90 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
All previous lists of exempted articles are superseded by these instructions. 
(See Postal Bulletin of November 21, 1939, and page 10, December 1939 Supple- 
ment to the Postal Guide.) 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO PUERTO RICAN FRUIT AND 
VEGETABLE QUARANTINE (NO. 58) 
B. E. P. Q. 518. 
Effective November 15, 1941 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
Part 301 — Domestic Quarantine Notices 
treatment prescribed for certain puerto rican vegetables 
§301.58— 3b. Administrative instructions; treatment requirement for green string 
beans, lima beans, faba beans, and pigeonpeas, in the pod, moving from Puerto Rico. 
Pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology 
and Plant Quarantine by paragraph (a) of § 301.58-3, Chapter III, Title 7, Code 
of Federal Regulations [regulation 3 of the rules and regulations supplemental to 
the Fruit and Vegetable Quarantine of Puerto Rico (No. 58)], treatment is pre- 
scribed for green string beans, lima beans, faba beans, and pigeonpeas, in the pod, 
moving by freight or express from Puerto Rico to any other State, Territory, or 
District of the United States, effective November 15, 1941, as follows: 
(a) Vacuum fumigation, — Treatment is to be given in a standard vacuum 
fumigation vault equipped with a blower, with a 15-inch vacuum maintained 
throughout the period, at any temperature above 34° F., with a dosage of 3 pounds 
of methyl bromide per 1,000 cubic feet of space, including the load, for 1)4 hours. 
(b) Atmospheric fumigation. — Treatment is to be given in an approved at- 
mospheric fumigation vault provided with a circulating fan, for a period of 2 
hours, with dosages of methyl bromide as follows: (1) If the mass temperature is 
between 50° and 70° F., the dosage shall be at the rate of 3 pounds per 1,000 cubic 
feet of space, including the load; (2) if the mass temperature is above 70° F., the 
dosage shall be at the rate of l}i pounds per 1,000 cubic feet of space, including the 
load. (Note. — Atmospheric fumigation is not recommended at temperatures 
below 50° F.) 
Treatment vaults and equipment will be approved for fumigation purposes by 
the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine through the local plant quar- 
antine inspector only when reasonably accessible for supervision purposes and 
when properly constructed and equipped to carry out the treatment prescribed. 
All costs of treatment other than the services of the supervising inspector shall 
be borne by the owner of the products, or his representative. 
While the prescribed treatment is judged from experimental tests to be safe for 
use with these products the Department assumes no responsibility for any damage 
sustained through or in the course of treatment. 
Shipments of small lots of these products may be certified for shipment by 
parcel post without fumigation when thev have been examined bv an inspector 
and found free from infestation. (7 C. F. R., § 301.58-3; § 8, 39 Stat. 1165, 44 
Stat, 250; 7 L T . S. C. 161.) 
Done at Washington, D. C, this 12th day of November 1941. 
P. N. Annand, 
Chief. 
[Filed with the Division of the Federal Register November 19, 1941, 11.14 a. in.: 6 F. R. 5891.] 
TERMINAL INSPECTION OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, November 10, 191+1. 
ARIZONA STATE PLANT QUARANTINES 
(Revision of notice dated August 7, 1939) 
Under plant quarantines and regulations issued by the State of Arizona, the 
shipment into that State of certain plants and plant materials, known to be hosts 
of injurious pests and plant diseases, is subject to certain requirements, or entirely 
prohibited. 
