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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO MEXICAN FRUITFLY 
QUARANTINE (NO. 64) 
FRUITFLY QUARANTINE MODIFIED TO EXTEND VALENCIA ORANGE HARVEST IN 
TEXAS AREA 
(Press notice) 
January 10, 1941. 
To provide for more orderly marketing of this year's large crop of Valencia 
oranges in Brooks, Willacy, Cameron, and Hidalgo Counties, Tex., the United 
States Department of Agriculture today announced the extension of the harvest 
season to May 31, from April 30, the date set in the Department's Mexican 
fruitfly quarantine regulations. These regulations require a fruit-free period 
between harvests to prevent fruitfly infestations in the lower Rio Grande 
Valley. April 30 had been set as the date when all citrus fruit must be off the 
trees. It remains the date for the closing of the grapefruit harvest season. 
Lee A. Strong, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran- 
tine, said that extension of the harvesting season for Valencia oranges will 
not increase the hazard of fruitfly infestation in the United States. Valencia 
oranges are not preferred hosts of the fruitfly and seldom are infested by it. 
Plant quarantine inspectors will make an extensive inspection of the groves 
during the extra month the oranges are allowed to remain on the trees. Should 
this inspection reveal any fruitfly infestation, Dr. Strong said, steps necessary 
to prevent its dissemination through interstate movement of the fruit will be 
taken. 
The extension was announced after consultation with the Texas State Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, which concurred. Quarantine officials of the State Depart- 
ment of Agriculture of Texas and of the United States Department of Agriculture 
count on the cooperation of growers and packers that has been extended in the 
past. 
B. E. P. Q. 5U2 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
PART 301. DOMESTIC QUARANTINE NOTICES 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS MODIFYING THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE MEXICAN 
FRUITFLY QUARANTINE BY EXTENDING THE HARVESTING SEASON ON VALENCIA 
ORANGES FROM APRIL 30 TO MAY 31, 1941 
§ 301.64-5c Administrative instruction*: modifying the restrictions of the 
Mexican fruitfly quarantine by extending the harvesting season on Valencia 
oranges from April 30 to May 31, 19J f l. Pursuant to the authority conferred 
upon the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine by the third 
proviso of Section 301.64, Chapter III, Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations 
[Notice of Quarantine No. 641. it having been determined by me that a modifica- 
tion may be safely made without increasing the risk of spread of the Mexican 
fruitfly, Section 301.64-3(a) [subsection (a) of regulation 5 supplemental to this 
quarantine! is hereby modified to extend the harvesting season for Valencia 
oranges for the Texas Counties of Brooks, Willacy. Cameron, and Hidalgo to 
the close of May 31 for the year 1941, provided conditions of infestation do not 
necessitate an earlier closing date. 
The host-free period for Valencia oranges, under this modification, will begin 
June 1 and continue to August 31. 1941, inclusive. 
This modification does not affect or alter the harvesting season for grapefruit 
which closes, under the conditions of the above regulation, on April 3'>. 
Done at Washington, D. C, this 30th day of December 1940. 
Lee A. Strong. 
Chief. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
[Filed with the Division of the Federal Register January G, 1041, 11 : 43 a. in. ; 
6 F. R., 120.] 
