1929] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 117 
east thereof when the fields in which such vegetables are grown are so located 
that in the judgment cf 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 eggplants or peppers in the field and their disposition in a 
manner satisfactory to the inspector. Such eggplants and peppers are to be 
packed in the field : Provided, That all eggplants and peppers, crop remnants 
and vines, immediately after the movement of the commercial crop is com- 
pleted, 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. Marlatt, 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. 
Approved : 
Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Cowpeab Released from Restriction Under Mediterranean Fruit-Fly 
Quarantine 
[Press notice] 
June 28, 1929. 
Instructions removing cowpeas from the list of host vegetables restricted 
under the Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine regulations have been issued by 
the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture announced to-day. 
The department states that while other kind of beans are susceptible to 
infestation by the fly, the type of bean known as the cowpea is not recorded 
to have been infested in the past. Experimental studies have been carried on 
under which an attempt has been made to force the fruit flies to lay eggs In 
cowpeas, but these attempts have not resulted in infestation. This experi- 
mental work is being continued and if at any time it is shown that cowpeas 
are not immune, they will again be placed under restriction. 
While cowpeas are not shipped commercially from Florida, the action taken 
by the department is of importance, as it permits the planting of cowpeas In 
the infested zones, a measure which is valuable for the maintenance of the 
fertility of the soil. Cowpeas are also extensively used as a vegetable. 
Administrative Instructions 
removal of restrictions on cowpeas 
(Approved June 27, 1929 ; effective June 27, 1929) 
P. Q. C. A.— 237. June 27. 1929. 
Pending later amendment of the Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine regula- 
tions (Notice of Quarantine No. 68) the following administrative instructions 
are issued : 
In view of the absence of any record of Mediterranean fruit-fly Infestation 
in the type of bean known as cowpeas and the failure thus far to forte 
infestation therein exjterimentaly, cowpeas are until further notice removed 
from the list of host vegetables restricted under the Mediterranean fruit-tlv- 
quarantine regulations. The said regulations are amended by Inserting the 
words " (except cowpeas) " after the words "beans of all kinds" where the 
latter terms occur in paragraph (h) of regulation 1, and paragraph (1) of 
regulation 5. 
No restrictions will hereafter be enforced under this quarantine with respect 
to cowpeas either as to interstate movement, or the planting, growing, or main- 
tenance of such cowpeas in Infested or protective zones or elsewhere. 
Regulations affecting other kinds of beans remain in full force and effect 
as heretofore. 
C. L, Maim. a i i . 
Chief, Plant Quarantine and ('out rot Administration. 
Approved : 
Arthur M. Hyik:, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
