1929] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS Hi 
Notice is therefore hereby given that, in accordance with the plant quaran- 
tine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress 
approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), a public hearing will be held at 
10 a. m. on June 1, 1929, before the Plant Quarantine and Control Administra- 
tion and the Federal Plant Quarantine Board of the United States Department 
of Agriculture in the offices of the said administration of 1729 New York 
Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C, in order that any person interested in the 
proposed quarantine action may appear and be heard either in person or by 
attorney. 
The object of this hearing is to provide a basis for the better enforcement of 
restrictions under Quarantine 68 and amendments thereto on movement of 
host fruits and vegetables originating in Florida. The particular object at this 
time is, by regulation, to prevent any reshipments of such Florida fruits and 
vegetables from the areas of destination and utilization specified in the quaran- 
tine and amendments thereto into other sections of the United States. It is 
intended also to furnish the basis for prompt handling of any points of 
infestation which may later be determined in other States. 
Arthur M. Hyde. 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Administrative Instructions 
[Approved June 4, 1929; effective June 4, 1929) 
P. Q. C. A.— 234 June 4. 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 restricted articles : 
Shipment of Nursery Stock by Mail from Florida Prohibited 
(Modification of regulation 9) 
Nursery stock (including all kinds of plants and plant roots except portions 
of plants without roots or soil) shall not be shipped by mail from any part of 
the State of Florida. 
Extension of Citrus-Fruit Shipping Season from Newly Established 
Protective Zones 
(Modification of regulation 3, section A (4)) 
Citrus fruit may be moved interstate under permit during the period June 1 
to June 15, 1929, inclusive, from protective zones established subsequent to 
May 31, 1929. Such shipments shall be subject to all other requirements of 
the regulations supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 08 as to destination, 
packing, marking, and other conditions of transportation. 
C L. Maelatt, 
Chief, Plant Quarantine ami Control Administration. 
Approved : 
Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Orchard and Packing-House Sanitation Urged fob All Faun Sectio 
I Tress not ice 1 
Jink 7, 1929. 
Discovery of the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida and Infested Florida 
citrus fruit in several other states recently has centered the attention of 
officials of the Fidtod states Department of Agriculture on wide-spread 
clean-up measures in orchards and fruit packing houses. 
Clean-up of fallen fruit and destruction of fruit dumps and rejects is par- 
ticularly necessary this year not only because of the fruit fly but also because 
of other common pests, according to C. L. Marlatt, chief of the riant Quarantine 
and ( Jontrol Administration. 
Such clean-up of orchards and Bafe disposition of packing-house culls is 
probably seldom made. Doctor Marlatt says, but the necessity is elearlv 
