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BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE 
[Jan.-Mar. 
Caution. — This fumigation has been effective in destroying the Japanese beetle 
and no injur}' has been noted in raspberries, blackberries, and dewberries fumi- 
gated experimentally by this method. Some injury has been observed in blue- 
berries fumigated with ethylene oxide in the concentrations required to destroy 
all the beetles. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO MEXICAN FRUIT FLY QUARANTINE 
(NO. 64) 
TEXAS CITRUS SHIPPING SEASON ENDS APRIL 5 
(Press Notice) 
March 26, 1934. 
Shipment of citrus fruit from the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas will cease 
for the season on April 5, 1934, Avery S. Hoyt, the Acting Chief of the Bureau of 
Plant Quarantine, announced today. Under the Mexican fruit worm quarantine 
regulations, a period of from 6 to 7 months without any fruit on the trees is main- 
tained in Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy Counties, in Texas, in order to prevent 
the establishment of the Mexican fruit fly, which occurs in Mexico and reaches 
the Texas citrus orchards from time to time. 
Each year the State of Texas requires all fruits susceptible to attack by the 
Mexican fruit fly to be removed from the trees by the end of the shipping season. 
The closing date is fixed by the Federal and State Departments of Agriculture 
after consultation. J. M. DelCurto, entomologist of the Texas State Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, concurs in the present order closing the shipping season on 
April 5, says Mr. Hoyt. 
SHIPPING SEASON FOR TEXAS CITRUS FRUIT TO END ON APRIL 5 
(Approved Mar. 24, 1934; effective Apr. 5, 1934) 
B.P.Q.-361 March 24, 1934. 
Announcement is made that the shipping season for citrus fruit under the 
Federal Mexican fruit worm quarantine (Notice of Quarantine No. 64) from the 
counties of Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy, in Texas, will close for the season on 
April 5, 1934. The host-free period required under the regulations to be enforced 
by the State of Texas will for the year 1934 begin on April 6. 
Under the provisions of the quarantine it is required that prior to the beginning 
of the host-free period each year all citrus fruit except lemons and sour limes shall 
be removed from the trees for shipment, storage, or sale, and all other host fruits 
shall be destroyed either following removal from the trees or by destruction of the 
trees themselves. Permits will not be issued for the interstate shipment of citrus 
fruits after the close of April 5 except as to such fruits shipped from approved 
storage. 
This order modifies an announcement made by the Department on July 31, 
1933, when the current shipping season was extended to include April 30, 1934. 
The modification is necessary owing to the discovery of Mexican fruit flies within 
the regulated area during the past several weeks and the importance of instituting 
the host-free period without delay in order to avoid the establishment of infesta- 
tions in the groves. The findings consist thus far entirely of the capture of adult 
flies in traps. No infested fruit has been discovered this season, but the presence 
of such flies either may indicate an undiscovered infestation or may threaten to 
result in the local establishment of the pest. The present action is taken to avoid 
that danger. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO NARCISSUS-BULB QUARANTINE 
(NO. 62) 
NARCISSUS INSPECTION RECORDS FOR 1933 
B.P.Q.-358. March 15, 1934. 
The following table (table 5) gives a record of the narcissus plantings inspected 
during the calendar year 1933 under the Federal quarantine for the prevention of 
spread of bulb pests. The figures given are summarized from the reports sent to 
this Bureau by the nursery inspectors of the various States who act as Federal 
collaborators in making such inspections. 
