S. E. A.— P. Q. C. A. No. 99 Issued December, 1929 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
PLANT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
APRIL-JUNE, 1929 
CONTENTS 
Record of current work, April 1 to June 30, 1929: Page 
Mediterranean fruit fly 50 
Extent of infestation _ 50 
Quarantine action 51 
Destruction of fruit 51 
Spraying 51 
Elimination of summer host fruits 52 
Cleaning of railway cars and boats at destination 52 
Road station operation 53 
Prevention of spread of gipsy moth 53 
European corn-borer-quarantine enforcement 54 
Local eradication measures 55 
State legislation 55 
Extent of regulated areas 55 
Mexican fruit-worm eradication 56 
Reappearance of the fruit worm in Texas 56 
Enforcement of a nonhost or starvation period 56 
Fruit movement . _ 56 
Japanese-beetle control.. 57 
Trapping adult beetles 57 
Soil treatment and spraying 57 
Inspection, treatment, and certification of restricted articles 58 
Quarantine violations 59 
Prevention of spread of pink bollworm 59 
Parlatoria date-scale eradication 59 
White-pine blister-rust quarantine enforcement 60 
Pine shipping permits 60 
New State legislation 60 
Transit inspection 60 
Quarantine and other official announcements: 
Asiatic-beetle quarantine (No. 66) 02 
Instructions to postmasters 62 
District of Columbia plant regulations 62 
Instructions to postmasters 62 
Japanese-beetle quarantine (No. 48) 62 
Instructions to postmasters 02 
Instructions to inspectors on the disinfection of nursery products for the Japanese and Asiatic 
beetles (P. Q. C. A. 224) 63 
Japanese-beetle traps set in areas of light infestation (press notice) 70 
Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine (No. 68). 77 
Mediterranean fruit fly discovered in Florida (press notice) 77 
Notice of public hearing to consider the advisability of quarantining the State of Florida on 
account of the Mediterranean fruit fly... 77 
Florida to be quarantined on account of the fruit fly (press notice) 78 
Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine issued (press notice) 70 
Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine (effective May 1, 1929) 
Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine revised (press notice) 
M I'd iterranean fruit-fly quarantine revised (effective May 10, 1929) 91 
Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine revised to prohibit reshipments of Florida fruits and 
vegetables from Northeastern States to South and West (press notice) 11-' 
Mediterranean fruit-fly quarantine revised (effective June 7, 1929) 113 
Nursery-stock, plant, and seed quarantine (No. 37) 11^ 
Entry of narcissus bulbs for propagation in the fall of 1929 (P. Q. I 118 
Phony peach-disease quarantine (No. 07) ... 11> 
Georgia and Alabama quarantined on account of the phony peach disease (press ootioe . lis 
Quarantine on account of the phony peach disease 119 
Pink-boll worm quarantine (No, 52)„__. 
Pink-bollwonn regulated area modified (pn 
Modification of pfnk-bollworm quarantine 12 ' 
\\ oodgate-rust quarantine (No. 65) 
Instructions to postmasters . 12. r ' 
Miscellaneous items 
Convictions for violations of the plant quarantine act 
Organization of t lie Plant Quarantine and Control Administration 129 
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