1932] SERVICE AND EEGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 11 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO MEXICAN FRUIT-WORM 
QUARANTINE (NO. 64) 
MODIFICATION OF MEXICAN FRUIT-WORM QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
The amendment which follows modifies regulation 6 of the Mexican fruit- 
worm quarantine by requiring sterilization as a condition of interstate move- 
ment of host fruits into certain Southern and Western States. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE OF 
QUARANTINE NO. 64 
(Approved March 3, 1932; effective March 5, 1932) 
Under authority conferred by the plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 
(37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 
(39 Stat. 1134, 1165), it is ordered that paragraph (c) of regulation 6 of the 
rules and regulations supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 64 on account 
of the Mexican fruit worm, which were promulgated August 10, 1927, be, and 
the same is hereby, amended to read as follows : 
Regulation 6 (in Part). Control of Interstate Movement of Fruits and 
Other Articles 
(c) Host fruits (except when manufactured or processed as provided in para- 
graph (&) shall not be moved or allowed to be moved interstate from the regu- 
lated area unless a permit shall have been issued therefor by an inspector: 
Provided, That permits will not be issued for movement from the regulated 
area directly or indirectly to the States of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Cali- 
fornia, Georgia. Florida. Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North 
Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Washington unless 
such fruits have been sterilized in manner and by method prescribed by the 
United States Department of Agriculture: And provided. That waybills of all 
cars containing host fruits not authorized movement into the Southern and 
Western States named in this paragraph and consigned to diversion ] joints in 
such States shall bear a notation reading as follows : " This car must be 
diverted to destinations in States north or east of and including the States of 
Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana." 
This amendment shall be effective on and after March 5, 1932. 
Done at the city of Washington this 3d day of March, 1932. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal.] Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[The foregoing amendment was sent to all common carriers doing business in or 
through the State of Texas.] 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, 
Washington, D. C, March 3, 1932. 
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority con- 
ferred on him by the plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as 
amended, has promulgated an amendment to the rules and regulations supple- 
mental to Notice of Quarantine No. 64, on account of the Mexican fruit worm, 
effective March 5, 1932. This amendment requires sterilization of host fruits 
consigned directly or indirectly to certain Southern and Western States. Copies 
of said amendment may be obtained from the Plant Quarantine and Control 
Administration. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
Arthur M. Hyde. 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Published in the Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, Tex., March 7, 1932.] 
