1935] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 9 
as amended, has promulgated an amendment to the revised rules and regula- 
tions supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 64, on account of the Mexican 
fruit worm, effective on and after March 19, 1935. The amendment adds Brooks 
County to the regulated area of Texas. Copies of the amendment may be 
obtained from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Washington, 
D, C. 
H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Published in Facts, Falfurrias, Tex., April 5, 1935.] 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, April 2, 1935. 
Postmaster, 
Encino, Tex., Falfurrias, Tex. 
My Dear Sir: Your attention is invited to the enclosed copy of Quarantine 
Order No. 64 of the United States Department of Agriculture on account of 
the Mexican fruit worm, together with a copy of amendment no. 1 to revised 
rules and regulations thereto, which adds Brooks County, Tex., to the list of 
counties in regulation no. 3, designating the regulated area under the order. 
As your office is within Brooks County, you are requested to be governed in 
accordance with the quarantine order and amendment thereto. See paragraph 
1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
C B. ElLENBERGER, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
TEXAS CITRUS SHIPPING SEASON ENDS APRIL 2 
March 23, 1935. 
(Press notice) 
Shipment of citrus fruit direct from the groves of the lower Rio Grande 
Valley of Texas will cease for the season on April 2, 1935, instead of on April 
15, Lee A. Strong, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
announced today. After April 2, says Mr. Strong, Federal permits for the 
interstate shipment of citrus fruit from the regulated area will be issued only 
for fruit in approved storage. 
Under the Mexican fruit worm quarantine regulations, a period of from 6 to 
7 months without any fruit on the trees is maintained in Brooks, Cameron, 
Hidalgo, and Willacy Counties, in Texas. This is 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 the removal from the trees of all 
fruits susceptible to attack by the Mexican fruit fly. The closing date of the 
shipping season is fixed by the Federal and State Departments of Agriculture 
after consultation. J. E. McDonald, commissioner of the Texas State Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, concurs in the present order closing the shipping season 
on April 2, says Mr. Strong. 
It was originally intended to permit shipments until April 15, as was an- 
nounced last January. Recently, however, Mexican fruit flies have been found 
on the Texas side of the border, and the Department considers it necessary to 
institute the host-free period without delay to avoid the danger of additional 
fruit-fly infestations being established in the Texas citrus groves. The purpose 
of maintaining a period each year during which there are no fruits available 
in which the fruit flies can breed, and applying sprays toxic to the insect, is 
to prevent the fruit flies from living through until the next crop of citrus fruit 
ripens in the fall. 
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