1939] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Canada : Acorns and chestnuts grown in and shipped from Canada are enter- 
able without permit or other restriction when imported for purposes other than 
propagation (sec. 319.56-21), issued under sec. 319.56-2). 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, August 10, 1939. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir: Your attention is invited to the enclosed copy of the latest 
revision of Quarantine No. 48 of the United States Department of Agriculture 
(effective February 20, 1939), extending the area and modifying the regulations 
in connection with the Japanese beetle quarantine, by which you will please 
be governed. See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS 
Post Office Department, 
Thied Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, September 20, 1939. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir: Your attention is invited to the enclosed copy of Amendment 
No. 1 to the Rules and Regulations Supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 
48 on account of the Japanese beetle issued by the United States Department 
of Agriculture, which became effective July 1, 1939. This amendment revises 
regulations 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9 of the quarantine notice previously furnished you. 
Kindly be governed accordingly. See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws 
and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
JAPANESE BEETLE CONTROL ENDS FOR SEASON ON FRUIT AND VEGETABLE 
SHIPMENTS 
[Press notice] 
September 20, 1939. 
Restrictions on the movement of fruits and vegetables under the Japanese 
beetle quarantine regulations were removed for the season at midnight yester- 
day (September 19), the Department of Agriculture announced today. Restric- 
tions 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 todav, releases 
the fruits and vegetables from that requirement nearly 1 weeks earlier than 
is provided in the regulations. 
The regulated area includes Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts. Rhode 
Island, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia, and parts <»f Maine Maryland 
New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and West 
Virginia. 
