100 PLAXT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION [April-June, 
articles including nursery stock which have been associated with the production 
of or commerce in fruits or vegetables or have been or are contaminated with 
sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, or manure shall not be shipped, offered for 
shipment to a common carrier, received for transportation or transported by a 
common carrier, or carried, transported, moved or allowed to be moved from 
the State of Florida into or through any other State or Territory or District 
of the United States, in manner or method or under conditions other than those 
prescribed in such rules and regulations and amendments thereto. 
A copy of the quarantine and of the revised rules and regulations is inclosed. 
Very respectfully, 
Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
( Inclosures. ) 
[Do not detach this receipt] 
Received this notice and the copy of quarantine No. 68 with revised rules- 
and regulations mentioned therein this day of 1929. 
(Signature) 
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[Sent to all common carriers doing business in or through the State of Florida.] 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
May 10, 1929. 
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority 
conferred on him by the plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), 
as amended, has promulgated a revision of the rules and regulations supple- 
mental to Notice of Quarantine No. 68, on account of the Mediterranean fruit 
fly, effective May 10, 1929. Of especial interest to shippers are changes affect- 
ing the shipment of citrus fruits from cold storage plants and of limes from 
Monroe and Dade Counties subsequent to June 15; the use of packing houses 
in lightly infested zones when other facilities are absent for the packing of 
fruit coming from the surrounding protective zones and adjacent points out- 
side thereof; and the issuance of permits for the interstate movement of host 
fruits and vegetables in dining cars. A further modification prohibits bulk, 
mail, and automobile truck movement of host vegetables from any part of the 
State of Florida. 
Copies of the said quarantine and of the revised rules and regulations may 
be obtained from the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, United 
States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Published in the Sentinel, Orlando, Fla., May 17, 1929.] 
Administrative Instructions Relative to 
Enforcement of Mediterranean Fruit-Fly Quarantine 
movement of tomatoes and peppers 
[Approved May 11, 1929 ; effective May 11, 1929] 
P. Q. C. A.— 228 May 11, 1929. 
Pending later amendment of the Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine (Notice 
of Quarantine No. 68) the following administrative instructions are issued 
with respect to the movement of green tomatoes and chili and Cayenne peppers 
under permit (see regulation 5, par. 4) from the infested zones: 
Permits may be issued for the shipment of green tomatoes, chili and Cayenne 
peppers (bell peppers not included) from infested zones to move interstate only 
to the District of Columbia including Potomac Yards in Virginia and to destina- 
tions in the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania and States north and east 
thereof when such fields are so located that in the judgment of the inspector 
such movement does not involve risk of spreading the fruit-fly and conditioned 
further upon the daily destruction of all ripe or ripening tomatoes or peppers 
in the field and their disposition in a manner satisfactory to the inspector. 
Such green tomatoes are to be packed in the field : Provided, That all tonuitoes, 
