148 BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE [January-March, 
officials. Since that time, however, the disease has been found scatteringly 
through extensive areas, says Mr. Strong, although there are no locations 
outside of Georgia and Alabama where infection has been present a sufficient 
Length of time to cause serious loss in commercial orchards. The fuuds 
available to the Department for quarantine activities have not been increased 
and funds for eradication activities have been reduced. The widely separated 
infections in some of the States concerned have made the enforcement of intra- 
state-quarantine regulations by these States impracticable, thereby complicating 
the problem of maintaining Federal control of interstate shipments. 
A- its research work lias developed, the Bureau of Plant Industry has been 
Increasingly impressed with the importance and potential seriousness of the 
phony-peach disease to the peach industry, and to the limit of its ability 
will endeavor to encourage prompt eradication activities wherever infected 
trees are found. For the immediate future, however, eradication must depend 
largely on the cooperative activities of the States. 
Apparently the disease is transmitted from one tree to another only through 
the roots, investigation by the Bureau of Plant Industry points so strongly 
to the peach-root borer as the carrier of the disease that it seems reasonable 
to believe that it will be possible to reduce the danger of spreading the disease 
by preventing the movement of borer-infested trees from nurseries in areas 
infested by the peach borer. 
State inspection officials should undertake the critical inspection of nursery 
stock budded on peach, nectarine, apricot, or almond stock, either at digging 
time or at any other times that will insure that no borer-infested stock leaves 
the nursery. This should give more effective protection than would be possible 
by continuation and extension of the present type of Federal quarantine. 
Moreover, the Federal quarantine is considered less essential to the present 
retarded program of phony-peach eradication that it was to the original plan 
of intensive and rapid eradication. 
The revocation of the quarantine does not mean the abandonment of interest 
in this disease, says Mr. Strong. The Bureau of Plant Quarantine will plan 
operate, insofar as funds and facilities permit, in the establishment and 
execution of uniform and efficient methods of inspection and certification of 
nursery stock as to freedom from borer injury. 
NOTICE OF LIFTING OF QUARANTINE NO. 67— PHONY-PEACH DISEASE 
QUARANTINE 
(Effective on and after Mar. 1, 1933) 
I. Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, under authority conferred by 
the Plant Quarantine Act, approved August 20. 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended 
by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), do hereby 
remove and revoke the quarantine placed by Notice of Quarantine No. 67 
upon the entire States of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South 
Carolina, and parts of the States of Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, 
Tennessee, and Texas, and do also hereby revoke the rules and regulations 
supplemental thereto, such removal and revocation to take effect on March 
i. lit:;;:. 
Done in the District of Columbia, this 3d day of February, 1933. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal.] Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Copies of abovr notice were sent to all common carriers doing business in or through 
the quarantined area.] 
Instructions to Postmasters — Removal of Quarantine on Account of the 
Phony Peach Disease 
Post OFFICE DEPARTMENT, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, B.C.. March 16, Vj.ui. 
Quarantine Order No. 67 on account <»t' the phony-peach disease, quarantining 
the States of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, and 
parts of the States of Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina. Tennessee, 
and Texas, has been revoked. 
