2 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AXD PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
quehanna, Lehigh, Northampton. Wayne, Philadelphia, and Monroe in Penn- 
sylvania. The conference will be held before officials of the Bureau of Ento- 
mology and Plant Quarantine in the auditorium of the Department of 
Agriculture, South Building, Independence Avenue and Fourteenth Street, 
S.W., at 10 a. m. Any person interested may appear and be heard, either in 
person or by attorney. 
Since 1935, because of the existence of the Dutch elm disease in New York 
City and surrounding area in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, elm 
trees and parts, and any lumber, boxes, crates, or other containers with elm 
bark attached, have been prohibited movement from the regulated area in 
those States to points outside the area. When in July 1938 the disease was 
found in eastern Pennsylvania adjoining the infected area in New Jersey, a 
quarantine covering the infected area in Pensylvania, paralleling the require- 
ments of the Federal quarantine, was promulgated by the State Department 
of Agriculture. 
It is believed that extension of the area under Federal regulation to cover 
the infected portions of Pennsylvania will facilitate the movement of restricted 
articles between points within the regulated areas of the quarantined States. 
Since the Dutch elm disease was first discovered in this country in 1930, 
incipient infections have been found in limited localities in Maryland, Ohio, 
Indiana, Virginia, and West Virginia. However, prompt destruction of infected 
trees has been so effective that only slight recurrence of the disease has been 
found in some of these localities, and they are therefore not now under 
consideration for Federal quarantine. 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
CHAPTER III. — BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF EXTENDING 
THE DUTCH ELM DISEASE QUARANTINE TO THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA 
March 31, 1941. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that the Dutch elm disease, 
a dangerous plant disease not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within 
and throughout the United States but known to exist in parts of Connecticut, 
New Jersey, and New York, was found in 1938 to extend into Pennsylvania from 
the contiguous area under regulation in the above-named States. While the 
area in question has been under Pennsylvania State quarantine in the mean- 
time, it is necessary to consider the advisability of extending the Federal 
quarantine (§ 301.71 Notice of Quarantine [Notice of Quarantine No. 71]) 
to the State of Pennsylvania for the purpose of placing area in that State 
under regulation and of prohibiting or regulating the interstate movement 
therefrom of the following articles : Elm plants or parts thereof of all species 
of the genus Ulmus, irrespective of whether nursery, forest, or privately grown 
including (1) trees, plants, leaves, twigs, branches, bark, roots, trunks, cuttings, 
and scions of such plants; (2) logs or cordwood of such plants; and (3) 
lumber, crates, boxes, barrels, packing cases, and other containers manufactured 
in whole or in part from such plants (unless the wood is entirely free from 
bark). 
Consideration will also be given to the advisability of prohibiting or regulat- 
ing certain types of movement of restricted commodities interstate from point 
to point within the regulated area. 
Notice is therefore hereby given that, in accordance with Section 8 of the 
Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315; U. S. C. 161), as 
amended, a public hearing will be held before the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine in the auditorium of the Department of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington, D. C, in the South Building, Independence Avenue and 14th Street, 
SW., at 10:00 a. m., April 9, 1941, in order that any person interested in the 
proposed quarantine may appear and be heard either in person or by attorney. 
Paul H. Appleby, 
Under Secretary. 
[Filed with the Division of the Federal Register March 31, 1941, 11:38 a. m. : 
