1932] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 29 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO CITRUS-CANKER QUARANTINE 
(NO. 19) 
MODIFICATION OF QUARANTINE ON ACCOUNT OF THE CITRUS CANKER AND 
OTHER CITRUS DISEASES 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
It has recently been established that seeds of citrus fruits, when freed from 
pulp, can be successfully treated with hydrogen peroxide so as to eliminate the 
danger of introducing on them the citrus canker disease due to Bacterium citri 
Hasse. It seems no longer necessary, therefore, to maintain a prohibitory 
quarantine against these seeds. The present modification of Notice of Quaran- 
tine No. 19 is designed to release citrus seeds from their prohibited status there- 
under, after which they will automatically come under the provisions of quaran- 
tine No. 37, and, under the provisions of regulations 3 and 9 of that quarantine, 
they will be allowed entry under permit, at specified ports, if free from pulp, and 
subject to disinfection under departmental supervision. 
This modification of Notice of Quarantine No. 19 will thus provide merely for 
the release of citrus seeds from a prohibited to a restricted status. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chdef, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
MODIFICATION OF NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 19 
(Approved June 22, 1932; effective July 1, 1932) 
Whereas, the Secretary of Agriculture, on December 10, 1914, in order to pre- 
vent the introduction into the United States of citrus canker and other citrus 
diseases, did, by Notice of Quarantine No. 19, issued on said date, promulgate his 
determination that it was necessary to forbid the importation into the United 
States of all citrus nursery stock, including buds, scions, and seeds from the 
foreign countries and localities specified therein ; 
Now, therefore, I, Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, under the au- 
thority given in section 7 of the plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 
315), do hereby withdraw said promulgation, in so far as it covers citrus seeds; 
it being the intent and purpose hereof to leave unchanged the prohibition in said 
Notice of Quarantine No. 19, as to the importation of all the plants and plant 
products named therein, except citrus seeds, and by amendments made this day 
to regulations 3 and 9 of Notice of Quarantine No. 37, to provide for the importa- 
tion under restriction of the citrus seeds which have been hereby released from 
the prohibition of Notice of Quarantine No. 19. 
This modification shall be effective on and after July 1, 1932. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 22d day of June, 1932. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal.] Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO EUROPEAN CORN-BORER 
QUARANTINE (NO. 43) 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, D. C, May 9, 1982. 
Postmaster : 
My Dear Sir: Inclosed is a copy of a revision of the European corn-borer 
quarantine and regulations (Quarantine Order No. 43 of the United States 
Department of Agriculture) effective February 5, 1932. 
The principal changes are set forth in the Introductory Note. Please read 
the Introductory Note, as well as the remainder of the quarantine order, and 
