80 PLANT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION [April-June, 
mined and are being controlled by the State plant board. Except as to 
this provision, the effective date of the quarantine is May 1, 1929. 
For the purpose of this quarantine the State of Florida will fall into three 
types of zones, namely (1) the infested zones, (2) the protective zones, and 
(3) the State as a whole outside of these two types of zones. 
Infested zones will include the orchards determined to have been reached 
by the fly and surrounding properties to a distance of at least 1 mile. Within 
these zones all fruits and vegetables are to be destroyed or processed and no 
more are to be permitted to develop until the zone is released from restriction. 
The protective zones will include all properties within 9 miles, surrounding 
the infested zones. These zones are to be adjusted to natural boundaries. 
Within each protective zone all groves and all plantings of host vegetables 
will be given intensive inspection but the fruits and vegetables Will be allowed 
to move under certain safeguards and restrictions in interstate commerce. 
Within this zone, however, there will be maintained a nonfruit period of at 
least six months beginning on May 1 each year, during which no fruits or 
vegtables in a stage to be attacked by the fly will be permitted to remain ; in 
other words, all fruits ripening on orchard trees will be removed before they 
have reached a stage to be attacked by the fly, and no vegetables are to be 
planted which will mature during the period. It is anticipated that for the 
season of 1929 host-free conditions within the protective zones will be com- 
plied with in full by the end of May. 
This annual nonfruit period prescribed for the protective zones will be sub- 
ject to such adjustment as may be necessary to meet any seasonal variation 
and to meet any needs of eradication which may develop. For the spring 
shipping season of 1929 shipments of citrus fruit will not be allowed to be 
moved from the protective zone after May 31 nor from the rest of the State 
after June 15. The green citrus fruit of the new crop will be permitted to 
develop on the trees throughout the summer period but is not expected to 
reach a stage of development susceptible to fruit-fly attack until late fall. 
This new crop will then be marketed under adequate precautions during the 
winter months. The protective zone is, therefore, in a sense a buffer zone 
and will be a material part of the eradication plan. 
All areas in the State outside of these two types of zones will be under 
restriction merely to the extent of providing for inspection and certification 
of fruits, and such control of host vegetable crops as may be necessary to fully 
determine that the fly has not spread to them. All classes of fruits, except 
watermelons and pineapples, which latter are not known to be subject to 
attack, are under these restrictions. The restrictions on vegetables relate only 
to peppers, beans, tomatoes, squashes, gourds, and eggplants. 
Certain types of movement, including truck, mail, and bulk shipments, are 
prohibited altogether for the reason that movements of this kind involve a 
maximum of risk and can not be adequately safeguarded without great expense. 
In addition to covering fruits and vegetables, the Federal quarantine includes 
special restrictions on the movement of soil, earth, peat compost, and manure, 
fruit-packing equipment, and nursery stock. It is further provided that rail- 
way cars, boats, and other vehicles and containers which have been used in 
transporting restricted articles must be thoroughly cleaned at the point of un- 
loading and fumigation may also be required in special cases when necessary. 
A state-wide inspection will be made of all citrus groves and other fruit plant- 
ings as well as of host vegetables. Such surveys, together with the inspection 
and certification requirements of fruits and vegetables, including the supervision 
of all packing houses and other places handling or processing such fruit, will 
involve very large forces of men. Of necessity also rather intensive and wide 
surveys should be undertaken in the neighboring States of Georgia, Alabama, 
Mississippi, etc., for the purpose of determining whether there may have been 
any spread into these States through the agency particularly of the truck fruit 
from Florida. This work is of such magnitude, it is believed, as fully to war- 
rant the making available of the $4,250,000 item which is now before Congress 
for consideration. 
Consideration of the joint resolution introduced yesterday by Mr. Wood, 
chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, 
for the transfer of the $4,250,000 item referred to in the previous paragraph 
was given at an informal meeting of the Appropriations Committee of the 
House this morning and this joint resolution received the approval of the 
House directly after. It now goes to the Senate, where its prompt considera- 
tion is anticipated. 
