3g BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept 
Caution. — Methyl bromide is a gas at ordinary temperatures. It is colorless 
and practically odorless in concentration used for the fumigation of tomatoes. 
It is a poison, and the operator should use an approved gas mask when exposed 
to the gas at concentrations used in fumigation, and when opening the hatches 
for ventilating the cars. The car should not be entered until it is well aerated. 
Aveey S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
JAPANESE BEETLE CONTROL ENDS FOR SEASON ON FRUIT AND VEGETABLE 
SHIPMENTS 
(Press notice) 
September 20, 1938. 
Restrictions on the movement of fruits and vegetables under the Japanese 
beetle quarantine regulations were removed for the season at midnight, Mom 
day, September 19, the Secretary of Agriculture announced today. Restrictions 
•on cut flowers, however, remain in force through October 15. 
Under quarantine regulations, certificates showing freedom from Japanese 
beetle are required until October 16 on interstate shipments of certain kinds 
of fruits and vegetables from the entire regulated area and on interstate ship- 
ments of fruits and vegetables of any kind via refrigerator car or motortruck from 
certain sections of the regulated area. The order, issued today, releases the 
fruits and vegetables from that requirement nearly 4 weeks earlier than is 
provided in the regulations. 
Inspection of fruits and vegetables is necessary only during the period when 
adult beetles are in active flight. There is no risk that such products will 
carry the Japanese beetle after this active period, which is now apparently 
over throughout the regulated area. During the last few days the Department's 
inspectors have found no beetles in fruits and vegetables. 
There is still danger, however, that the adult beetles may be transported 
in cut flowers. Therefore, the restrictions on the interstate movement of cut 
flowers and other parts of plants will remain in full force and effect through 
October 15. 
Restrictions on the movement of nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse stock 
and all other plants (except cut flowers, aquatic plants, and portions of plants 
without roots and free from soil) are in force throughout the year and are 
not affected by this amendment. 
TERMINATION DATE ON FRUIT AND VEGETABLE RESTRICTIONS UNDER JAPANESE 
BEETLE QUARANTINE (QUARANTINE NO. 48) ADVANCED TO SEPTEMBER 20 FOR 
THE YEAR 1938 
It has been determined that the active period of the Japanese beetle in its 
relation to fruits and vegetables has already ceased for the present season and 
that it is, therefore, safe to permit the unrestricted movement of the fruits 
and vegetables listed in regulation 5 of the rules and regulations (sixteenth 
revision) supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 48 from the entire regu- 
lated area as defined in regulation 3 of said rules and regulations ; therefore, 
it is ordered that all restrictions on the interstate movement of the articles 
referred to above are hereby removed on and after September 20, 1938. This 
order advances the termination of the restrictions as to fruits and vegetables 
provided for in regulation 5 from October 16 to September 20, 1938, and 
applies to this season only. 
Done at the city of Washington this 19th day of September 1938. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the- United States Department of Agri- 
culture. 
[seal] H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[The foregoing notice was sent to all common carriers doing business in or through the 
quarantined area.l 
