1933] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 251 
REVISION OF JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE AND REGULATIONS 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
The revision of the Japanese beetle quarantine and regulations which follows, 
brings parts of the States of Maine and West Virginia under restriction and 
modifies the boundaries of the regulated areas in Maryland, New York, and 
Virginia. A modification of the regulations of interest to shippers is the 
exemption from tbe certification requirement of ground, dried, imported peat 
in packages of less than 5 pounds to the package. [Regulation 7 A (1).] 
SUMMARY 
These regulations, as now revised, prohibit the interstate shipment of green 
corn on the cob, beans in the pod, bananas in entire bunches or clusters of 
25 or more, apples, peaches, or berries from the regulated areas to or through 
outside points from June 15 to October 15, inclusive, unless a Federal permit 
or certificate has been secured and is attached to the outside of the container. 
Peaches in shipments of less than 15 pounds are exempt. All commercially 
packed apples are exempt, and also shipments of apples of less than 15 pounds 
to the shipment whether commercially packed or not. For details and other 
exceptions, see regulation 5. 
The regulations also prohibit the interstate shipment of nursery, ornamental, 
and greenhouse stock and all other plants (including parts of plants and cut 
flowers), and sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure, from the regulated 
areas to or through any outside point throughout the year unless a Federal 
permit or certificate has been secured and is attached to the outside of the 
container. For details and exceptions, see regulations 6 and 7. 
The regulated areas include the District of Columbia, the entire States of 
Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, and 
parts of the States of Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Penn- 
sylvania, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. The boundaries are shown in 
regulation 3. 
For other conditions governing the interstate movement of the restricted 
articles and any vehicles and containers transporting them, see regulations 8 
to 13, inclusive. 
To secure permits and certificates, address the Bureau of Plant Quarantine, 
2101 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, Pa., or the nearest branch office listed 
in the appendix. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 48 (TENTH REVISION) 
(Approved Nov. 23, 1933; effective Dec. 1, 1933) 
I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, have determined that it is nec- 
essary to quarantine the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, 
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode 
Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, to 
prevent the spread of the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica Newm.), a danger- 
ous insect new to and not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within 
and throughout the United States. 
Now, therefore, under authority conferred by section 8 of the Plant Quaran- 
tine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress 
approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), and having duly given the public 
hearing required thereby, I do quarantine the said States of Connecticut, Dela- 
ware. Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New 
York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, and 
the District of Columbia, effective on and after December 1, 1933. Hereafter, 
under the authority of said act of August 20, 1912, amended as aforesaid (1) 
fruits and vegetables; (2) nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock, and 
other plants; and (3) sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure shall not 
be shipped, offered for shipment to a common carrier, received for transporta- 
tion or transported by a common carrier, or carried, transported, moved, or 
