BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE / 
There was a material spread of this insect beyond the quarantine line in Maine 
and New Hampshire, even reaching into five towns along the Connecticut River 
in Vermont. 
THE SATIN MOTH 
The satin moth (Stilpnotia salicis L.) was not so abundant during the summer 
of 1932 in the older infested areas as it had been during some of the previous 
seasons. However, severe defoliation of shade trees occurred in many places. 
Funds did not permit a thorough scouting of towns to determine the spread of 
this insect, and it was found in onty two towns beyond the quarantined area. 
Fourteen violations of the satin-moth quarantine were reported and investigated 
during the year. 
EUROPEAN CORN-BORER QUARANTINE AND CONTROL 
GENERAL STATUS 
Lack of adequate appropriated funds with which effectively to enforce the 
quarantine regulations on account of the European corn borer (Pyrausta nubilalis 
Hubn.) led to revocation of Notice of Quarantine No. 43, revised, on July 15, 
1932. The Bureau's estimate for corn-borer quarantine and control during the 
1933 fiscal year amounted to $795,000, or $155,000 less than the previous year's 
appropriation. As finally passed, the agricultural appropriation bill contained 
an item of $295,000 for maintenance of this work. It had been contemplated by 
the House Committee on Appropriations that the work could be continued with 
the reduced funds by eliminating road-patrol activities. Thorough considera- 
tion of the situation by Department officials indicated that the sum allotted was 
entirely inadequate to prevent movement via common carriers or motor vehicles 
of corn from infested to noninfested sections, and to carry out other protective 
measures which uninfested States might reasonably expect under a continuance 
of Federal quarantine. There remained no alternative but to revoke the quar- 
antine and thus give uninfested States an opportunity to enforce such pro- 
tective measures as they deemed necessary. Numerous quarantines paralleling 
the Federal regulations and restricting intrastate movement of affected products 
within infested States were also revoked following the Federal action. 
In order that States outside the infested zone might have information upon 
which to base quarantine action, scouting operations along the periphery of the 
previously regulated territory were conducted as in former years. 
Within a few days of the Department's announcement of the lifting of the 
Federal corn-borer quarantine, regulatory officials of four Corn Belt States met 
at Kansas City, Mo., for the purpose of considering uniform State quarantine 
action. State corn-borer quarantines and embargoes followed in quick succes- 
sion after the Secretary's announcement of cancelation of the restrictions. A 
complete embargo on the movement of articles restricted in the revoked quaran- 
tine was issued by the State of Georgia coeffective with revocation of the Federal 
regulations. Louisiana followed on July 26 with a similar embargo, and during 
August, September, and October embargoes affecting the same articles were issued 
by Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado. In November, 
Wyoming issued a still stricter embargo covering articles additional to those 
included in canceled Federal regulations. Indiana, as yet known to be infested 
only with the 1 -generation strain of the borer, in May 1933 promulgated a quar- 
antine against those States infested with the 2-generation strain of the insect. 
Comparatively uniform restrictive quarantines were issued during July and 
August by the appropriate State officials of Illinois, [owa, Kansas, Mississippi, 
Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Similar action by South Carolina followed 
in October. Under these; quarantines no distinction is made between tin 
tions infested with the 2-generation strain and those infested with the [-genera- 
tion type of the insect. In addition, the restrictions in mos1 cases apply bo a 
Class of articles exempt from the previously existing Federal regulations. These 
Slate quarantines admit certain quarantined products either when so manufac- 
tured or processed as to eliminate the c< rn borei or when inspected and certified 
by authorized State or Federal inspectors. 
State quarantines under which State certification of restricted articles is accept- 
able and which contain special provisions no* found in other quarantine groups 
were issued on various dates from July to October by Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, 
Kent iick j , and Tennessee. 
Each of the State embargoes or quarantine order- designates the following 
States as infested: Connecticut, Indiana, Main.. Ma chusetts. Michigan, New 
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island. Vermont, 
