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protective zones in Florida up to and including June 15, with special provision 
for shipping grapes up to June 30, 1929. 
The provision for entry of foreign fruits and vegetables, chiefly bananas, at 
Florida ports, the Department of Agriculture points out, is to correct an in- 
terpretation of the quarantine as prohibiting movement of all fruits out of 
the State except in accordance with certain restrictions as to destination and 
date. These restrictions were intended to apply only to fruit of Florida 
production. 
The extension of time for marketing vegetable crops grown in the protective 
zones of Florida is necessitated by the backward season. Such extension, 
the department says, is imperative if these crops are to be distributed in 
commerce. A similar situation exists in the case of the grape crop. 
This extension of time, the department explains, applies only to areas in 
Florida designated as protective zones, namely, zones which are believed, as 
a result of intensive inspections, not to have been reached by the fruit fly. 
Such action, it is contended, is further justified by the thorough clean-up in 
all the infested areas in Florida, and in fact by the cooperation of all interests- 
in the state-wide clean-up. 
Administrative Instructions 
P. Q. C. A.— 232 May 23, 1929. 
INTERSTATE MOVEMENT OF IMPORTED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES VIA FLORIDA PORTS- 
[Approved May 23, 1929 ; effective May 23, 1929] 
Pending later amendment of the Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine (Notice 
of Quarantine No. 68) the following administrative instructions are issued 
with respective to the movement from the State of Florida, or through that 
State, of interstate shipments of imported fruits and vegetables : 
Permits may be issued for the interstate movement of bananas, avocados, or 
other fruits and for any vegetable entering the United States through Florida 
ports under the provisions of Quarantine 56 or other quarantines restricting the 
entry of fruits and vegetables into the United States without respect to the 
rules and regulations under Quarantine 68 and amendments thereto on account 
of the Mediterranean fruit fly, conditioned upon the observance of such safe- 
guards on the part of the shipper as may be required by the inspector to 
eliminate risk of spreading the Mediterranean fruit fly. 
C. L. Mari.att. 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
Approved : 
Arthur M. Hyde. 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Administration Instructions 
P. Q. C. A.— 233 May 23, 1929. 
period of shipment of noncitrus fruits and host vegetables from protec- 
tive ZONES IN FLORIDA EXTENDED I oi: SEASON OF 1029 
[Approved May 23, 1029; effective May 23. 1929] 
Pending later amendment of (lie Mediterranean Fruit-fly quarantine (N 
of Quarantine No. 68) the following administrative instructions are Issued 
with respect to the movement of nil noncitrus fruits and bosj grown 
in or moving from protective zoi 
Permits may he Issued up to and Including June 15, 1929, for tin 1 shipment of 
noncitrus fruits and host vegetables from protective zones to move Interstate 
only to the District of Columbia, Including Potomac Yards in Virginia and to 
destinations in the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania and States north 
and east thereof when in the judgment of the inspector Buch movement does 
not involve the risk of spreading the fruit fly, and conditioned further upon 
compliance with such precautions as to packing, shipping, clean-up, and 
disposal of culls and unshipped portions of the crops concerned as shall he 
required hy the inspector: Provided, That permits may be issued for the ship- 
