250 BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct .-Dec. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
MAY EXTEND BEETLE QUARANTINE TO MAINE AND WEST VIRGINIA 
(Press notice) 
October 9, 1933. 
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has announced a public hearing at Wash- 
ington October 24, to consider the advisability of extending the Japanese beetle 
quarantine to tlie States of Maine and West Virginia. The hearing will be 
before the officials of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine, in the auditorium of 
the Interior Department Building, Eighteenth and F Streets NW., at 10 a.m. 
The spread of the Japanese beetle during the last year was less than in 
recent seasons, according to the records of the Department. Many traps were 
placed throughout the Southeastern and Central States. Although many of 
these traps captured from 1 to 3 or 4 beetles, the evidence, says the Bureau, 
not indicate that these captures represent established infestations. 
Apparent exceptions occur in the case of Portland and Waterville, Maine, 
and Keyser, W.Va. At Portland, Maine, 52 Japanese beetles were captured 
during the season, and at Waterville, 139 beetles. At Keyser, W.Va.. 25 
beetles are reported. 
In the quarantined States but outside the regulated areas, the points at 
which 10 or more beetles were captured include Bethesda, Bladensburg, Chevy 
Chase, Hyattsyille, Riverdale, Silver Spring, and Hurlock. Md. All of these 
are located in the general area between Washington and Baltimore, except 
Hurlock, which is on the Eastern Shore. At the hearing October 24, consider- 
ation will also be given to the extension of the regulated area in Maryland 
to cover the new points of infestation. The only Japanese beetles captured 
outside the regulated areas in the other quarantined States proved to number 
from only 1 to 7 in each locality except at Salamanca, N. Y., where 12 beetles 
were found, and at Erie, Pa., where a vigorous eradication campaign to 
exterminate an established infestation is in progress. 
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 Maryland, 
New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Virginia. 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF EXTENDING 
THE QUARANTINE ON ACCOUNT OF THE JAPANESE BEETLE TO THE STATES 
OF MAINE AND WEST VIRGINIA 
October 7, 1933. 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that the Japanese beetle (Pop- 
illia japonica Newm.). a dangerous insect new to and not heretofore widely 
prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United States, which is 
known to exist in portions of the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, 
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey. New York. Pennsylvania, Rhode 
Island, Vermont, and Virginia, and in the District of Columbia, has recently 
been discovered also in the States of Maine and West Virginia. It appears 
necessary, therefore, to consider the advisability of revising the quarantine 
on account of this pest to include the States of Maine and West Virginia within 
the quarantined area and of restricting or prohibiting the movement from those 
States or from any infested districts determined therein of (1) fruits and 
vegetables; ('2) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock, and other plants; 
and (3) sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure. 
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 Plant Quarantine, in the auditorium of the Interior Department 
Building. Eighteenth and F Streets NW., Washington, D.C., at 10 a.m., on 
October 24. 103:5. in order that any person interested in the proposed revision 
of the quarantine may appear and be heard either in person or by attorney. 
II. A. Wallace. 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
