1936] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 173 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO MEXICAN FRUIT WORM 
QUARANTINE (NO. 64) 
TEXAS CITRUS HARVEST EXTENDED TO MARCH 30, 1937 
(Press notice) 
October 23, 1936. 
The season for harvesting Texas citrus fruit under the Mexican fruit fly 
quarantine regulations which apply to Brooks, Willacy, Cameron, and Hidalgo 
Counties has been extended provisionally to include March 31, 1937, the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture announced today. If conditions of reinfestation occur 
or if growers fail to observe sanitary requirements and fail to comply with 
clean-up restrictions it may be necessary to set an earlier date. The harvest- 
ing season normally closes, under the quarantine, in March. 
The extension was announced after consultation with the Texas State De- 
partment of Agriculture and is concurred in by J. E. McDonald, commissioner 
of agriculture. Quarantine officials of the State Department of Agriculture 
of Texas and of the United States Department- of Agriculture anticipate the 
same cooperation heretofore extended in this work by growers and packers 
of the lower Rio Grande Valley. 
The Secretary pointed out that the United States Department of Agriculture 
desires to assist in every possible manner in the movement of the Texas citrus 
crop. At the same time there must be full appreciation of the Department's 
responsibility to prevent the building up of infestation and the spread of the 
fruit fly. The Secretary hopes and believes that the growers will at all times 
realize the importance of full compliance with the clean-up regulations. 
Discovery of any infestation of the Mexican fruit fly, he said, will necessarily 
require immediate eradication and precautionary clean-up measures in any 
area which may be involved. 
B. E. P. Q. 415. 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— AUTHORIZING EXTENSION OF HARVESTING 
SEASON FOR TEXAS CITRUS FRUIT 
(Issued under regulation 7, sec. A, Federal Quarantine No. 64) 
(Issued Oct. 22, 1930 ; effective Oct. 22. 1936) 
Pursuant to regulation 7, section A, of Notice of Quarantine No. 64, the 
Mexican fruit worm quarantine, and it having been shown that such modifica- 
tion of the beginning of the host-free period is desirable and that it will not 
involve increase of risk of propagating the Mexican fruit worm, the State of 
Texas is hereby authorized to extend to the close of March 30. 1937, the harvest- 
ing season for citrus fruit from the regulated area of the State of Texas, as 
established by said Notice of Quarantine, consisting of the counties of Brooks, 
Willacy, Cameron, and Hidalgo ; provided that conditions of infestation or lack 
of observance of sanitary requirements and failure to comply with clean-up 
restrictions do not necessitate the authorization of an earlier closing date. 
The discovery of any infestation of this insect within the regulated area will 
of necessity require immediate eradication and precautionary clean-up measures 
in any area which may be involved. 
[SEAL] R. G. TUGWELL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
MEXICAN FRUIT WORM QUARANTINE REGULATIONS MODIFIED 
(Press notice) 
November 17, 1936. 
The Department of Agriculture announced today a revision of regulation 7 
of the Mexican fruit worm quarantine. This quarantine applies to the counties 
