104 BUREAU 01- ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Octl-Defc 
New York City. The Pennsylvania infestation alone involves 950 square miles. 
For several years the Department, in cooperation with the States, has main- 
tained a barrier zone along the eastern boundary of New York State and the 
western boundary of New England to prevent the westward spread of this 
pest. The very recent occurrence of the outbreak In Pennsylvania and New 
Xork City as well as the infestation on Long Island and in New Jersey em- 
emphasizes the need of reviewing the present program to determine its effective- 
ness. The conference will also give consideration to the destructiveness of 
this insect and the need of preventing its spread by quarantine action or 
control measures* 
The conference on December 5 will be to consider the present status of the 
Dutch elm disease. This disease was recently discovered in the vicinity of 
New York harbor. It has already destroyed large numbers of elm trees in 
New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. A few trees have also been affected 
by the disease at Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio, and Baltimore, Md., which 
have been eliminated and destroyed and it is hoped that the disease has been 
eliminated from these areas. 
In addition to considering the program of eradicating this disease considera- 
tion will also be given to the desirability and need for promu'gating quarantine 
regulations to prevent its spread by means of elm or parts of elms which may 
be moved from the infected area as nursery stock, logs, lumber, etc., and 
which might carry the disease. 
FRACKER AND GADDIS TO HEAD PLANT-PEST-CONTROL DIVISIONS 
(Tress notice) 
October 15, 1934. 
S. B. Fracker was today designated leader of the Division of Plant Disease 
Control, and Bevy M. Gaddis leader of the Division of Domestic Plant Quar- 
antines, announces Lee A. Strong, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine, United States Department of Agriculture. 
Dr. Fracker has been in charge of the Division of Domestic Plant Quarantines 
for several years. Since the illness of the late Karl F. Kellerman, he has been 
acting in charge of the Division of Plant Disease Control, which deals with 
the control and the prevention of spread of white pine blister rust and black 
stem rust. 
Mr. Gaddis first became associated with the plant-quarantine work of the 
Department in connection with the eradication of the Mediterranean fruit fly 
in Florida. Later he was associated with the work on the eradication of the 
Mexican fruit fly conducted by the Department in Texas. Since last March 
he has been associated with the control of grasshoppers and chinch bugs, and 
had charge of the Minneapolis headquarters for these two control operations. 
P. Q. C. A.-310, Supplement No. 3 Octoger 10, 1934. 
PERU PROHIBITS THE EXPORTATION OF PROPAGATING MATERIAL OF 
ROTENONE-PRODUCING PLANTS 
Peruvian Resolution No. 253, of July 5, 1933, modifies the resolution of May 
23, 1933, by prescribing that dealers in cube or barbasco roots (including the 
genera Apurimacia, Cracca, Jacquinia, Lonchocarpns, Serjunia, and Tcphrosia) 
who may export the said product through the river port of Iquitos are exempted 
from tbe requirement of analysis until the installation in that port of a chemi- 
cal laboratory. Consequently those roots may be exported subject only to the 
authorization of the customs at Iquitos. 
Exporters- are advised to ship the roots in the driest form possible. 
S. A. Rotiwer. 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
