1934] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Agriculture, effective September 1, 1934, is published for the information and 
guidance of collectors of customs and others concerned. 
Eli Frank, Jr., 
Acting Commissioner of Customs, 
(Then follows the full text of the revised quarantine.) 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO FRUIT AND VEGETABLE 
QUARANTINE (NO. 56) 
B. P. Q.-362, Supplement No. 1. July 26, 1934. 
STERILIZATION OF IMPORTED VINIFERA GRAPES BY REFRIGERATION 
It now appears that occasional shipments of grapes may be offered for entry 
under the provision of B. P. Q.-362 during the late summer months. In view of 
this situation, as an added safeguard the entry, subject to sterilization of 
grapes from regions where the Mediterranean fruit fly is known to occur, will 
be limited to the period October 15 to March 15. 
In this connection it should be emphasized that the only type of container 
which has been approved for the shipment of grapes originating in couutries 
where the Mediterranean fruit fly occurs is a tight barrel or keg. To avoid 
any delay or rejection of fruit arriving in containers which have not been 
approved, all in interest should submit in advance of the shipping season, 
samples of the container to be used. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
B. P. Q.-362, Supplement No. 2. August 2 y 1934. 
STERILIZATION OF IMPORTED VINIFERA GRAPES BY REFRIGERATION 
The purpose of the additional safeguards contained in Supplement No. 1 
to B. P. Q.-362 was to limit the entry of grapes to the cooler months on the 
theory that there might be sufficient breakage of containers during the period 
when susceptible fruits would be available for oviposition by fruit flies should 
any escape during weather suitable for the development of the fly. 
For the present shipping season grapes will be permitted entry from October 
1 to April 15, a period when availability of susceptible fruits and temperature 
conditions are such as not to offer risk in the development of the fly should 
any escape from broken containers. Meanwhile breakage conditions will be 
observed and future shipping seasons will be restricted or not according to 
conditions found to obtain. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO GYPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL 
MOTH QUARANTINE (NO. 45) 
GYPSY MOTH AND BROWN-TAIL MOTH QUARANTINE (NO. 45) 
Revision of Regulations 
introductory note 
The gypsy moth and brown-tail moth quarantine regulations are revised 
below in order to bring them up to date with respect to changes in the known 
distribution of these insects since the last revision of the regulations was 
adopted May 25, 1931. The revision reduces the size of the regulated area 
in Vermont, and designates as generally infested certain territory of Con- 
necticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont which has heretofore been 
classed as lightly infested. It also modifies the boundaries of the area desig- 
