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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 65 
Handling of treated soil. — When pots containing lead arsenate are plunged in 
beds or set in frames exposed to possible infestation the soil of these beds or frames 
must previously have been treated with lead arsenate at the rate of 1,500 pounds 
per acre. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF EXTENDING THE 
QUARANTINE ON ACCOUNT OF THE JAPANESE BEETLE TO THE STATES OF MAINE, 
MICHIGAN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NORTH CAROLINA, OHIO, SOUTH CAROLINA, VER- 
MONT, AND WEST VIRGINIA 
September 6, 1932. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that the Japanese beetle (Popillia 
japonica Newm.), a dangerous insect new to and not heretofore widely prevalent 
or distributed within and throughout the United States, which is known to exist 
in portions of the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, 
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia, and in the 
District of Columbia, has recently been discovered also in the States of Maine, 
Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Vermont, and 
West Virginia. It appears necessary therefore to consider the advisability of 
revising the quarantine on account of this pest to include the States of Maine, 
Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Vermont, and 
West Virginia, within the quarantined area and of restricting or prohibiting the 
movement from those States or from any infested districts determined therein of 
(1) farm, garden, and orchard products of all kinds; (2) grain and forage crops of 
all kinds; (3) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock, and all other plants; and 
(4) sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure. 
Notice is therefore hereby given that in accordance with the plant quarantine 
act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved 
March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), a public hearing will be held before the Bureau 
of Plant Quarantine, in the auditorium of the Interior Department Building, 
Eighteenth and F Streets NW., Washington, D. C, at 10 a. m., on October 4, 
1932, in order that any person interested in the proposed revision of the quarantine 
may appear and be heard either in person or by attorney. 
C. F. Marvin, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
REMOVAL OF JAPANESE-BEETLE QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS ON THE INTERSTATE 
MOVEMENT OF FARM PRODUCTS 
Having determined that the active period of the Japanese beetle in its relation 
to farm products has already ceased for the present season and that it is, therefore, 
safe to permit the unrestricted movement of the farm products listed in regulation 
5 of the rules and regulations (tenth revision) supplemental to Notice of Quaran- 
tine No. 48 from the regulated area as defined in regulation 3 of said rules and 
regulations, it is ordered that all restrictions on the interstate movement of the 
articles referred to above are hereby removed on and after September 17, 1932. 
This order advances the termination of the restrictions as to farm products pro- 
vided for in regulation 5 from October 16 to September 17, 1932, and applies to this 
season only. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 14th day of September, 1932. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal.] R. W. Dunlap, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
Note. — The restrictions on the movement of farm products which are termi- 
nated by this order are intended to be in force only during the period when the beetle 
is abundantly present and in active flight. It is recognized that there is no risk 
from the movement of such products after this period has terminated. During 
the past few days the department's inspectors have found no beetles in farm 
products. The action taken, therefore, is merely to terminate the restrictions on 
the movement and thus stop the cost of administration at the earliest possible 
moment. 
There is still danger, however, that the adult beetles may be transported in cut 
flowers. Due to the prevailing cool evenings, the beetles have a tendency to 
crawl down into the flowers for protection. Therefore, the restrictions on the 
