100 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
to bring under regulation parts of Litchfield and New Haven Counties, Conn., 
Columbia and Ulster Counties, N. Y., and the entire county of Dutchess, N. Y., 
and to extend area formerly under regulation in one county in Connecticut, two 
in New York, and five in New Jersey. Additional restrictions have been placed 
by this amendment on the movement of elm material from nonregulated area 
through regulated area to another nonregulated area. Copies of the amendment 
may be obtained from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United 
States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[The above notice was published in the following newspapers : The Times, Hartford, 
Conn., September 14, 1939 ; the News, Newark, N. J.. September 15, 1939 ; the Times, 
New York, N. Y., September 15, 1939.] 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, September 15, 1939. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir: Your attention is invited to the enclosed copy of a revision of 
plant quarantine Order No. 71 of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
on account of the Dutch elm disease, by which you will please be governed. This 
revision, effective September 11, 1939, extends the quarantined area. See para- 
graph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO FRUIT AND VEGETABLE 
QUARANTINE (NO. 56) 
B. E. P. Q. 501 (supersedes B. P. Q. 344). 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS; CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE ENTRY OF ACORNS 
AND CHESTNUTS 
August 21, 1939. 
The importation of acorns and chestnuts into the United States for pur- 
poses other than propagation, from all foreign countries and localities, except 
Canada, is authorized under permit under the provisions of Quarantine No. 
56 (Fruit and Vegetable Quarantine) (sec. 319.56) as follows: 
Authorized ports of entry: Permits are issued on any port in the United 
States where this Bureau maintains inspection service in the enforcement of 
foreign plant quarantines. 
Inspection: AH shipments are subject to inspection as a condition of entry. 
Freedom from living stages of injurious insects : Shipments shall be free of 
living stages of injurious insects including the European codling moth, Las- 
peyresia (Carpocapsa) splendana, and chestnut weevils, Balaninus spp., as a 
condition of release. 
Infested shipments: A shipment found to be infested with living stages of 
injurious insects shall be immediately destroyed unless in the judgment of 
the inspector it can be disposed of under adequate safeguards as the inspec- 
tor may require in regard to handling, routing, etc., in one of the following 
ways : 
1. Immediate exportation. 
2. Treatment at the first port of arrival. 
3. Shipment from a port of arrival where no treatment facilities are avail- 
able to a port where such facilities are available. 
Approved treating plants Shipments required to be treated as a condition 
of entry shall be treated under the supervision of an inspector of the Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine at plants approved for the purpose by 
this Bureau. Approved plants are at present located at New York, San Pedro 
(Los Angeles), San Francisco, and Seattle. 
