9g BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
QUARANTINE AND OTHER OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO DUTCH ELM DISEASE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 71) 
DUTCH ELM DISEASE QUARANTINE EXTENDED 
[Press notice] 
September 7, 1939. 
The areas regulated under the Dutch elm disease quarantine in Connecticut, 
New Jersey, and New York have been extended to include additional area 
found infected in a recent systematic survey, the United States Department of 
Agriculture announced today. Under an amendment to the quarantine regula- 
tions, effective September 11, 1939, there are placed under regulation for the 
first time areas in Litchfield and New Haven Counties, Conn., in Columbia and 
Ulster Counties, N. Y., and the entire county of Dutchess, in New York. 
Extensions have also been made, in this amendment, to the regulated areas 
in one county in Connecticut, two in New York, and five in New Jersey. 
The Federal embargo on the movement of elm material from regulated areas 
is continued, and the new restrictions also control the movement of such ma- 
terial from nonregulated area through regulated area during the period of 
annual flight of the elm bark beetle. 
The Dutch elm disease has been discovered in a number of townships in 
Bucks and Northampton Counties, Pa. The State has placed an embargo on 
the movement of elm material therefrom and Federal quarantine action with 
respect to this area is accordingly withheld at this time. 
MODIFICATION OF DUTCH ELM DISEASE QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
This modification of the Dutch elm disease quarantine regulations brings 
under regulation for the first time area in Litchfield and New Haven Counties, 
Conn., Columbia and Ulster Counties, N. Y., and the entire county of Dutchess 
in New York. Extensions have been made to area formerly under regulation 
in one county in Connecticut, two in New York, and five in New Jersey, placing 
the entire counties of Hunterdon and Mercer, N. J., and Putnam, N. Y., within 
regulated area. 
The embargo with reference to the interstate movement of elm material from 
the regulated areas is continued and restrictions have been added to limit the 
movement of such material from nonregulated area through regulated areas 
to the winter months and then only on a through bill of lading. This action 
is taken in order to control the movement of elm material during the annual 
flight period of the elm bark beetle. 
The Dutch elm disease has been discovered in a number of townships in 
Bucks and Northampton Counties. Pa. The State has placed an embargo on 
the movement of elm material therefrom and Federal quarantine action is 
withheld, thereby continuing the embargo on the movement of sources of infec- 
tion from heavily infected sections of New Jersey into Pennsylvania. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE 
OF QUARANTINE NO. 71 
[Approved September 6, 1939 ; effective September 11, 1939] 
Under authority conferred by 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), it is ordered that regulations 3 and 5 (sees. 301.71-3 and 
5) of the rules and regulations supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 71 
(sec. 301.71), on account of the Dutch elm disease, which were, promulgated on 
February 20, 1935, are hereby amended to read as follows: 
