1939] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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and Richland Counties, Ohio. These points are included in the areas to which 
fruits and vegetables from the main regulated area may be moved only when 
accompanied by certificates. No restrictions are placed on the movement of 
fruits and vegetables from these special areas. 
Fruit shippers have been further relieved from restrictions on the movement 
of certain commodities by the elimination of restrictions on the movement of 
commercially packed peaches in any quantity, except those moving by refrigera- 
tor cars or motortruck from the special area listed in regulation 5. Bananas in 
single bunches packed in commercial containers are also newly exempt from the 
restrictions. 
Certain articles, which because of their growth or production, or their manu- 
factured or processed condition, are considered innocuous as carriers of infes- 
tation, and heretofore exempted in administrative instructions, circular B. E. 
P. Q. 395, have been so exempted in the revised regulations. 
Qualifications for maintaining a class III status under the restrictions on 
the movement of nursery and greenhouse stock have been added to limit these 
establishments to those having a legitimate need for certification of stock. 
Several isolated sections in which Japanese beetles were trapped during the 
summer of 1938 are not included in the regulated area. Action with respect to 
these infestations has been deferred to permit the States concerned an oppor- 
tunity to inaugurate chemical treatments of the infested sections in the spring 
of 1939. 
The section numbers which appear in this document agree with the section 
numbers in the Code of Federal Regulations now in process of publication. 
S'ummary 
Unless a certificate or permit has been issued, these regulations as now re- 
vised, prohibit the interstate shipment of green corn on the cob, beans in the 
pod, bananas, apples, peaches, blackberries, blueberries, huckleberries, or rasp- 
berries from the regulated areas, to or through points outside; and also pro- 
hibit (unless a certificate or permit has been issued) the interstate movement 
of all fruits and vegetables by refrigerator car or motortruck from the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, the State of Delaware, and parts of Maryland, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, and Virginia, to or through points outside the regulated areas 
as defined in regulation 3. Refrigerator cars used for loading fruits and vege- 
tables, in such area must, prior to loading, be fumigated or cleaned by the 
common carrier and kept tightly closed and sealed during the interval be- 
tween fumigating or cleaning and loading. Fruits and vegetables must be 
fumigated in the car when such action is deemed necessary by the inspector, 
and doors and hatches of the cars must be closed or screened. For other de- 
tails and exceptions see regulation 5. 
The regulations also prohibit the interstate shipment of plants, sand, soil, 
earth, peat, compost, and manure from any part of the regulated areas to or 
through any outside point throughout the year unless a Federal permit or 
certificate has been secured. Portions of plants and cut flowers are restricted 
inters! ale movement only between June 15 and October 15', inclusive. For 
details and exceptions see regulations 6 and 7. 
The regulated areas include the District of Columbia, the entire States of 
Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, and 
parts of Maine. Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 
Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, as described in regulation 3. 
These regulations also place certain restrictions to protect restricted articles 
from infestation while in transit, require thorough cleaning of vehicles and 
containers which have been used in transporting restricted products, and pro- 
vide other safeguards and conditions as specified in regulations 8 to 13, in- 
clusive. 
To secure permits and certificates, address the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine, 2(>(5 Glenwood Avenue. Bloomfield, N. J., or the nearest branch 
office listed in the appendix. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and riant Quarantine. 
