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Winston-Salem, 600. One beetle was caught in Milford, Va.. the scene 
of 1 of the 4 first-record infestations in Virginia during the summer 
of 1938. 
SUPPRESSIVE MEASURES 
Soil-treatment programs were carried out in Georgia, Illinois, 
Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Xew York, North Carolina, 
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. 
Field treatments were resumed in Atlanta, Ga., on September 7, and 
35.2 acres received lead arsenate applications. Additional lead ar- 
senate was applied to 15.8 acres between January 29 and February 15. 
In Chicago 143.6 acres were treated between July 1 and October 19. 
Work on 52.8 additional acres was begun on May 22. 
In Indiana, at Fort Wayne. 20.1 acres were treated; at Indianapolis, 
6.5 acres; and at Logansport. 16.1 acres. 
At Louisville. Ky., lead arsenate was applied to 35 acres. 
Approximately 18 acres were treated in Detroit, Mich.: in Dear- 
born 13.5 acres received the lead arsenate treatment, and 1.2 acres 
were treated at Highland Park. 
In St. Louis, Mo., 40.8 acres were treated. 
Nurserymen in the Xewark, N. J., area were responsible for the 
treatment of 1.6 acres in that city. 
Lead arsenate applications at the principal Japanese beetle infesta- 
tions discovered in North Carolina during the last few years were 
started in Greensboro and Winston-Salem on March 27. In Greens- 
boro 69.7 acres were treated, in Winston- Salem 50.4 acres, and in 
Spencer 34.1 acres. Approximately 86 acres were treated at eight 
other North Carolina points, as follows: Charlotte, Durham, East 
Spencer, Elizabeth City, High Point, Raleigh, Sanford, and Wil- 
mington. 
At Marietta, Ohio, treatment was resumed on June 23, and 6 acres 
were treated. At Belpre lead arsenate was applied to 1.5 acres. 
Seventeen acres were sprayed at Ashtabula. Conneaut. and Mentor. 
Field treatments were resumed on October 17 at Erie and Oil City. 
Pa. The work at Erie covered 81.1 acres, and at Oil City 16 acres 
had been treated when the work was completed on Xovember 3. 
At Winchester, Va., 10.2 acres were treated, and at Harrisonburg 
2.1 acres received the treatment. 
A total of 775 acres received the lead arsenate treatment at the 
places named. All the soil-treating projects were sponsored by State, 
city, or other agencies, with the Bureau furnishing the spray equip- 
ment, operators of the trucks, and supervisors to cooperate with the 
men designated by the States to supervise the labor. 
FEDERAL AND STATE REGULATORY MEASURES 
Administrative instructions dated September 19, 1938, advanced 
the date for termination of the restrictions as to fruits and vegetables 
from October 16 to September 20. 
Revised quarantine regulations were issued, effective February 20, 
1939. Nominal extensions were made of regulated areas in Mary- 
land. Xew York, Pennsylvania. Virginia, and Wot Virginia, together 
with a more extensive increase in tin 1 Ohio regulated area. The revi- 
sion also added parts of several counties in Pennsylvania and Mary- 
