1929] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 101 
crop remnants, and vines, immediately after the movement of the commercial 
crop is completed, but not later than June 30, shall be cleaned from the fields 
and destroyed by burying with quicklime and covering with three feet of earth 
or by burning. 
C. L. Mablatt, 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
Approved : 
Abthub M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Administrative Instructions 
florida fbuit and vegetable shipments limited as to destination 
[Approved May 16, 1929 ; effective May 16, 1929] 
P. Q. C. A.— 229 May 16, 1929. 
The following additional restrictions shall be enforced with respect to the 
movement of all host fruits and vegetables out of the State of Florida. These 
restrictions shall apply to and be an amendment of regulations 3, 4, and 5 of 
Notice of Quarantine No. G8, on account of the Mediterranean fruit-fly. 
For the crop of 1929. unless otherwise ordered, further permits will not be 
issued for the movement of host fruits or vegetables from any part of Florida 
into the States or Territory listed below, and any movement of such host fruits 
and vegetables from Florida into these States or Territory by rail, express, mail, 
or other means is prohibited: Washington. Oregon, Idaho, California. Nevada. 
Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas. Porto Rico, Oklahoma. Arkansas, Louisiana. 
Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. 
C. L. Mablatt, 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
Approved : 
Abthub M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Wab Against the Mediterbanean Fruit Fly 
prompt federal and state action 
P. Q. C. A. 230. May 20, 1929. 
The establishment in Florida of the Mediterranean fruit fly. probably the 
worst of all fruit pests, was at once recognized by both the State and Federal 
Governments as a most serious menace to the fruit interests of a considerable 
portion of the United States. An emergency fund of $50,000 was immediately 
liberated by Florida and all available State forces were mobilized in efforts 
looking to eradication. The large and well-developed plant quarantine per- 
sonnel of the State was thrown into this work and also the extension service 
and technical leaders from the Stale experiment station and the voluntary 
aid offered by hundreds of citizens. The Federal Government, upon the 
recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, approved by the President 
and Congress, made $4,250,000 immediately available for the control and 
eradication work, which had already been started by the Plant Quarantine and 
Control Administration of the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with 
Florida, on a transfer of $40,000 and also personnel from other work of the 
Administration. 
INFESTED FRUIT WIDELY DISTRIBUTED 
Prior to the discovery of this pest in the vicinity of Orlando. Pla., OD April 6 
and the confirmation of its Identification in Washington on April 10, between 
two-thirds and three-fourths of the fruit Of that district and of Florida, bad 
already moved out of the State through the normal channels of distribution 
and diversion, thus carrying the risk Of establishment of this pest widely in 
the United states. On account of more favorable climatic conditions it was 
recognized that such movement had a particular menace to the States of the 
Cotton Belt from Texas and Oklahoma eastward, namely, the States which had 
been reached during the winter and spring by fruit movement from Florida. 
Much of such movement to the nearby States of Georgia and Alabama and 
perhaps Mississippi has been by auto truck and of fruit o\' lower grade, often 
