82 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
regulations; and (4) whether the States in which the Japanese beetle has not 
yet become established are able to provide under State authority, more advan- 
tageously and economically than can be done through Federal action, protection 
against the establishment of new centers of infestation resulting from commercial 
and private shipments of infested products. 
Areas already under quarantine on account of the Japanese beetle include the 
entire States of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode 
Island, the District of Columbia, and parts of the States of Maine, Maryland, 
New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF EITHER REVOK- 
ing the japanese beetle quarantine or extending the quarantine to 
the states of illinois, indiana, michigan, missouri, north carolina, 
ohio, and south carolina 
October 11, 1935. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that the Japanese beetle (Popillia 
japonica Newm.), a dangerous insect not widely prevalent or distributed within 
and throughout the United States, but heretofore known to exist in portions of 
the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, 
Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, 
and West Virginia, and in the District of Columbia, has recently been discovered 
also in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, 
and South Carolina. It appears necessary, therefore, to consider the advisa- 
bility of either (1) revoking the Federal Domestic Quarantine (No. 48) on ac- 
count of the Japanese beetle, or (2) extending this quarantine to the States in 
which the beetle has recently been found and restricting the movement from 
these States or areas therein where the beetle has been discovered of (a) farm, 
garden, and orchard products; (b) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock, 
and other plants; and (c) sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure. 
The purpose of this quarantine has been to retard the spread of the Japanese 
beetle and prevent the establishment of new centers of infestation. Meanwhile 
investigation of methods of control, the dissemination of information as to such 
methods, and the introduction of parasites have been under way. It, therefore, 
seems desirable to call a public hearing to consider (1) whether these investiga- 
tions and other activities have reached such a stage that the Federal quarantine 
restrictions should now be removed; (2) whether the continued spread of the 
Japanese beetle by flight and other means has been so extensive and persistent 
as to render undesirable and inexpedient further expenditures by the Federal 
Government in attempting to retard distribution of the pest in interstate com- 
merce; (3) whether the advantages of maintaining the Federal quarantine re- 
strictions justify the cost of administration and the expense to the shippers of 
complying with the regulations; and (4) whether the States in which the Japa- 
nese beetle has not yet become established are able to provide under State 
authority, more advantageously and economically than can be done through 
Federal action, protection against the establishment of new centers of infesta- 
tion carried by commercial and private shipments of infested products. 
Notice is therefore hereby given that in accordance with the plant quarantine 
act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress ap- 
proved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), a public hearing will be held before 
the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine in the auditorium of the Na- 
tional Museum, Washington, D. C, at 10 a. m. on November 16, 1935, in order 
that any person interested in the proposed revocation or revision of the quarantine 
may appear and be heard either in person or by attorney. 
H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
