1932] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 97 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO FRUIT AND VEGETABLE QUARAN- 
TINE (NO. 56) 
REVISION OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
This edition of the regulations supplemental to Quarantine No. 56 is necessary 
in order to replenish an exhausted stock, and is essentially a mere reprint. The 
only change made in the regulations themselves is the substitution of the now 
legal title " Bureau of Plant Quarantine" in regulations 1 and 3 for the former 
title "Federal Horticultural Board." The explanatory note relating to disin- 
fection and safeguarding procedure is omitted, inasmuch as this field is fully 
covered by the plant safeguard regulations which become effective December 1, 
1932. Regulation 2 as given in the present edition continues amendment No. 5, 
revising this regulation effective July 15, 1932. 
The notice of permit requirement for the entry of chestnuts and acorns from 
foreign countries, issued pursuant to the provisions of regulation 2 and which 
became effective July 29, 1929, continues in effect. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 56 
(Effective on and after November 1, 1923) 
The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and notice is 
hereby given (1) that there exist in Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico, Central America 
and South America, and other foreign countries and localities, certain injurious 
insects, including fruit and melon flies (Trypetidae) , new to and not heretofore 
widely distributed within and throughout the United States, which affect and 
may be carried by fruits and vegetables commercially imported into the United 
States or brought to the ports of the United States as ships' stores or casually by 
passengers or others, and (2) that the unrestricted importation of fruits and vege- 
tables from the countries and localities enumerated may result in the entry into 
the United States of injurious insects, including fruit and melon flies (Trypetidae) . 
Now, therefore, I, Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, under authority 
conferred by the act of Congress approved August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), do 
hereby declare that it is necessary, in order to prevent the introduction into the 
United States of certain injurious insects, including fruit and melon flies (Trype- 
tidae), to forbid, except as provided in the rules and regulations supplemental 
hereto, the importation into the United States of fruits and vegetables from the 
foreign countries and localities named and from any other foreign country or 
locality, and of plants or portions of plants used as packing material in connection 
with shipments of such fruits and vegetables. 
On and after November 1, 1923, and until further notice, the importation 
from all foreign countries and localities into the United States of fruits and vegeta- 
bles, and of plants or portions of plants used as packing material in connection 
with shipments of such fruits and vegetables, except as provided in the rules and 
regulations supplemental hereto, is prohibited. 
This quarantine leaves in full effect all special quarantines and other orders now 
in force restricting the entry into the United States of fruits and vegetables with 
the exception of Quarantine No. 49, with regulations, on account of the citrus 
black fly, which is replaced by this quarantine. A list of such quarantines and 
restrictive orders is given in Appendix A of the rules and regulations supplemental 
hereto. 
Done this first day of August, 1923. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[beal.] Henry C. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
