84 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
nor shall any common carrier receive for transportation or transport, nor shall any 
person carry or transport, from any quarantined State or Territory or District 
of the United States, or from any quarantined portion thereof, into or through 
any other State or Territory or District, any class of nursery stock or any 
other class of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds * * * or any 
other article * * * specified in the notice of quarantine * * * in man- 
ner or method or under conditions other than those prescribed by the Secretary 
of Agriculture. It also provides that any person who shall violate any of the 
provisions of this act, or who shall forge, counterfeit, alter, deface, or destroy 
any certificate provided for in this act or in the regulations of the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon Gon- 
viction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment 
not exceeding 1 year, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of 
the court. 
[The foregoing revision was sent to all common carriers doing business in or through the 
quarantined area.] 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
Washington, D. C, September 28, 1938. 
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority 
conferred on him by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended^ 
has promulgated a revision of Notice of Quarantine No. 45 on account of the 
gypsy moth and brown-tail moth, and of regulations supplemental thereto, 
effective September 28, 1938. The principal changes effected by this revision are 
(1) the release from regulated area of certain towns in Coos County, N. H., 
and parts of the counties of Caledonia, Essex, Lamoille, and Rutland, Vt. ; and 
(2) the transfer from lightly infested to generally infested area of part of 
Coos County, N. H., and parts of the Maine counties of Franklin, Kennebec, 
Oxford, Penobscot, Somerset, and Waldo, and parts of the Vermont counties 
of Orange, Windham, and Windsor. 
Copies of the revised quarantine and regulations may be obtained from the 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
Harry L. Brown, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
B. E. P. Q. 475. 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— FUMIGATION OF ONIONS BY METHYL BROMIDE 
AS A CONDITION OF CERTIFICATION OF ONIONS MOVING BY REFRIGERATOR 
CAR FROM THE AREA LISTED IN REGULATION 5 OF QUARANTINE NO. 48 
(Approved July 14, 1938; effective July 19, 1938) 
Regulation 5, section B, paragraph (6) of the Japanese beetle quarantine 
(No. 48) authorizes the issuance of certificates for the interstate movement 
of onions via refrigerator car from the area listed in that regulation to points 
outside the regulated areas between June 15 and October 15 when the onions 
have been fumigated in the car, when deemed necessary in the judgment of 
the inspector and when the doors and hatches of the car have been tightly 
closed or adequately screened under the supervision of an inspector. 
TREATMENT AUTHORIZED 
The treatment described herein has been found to be effective against the 
Japanese beetle and such treatment is authorized as a basis for certification 
of onions moving to points outside the regulated areas between June 15 and 
October 15 via refrigerator car when such treatment is carried out under the 
supervision of an inspector and in a manner satisfactory to him. 
