1941] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Preparation of plants. — The treatment is to be applied to plants with bare 
roots or in 14-inch pots or smaller, or in soil balls not larger than 14 inches 
in diameter nor thicker than 14 inches when not spherical. The soil should 
not be puddled or saturated and must be in a condition which in the judgment 
of the inspector is suitable for fumigation. The plants should be stacked on 
racks or separated so that the gas can have access to both top and bottom 
surfaces of pots or soil balls. While not essential that the balls be completely 
separated from each other they should not be jammed tightly together. Treat- 
ments 2 and 3 may be employed in fumigating packaged plants prepared in 
a manner satisfactory to the inspector. 
Varieties of plants. — The list of plants, including greenhouse, perennial, and 
nursery-stock types treated experimentally, is subject to continual expansion 
and, moreover, is too great to include in these instructions. 
The schedule for the fumigation of strawberry plants as specified in sub- 
section (1) (5) (ii) of § 301.48b [p. 14 of the mimeographed edition of circular 
B. E. P. Q. 499] remains the same as heretofore. 
This supplement supersedes Supplement No. 1, revised, dated April 11, 1941. 
Done at Washington, D. C, this 6th day of August 1941. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief. 
TFiled with the Division of the Federal Register August 12, 1941, 1 : 24 p. m. ; 6 F. R. 
4055.] 
BEETLE RESTRICTIONS ON VEGETABLE AND FRUIT SHIPMENTS END FOR SEASON 
[Press notice] 
September 8, 1941. 
Restrictions on the movement of fruits and vegetables under the Japanese 
beetle quarantine regulations have been removed for the season by an order 
effective today, the Department of Agriculture announced. Restrictions on 
cut flowers, however, remain in force through October 15. 
Under quarantine regulations, certificates showing freedom from Japanese 
beetle are required until October 16 on interstate shipments of fruits and vege- 
tables of any kind moved via refrigerator car or motortruck from the areas 
of heavy beetle flight. The order, issued by the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine, releases the fruits and vegetables from this requirement 
nearly 5 weeks earlier than is provided in the regulations. 
The areas of heavy flight include Delaware, the District of Columbia, and 
parts of Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. 
Inspection of fruits and vegetables is necessary only during the period when 
the beetles are in active flight, and results of field surveys show that adults 
of the Japanese beetle have decreased to a point where it does not seem ad- 
visable to continue the fruit and vegetable inspection and certification require- 
ment the rest of this season. There is no risk that such products will carry 
the Japanese beetle after the active period, which is now apparently over 
throughout the regulated areas. 
There is still danger, however, that the beetles may be transported in cut 
flowers. Therefore, the restrictions on interstate movement of cut flowers will 
remain in full force through October 15. 
Restrictions on the movement of nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock 
and all other plants (except cut flowers, soil-free aquatic plants, and portions 
of plants without roots and free from soil) are in force throughout the year 
and are not affected by this order. 
B. E. P. Q. 51G. Effective September 8, 1941 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS MODIFYING THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE JAPA- 
NESE BEETLE QUARANTINE BY ADVANCING THE DATE OF TERMINATION OF 
RESTRICTIONS ON FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SHIPMENTS UNDER § 301.48-5 OF THE 
JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE TO SEPTEMBER 8 FOR THE YEAR 1941 
It has been determined that the active period of the Japanese beetle in its 
relation to fruits and vegetables has already ceased for the present season 
and that it is therefore safe to permit the unrestricted movement of fruits 
