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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Table 5. — Certification of cut flowers and plants in 2-generation area (eastern 
New England), January 1 to June 30. 1929 
Month 
Cut 
flowers 
and entire 
plants 
certified 
Beans, 
celery, 
beets, and 
rhubarb 1 
\ Number 
January ; 5, 124 
February 25,800 
March ■ 17,937 
April 20,203 
Bushels 




Month 
May 
June 
Total 
Cut 
flowers 
and entire 
plants 
certified 
Number 
20,548 
19, 194 
108, 806 
Beans, 
celery, 
beets, and 
rhubarb J 
Bushels 

M,560 
2 4,560 
1 Not restricted Jan. 1 to May 31, inclusive. 
1 In addition to 2,632 celery plants, and 23 rhubarb plants. 
LOCAL ERADICATION MEASURES 
Last season isolated European corn-borer infestations were discovered at 
two or three points in western New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. In 
order to delay the spread of the borers into these localities, the extension of 
the regulated area was limited in such a manner as to prevent the movement 
of infested products to those points, and an effort has been made to eradicate 
the infestation completely from these localities by means of burning over the 
infested fields with fuel oil. The burning operations were begun in New Jersey 
on April 17 and completed during May. Prior to that time, similar work had 
been carried out in the outskirts of Brooklyn and on Staten Island, N. Y., as 
control measures to prevent spread into New Jersey. 
STATE LEGISLATION 
The Legislature of Michigan, on April 23, 1929, repealed the State corn borer 
enforcement act in the belief that farmers are now able to carry out effective 
control measures without State aid. 
EXTENT OF REGULATED AREAS 
Recent calculations as to the amount of territory now infested by the 
European corn borer in the United States shows that more than 175,000 square 
miles in 13 States are involved in infestations. The regulated area totals 
194,580.94 square miles, practically all of which has been reached by the borer 
with the exception of most of the Upper and about one-third of the Lower 
Peninsula of Michigan. (See S. R. A. No. 98.) The areas at present re- 
stricted under the Federal quarantine regulations on account of this pest are 
shown in Table 6. 
Table 6. — Areas regulated on account of the European corn borer under the 
quarantine amendment approved February 25, 1929 
l-generation area: Square miles 
New Hampshire 128.00 
Vermont 4, 012. 00 
Massachusetts 2, 243. 25 
Connecticut 42. 73 
New Jersey 71. 20 
New York 49, 106. 00 ' 
27 
Ohio 2-. i 
1 ndiana 10, 340. 00 
Michigan 57,980.00 
West Virginia 516.00 
Total 181.408 12 
2-generation area: 
Maine 
NOT Hampshire. . . 
Musachusel I 
Rhode Island 
Connecticut 
Fishers Island, N. V 
rotal. 
Square miles 
1,880.83 
4. 659. 00 
4,567.93 
1,248.00 
1.00S.S8 
8.00 
18.172.42 
