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cleaning and loading. Onions and potatoes must be fumigated in the car when 
such action is deemed necessary by the inspector, and doors and hatches of the 
cars must be closed or screened. For other details and exceptions see 
regulation 5. 
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. Portions of plants and cut flowers are re- 
stricted interstate movement only between June 15 and October 15, inclusive. 
For details and exceptions see regulations 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 the States of Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. The boundaries are 
shown in regulation 3. 
These regulations also place certain restrictions to protect restricted articles 
from infestation while in transit, require thorough cleaning of vehicles and 
containers which have been used in transporting restricted products, and 
provide other safeguards and conditions as specified in regulations 8 to 13> 
inclusive. 
To secure permits and certificates, address the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine, 266 Glenwood Avenue, Bloomfield, N. J., or the nearest 
branch office listed in the appendix. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 48 (TWELFTH REVISION) 
[Approved March 1, 1937; effective March 1, 1937] 
I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, have determined that it is neces- 
sary to quarantine the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, 
Massachusetts, 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 japoniea 
Newm.), a dangerous insect new to and not heretofore widely prevalent or 
distributed within and throughout the United States. 
Now, therefore, under authority conferred by section 8 of the Plant Quaran- 
tine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress 
approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), and having duly given the public 
hearing required thereby, I do quarantine the said States of Connecticut, Dela- 
ware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New 
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, 
and the District of Columbia, effective on and after March 1, 1937. Hereafter, 
under the authority of said act of August 20, 1912, amended as aforesaid (1) 
fruits and vegetables; (2) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock, and 
other plants; and (3) sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure shall not be 
shipped, offered for shipment to a common carrier, received for transportation 
or transported by a common carrier, or carried, transported, moved or allowed 
to be moved from any of said quarantined States or District into or through 
any other State or Territory or District of the United States in manner or 
method or under conditions other than those prescribed in the rules and regu- 
lations hereinafter made and amendments thereto: Provided, That the re- 
strictions of this quarantine and of the rules and regulations supplemental 
thereto may be limited to the areas in a quarantined State now, or which 
may hereafter be, designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as regulated 
areas when, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, the enforcement 
of the aforesaid rules and regulations as to such regulated areas shall be 
adequate to prevent the spread of the Japanese beetle: Provided further, 
That such limitations shall be conditioned upon the said State providing for 
and enforcing such control measures with respect to such regulated areas as, in 
the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, shall be deemed adequate to 
prevent the spread of the Japanese beetle therefrom to other parts of the State: 
And provided further, That certain articles classed as restricted herein may, 
because of the nature of their growth or production or their manufactured 
or processed condition, be exempted by administrative instructions issued by 
