S.R.A.— B.P.Q. No. 11G Issued December 1933. 
United States Department of Agriculture 
BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
JULY-SEPTEMBER 1933 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Quarantine and other official announcements 197 
Announcements relating to Dutch elm disease 197 
Secretary Wallace calls hearing September 15 on Dutch elm disease 197 
Notice of public hearing to consider the advisability of prohibiting or restricting the entry of 
elm and related species of trees and parts and products thereof from Europe 198 
Announcements relating to fruit and vegetable quarantine (no. 56) 198 
Amendment no. 6 of regulations supplemental to notice of quarantine 198 
Instructions to collectors of customs (T.D. 48591) 200 
Announcements relating to Japanese-beetle quarantine (no. 48) 200 
Japanese-beetle conference in Washington October 24 200 
Fruits and vegetables may be shipped this fall without Japanese-beetle certificates on and 
after September 15 200 
Removal of Japanese-beetle quarantine restrictions on the interstate movement of fruits 
and vegetables 201 
Announcement relating to Mexican fruit-fly quarantine (no. 64) 201 
Department authorizes lengthening of next shipping season for citrus fruit of lower Rio 
Grande Valley 201 
Announcements relating to nursery stock, plant, and seed quarantine (no. 37) 202 
Instructions to collectors of customs (T.D. 4659C) 202 
Conditions governing the entry and treatment of narcissus-bulb importations (B.P.Q.— 354). 202 
Strong calls conference on important plant quarantine 203 
Notice of public conference to consider certain changes with respect to the administration 
of nursery stock, plant, and seed quarantine no. 37... 204 
Announcements relating to pink bollworm quarantine (no. 52) 204 
Revision of regulations , 204 
Notice to general public through newspapers 211 
Campaign against pink bollworm started in cotton fields of South 212 
Announcements relating to Thurberia-weevil quarantine (no. 61) 212 
Revision of regulations 212 
Notice to general public through newspapers 218 
Miscellaneous items 218 
Plant quarantine restrictions, New Zealand (P.Q.C.A.— 306, supplement no. 1) 218 
Plant quarantine restrictions, Jamaica, B.W.I. (B.P.Q.— 355) 219 
Plant quarantine restrictions, Republic of Greece (B.P.Q. —347, supplement no. 1) 221 
Plant quarantine restrictions, Germany (B.P.Q.— 302, revised, supplement no. 1). 223 
Plant quarantine restrictions, British Honduras (P.Q.C.A.— 314, supplement no. 3) 224 
Shipment of Mexican citrus fruits in bond through the United States (P.Q.C.A.— 305, 
revised) 225 
Lee A. Strong named Chief of Bureau of Entomolocv... 227 
Fruit-fly survey in the West Indies, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Peru 227 
Statement of Federal plant quarantines 241 
Penalties imposed for violations of the Plant Quarantine Act 242 
Organization of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine 244 
QUARANTINE AND OTHER OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO DUTCH ELM DISEASE 
SECRETARY WALLACE CALLS HEARING SEPTEMBER 15 ON DUTCH ELM DISEASE 
(Press notice) 
August 30, 1933. 
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has announced that notice has been issued 
for a hearing, to be held in Washington, D.C., September 15, to consider whether 
steps should be taken to prevent further establishment of the Dutch elm di- 
sease in this country by placing under quarantine host materials likely to carry 
this disease from Europe. 
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