1934] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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This consolidation, which goes into effect July 1, Secretary Wallace points 
out, will permit greater economy of administration in the Department's search 
for better methods of insect control and in the regulatory work necessary 
to prevent the spread of plant pests and diseases. It also insures better co- 
ordination and more effective direction of the various parallel lines of research 
and control activities. 
Lee A. Strong, Chief of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine from December 1, 
1929, to October 1, 1933, and since then Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, 
has been appointed Chief of the new bureau. S. A. Rohwer, now assistant 
chief of the Bureau of Entomology, and Avery S. Hoyt, now assistant chief 
of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine, will be assistant chiefs of the new bureau. 
F. H. Spencer will be business manager. Karl F. Kellerman, formerly associate 
chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, will have charge of the division devoted 
to the eradication and control of citrus canker, phony peach disease, Dutch 
elm disease, white pine blister rust, and the stem rust of grains. 
Research in the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine will cover 
studies on the life history and habits of beneficial as well as injurious insects, 
with a view to developing practical methods for destroying injurious insects 
and promoting the increase and spread of those found beneficial. 
The regulatory work, under the authority of the Federal Plant Quarantine 
Act, will include the enforcement of quarantines and restrictive measures to 
prevent the entry into, or the spread within, the United States of dangerous 
plant diseases and insect pests. 
Under the new arrangement the different lines of work on related subjects, 
whether regulatory or research, are brought together in a single unit. The 
work of collection, introduction, and clearing through quarantine of foreign 
parasites for the control of injurious insect pests established in the United 
States has been placed in a single division under the direction of C. P. Clausen. 
The fundamental investigations to develop control methods by the use of 
insecticides, attractants, and repellents have been brought together in the 
Division of Control Investigations, under Lon A. Hawkins. The Division of 
Household and Stored Product Insects, in the Bureau of Entomology, as such, 
has been discontinued, and the work assigned to other divisions. Studies on 
insects attacking stored products have been transferred to the divisions con- 
cerned with the insects that infest the same crops in the field. For example, 
investigations on dried fruit insects will be conducted by the Division of Fruit 
Insects. As the insects found in stored products are often hangovers from 
field infestations, such an arrangement is designed to further simplify and 
expedite the new Bureau's work. The investigations on household insects 
formerly assigned to this division have been transferred to the Division of 
Insects Affecting Man and Animals, under the direction of F. C. Bishopp, who 
has long been in charge of that division. All informational work has been 
brought together with the Insect Pest Survey and placed in the Division of 
Insect Pest Survey and Information, under the leadership of J. A. Hyslop. 
The other research divisions of the Bureau of Entomology, the regulatory 
divisions of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine, and the field stations of both 
bureaus will remain about as they were. 
B.P.Q.-357, Supplement No. 1 April 25, 1934. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA 
The decree of February 20, 1934, revokes that of May 11, 1927, which pro- 
hibited the importation of corn (Zea mays) and broomcorn (Andropogon sor- 
ghum var. technicus) into that country. The text, in translation, follows: 
Article 1. The decree of May 11, 1927 (see par. 1, p. 8, B.P.Q.-357), whereby 
the importation of corn and broomcorn was prohibited, is hereby revoked, and 
the portion (par. 2, p. 8, B.P.Q.-357) relating to the disinfection which was 
required for other seeds mentioned in that decree, becomes ineffective. 
Art. 2. The importation is authorized of corn and sorghum only (Johnson 
grass, Andropogon halepensis, being excluded), if clean and free from any plant 
refuse, it being necessary when that condition is not fulfilled to disinfect the 
shipment with hydrocyanic acid gas, carbon disuiphide, or other similar prod- 
