carrier, from the District of Columbia, the 
State of Delaware, and parts of Maryland. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Vir- 
ginia, as defined in § 301.48-5. to or through points outside the regulated areas 
as defined in § 301.48-3. 
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 
certificate has been secured. Cut flowers are restricted interstate movement 
onlv between June 15 and October 15 inclusive. For details and exceptions 
see'§§ 301.48-6 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 Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York. Ohio, Pennsylvania, 
Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, as described in § 301.48-3. 
These regulations also specify the conditions governing the protection of re- 
stricted articles from infestation while in transit ( § 301.48-8 ) , require thorough 
cleaning of vehicles, containers, and refrigerator cars which have been used iu 
transporting restricted products (§§ 301.48-5 and 13), and provide other safe- 
guards and conditions as specified in the regulations. 
To secure permits and certificates, address the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine, 266 Glen wood Avenue, Bloomfield, N. J., or the nearest branch 
office listed in the appendix. 
DETERMINATION OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE 
The Secretary of Agriculture, having determined that it was necessary to 
quarantine the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massa- 
chusetts, 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 japonica Newni.), a 
dangerous insect new to and not theretofore widely prevalent or distributed 
within and throughout the United States, and having given the public hearing 
required by law, promulgated the Twelfth Revision of Notice of Quarantine 
301.48, Part 301, Chapter III, Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, and rules 
and regulations supplemental thereto, governing the movement of (1) fruits 
and vegetables ; (2) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock, and other 
plants; and (3) sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure, from any of the 
above-named States or the District of Columbia, into or through any other 
State or Territory or District of the United States, §§ 301.48-1 to 14, inclusive, 
Part 301, Chapter III, Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations [B. E. P. Q.-Q., 48, 
effective on and after March 1, 1937]. 
For the reason that it appears that the provisions of the quarantine may 
be safely extended to authorize the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine to modify, by making less stringent, the requirements of 
the rules and regulations supplemental to the said Notice of Quarantine, I 
have further determined that the said quarantine should be revised. I have 
further determined that it is necessary to revise the regulations for the pur- 
pose of extending the regulated areas owing to the discovery of substantial 
infestations of the Japanese beetle in additional sections, and to make other 
modifications. 
