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In New England the quarantine on vegetables, with the exception of corn, is lifted 
from January first to May thirty-first of each year. 
The quarantine work in New England is conducted mostly thru the Boston 
wholesale vegetable and flower markets, although there are some large growers in 
the quarantined area where inspection must be made at their shipping houses prior 
to movement outside the quarantined area. 
In New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, the quarantine extends only to 
corn, broom corn (including all parts of the stalk), Sudan grass and all sorghums, and 
is operative the entire year. 
Road inspection work is now conducted only in the State of Ohio, on main roads 
running south and west. Inspection is conducted 24 hours a day on eighteen of 
these roads, from June 15th to September 15th, inclusive. 
Close touch is kept with seed corn dealers relative to the shipping of seed corn on 
the cob, which is not permissable in any section under quarantine. 
The first Federal quarantine declared against the European com 
borer was No. 36, effective October 1, 1918. This included only com 
products within the infested area, which at that time was confined en¬ 
tirely within the State of Massachusetts. 
Scouting of the adjacent territory during the season of 1919 developed 
considerable spread and it became apparent that the European corn 
borer had infested many new towns in Massacusetts and extended its 
range to a few towns beyond the State border into New Hampshire. 
Several garden crops were found to be badly infested and it was evident 
that grave danger of spread would result from the transportation of these 
products. 
On March 29, 1920, Quarantine No. 43 became effective; this included 
com and broom corn, celery, green beans in the pod, beets with tops, 
spinach, rhubarb, oat and rye straw as such or when used as packing, 
cut flowers or entire plants of chrysanthemum, aster, cosmos, zinnia, 
hollyhock, and cut flowers or entire plants of gladiolus and dahlia, ex¬ 
cepting bulbs thereof, without stems. 
During the season of 1919, infestations of the European com borer 
were discovered near Albany, New York, and in the western part of 
New York State at Silver Creek, just south of Buffalo. A small in¬ 
festation also was discovered near Girard, Pennsylvania. These new 
areas were included in the quarantine by amendments, effective March 
29, 1920. The immediate operation of the quarantine in all infested 
sections consisted of the issuing of permits for shipment of products, 
including corn, grown outside the quarantined areas. 
A large proportion of the products raised within the quarantined areas 
were for shipment outside the area, it therefore became necessary to 
institute some method of inspection. As regulations provided for 
