LIBRARY 
 STATE  PLANT  BOARD 
 
 UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE 
 
 Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine 
 
 Washington,  D.  C. 
 
 B.  E.  P.  Q.— 372  March  22,  10.35, 
 
 SHIPPING  SEASON  FOR  TEXAS  CITRUS  FRUIT  TO  END  ON  APRIL  2 
 
 (Approved  March  22,  1935;  effective  April  2,  lc35) 
 
 Announcement  is  made  that  the  shipping  season  for  citrus  fruit 
 under  the  Federal  Mexican  fruit  worm  quarantine  (Notice  of  Quarantine 
 No.  6U)  from  the  counties  of  Brooks,  Cameron,  Hidalgo,  and  Willacy,  in 
 Texas,  will  close  for  the  season  on  April  2,  1935*   T^e  host-free 
 period  required  under  the  regulations  to  "be  enforced  "by  the  State  of 
 Texas  will  for  the  year  1935  "begin  on  April  3« 
 
 Under  the  provisions  of  the  quarantine  it  is  required  that  Drior 
 to  the  beginning  of  the  host-free  period  each  year  all  citrus  fruit  ex- 
 cept lemons  and  sour  limes  shall  "be  removed  from  the  trees  for  shipment, 
 storage,  or  sale,  and  all  other  host  fruits  shall  he  destroyed  either 
 following  removal  from  the  trees  or  by  destruction  of  the  trees  them- 
 selves.  Permits  will  not  "be  issued  for  the  interstate  shipment  of 
 citrus  fruits  after  the  close  of  April  2  except  as  to  such  fruits  shipped 
 from  approved  storage. 
 
 This  order  modifies  an  announcement  made  "by  the  Department  on 
 January  2U,  1935?  when  the  current  shipping  season  was  extended  to  in- 
 clude April  15,  193 5*  r^e   modification  is  necessary  owing  to  the  recent 
 discovery  of  Mexican  fruit  flies  and  infested  fruit  within  the  regulated 
 area  and  the  importance  of  instituting  the  host-free  period  without  de- 
 lay in  or^er  to  avoid  the  further  establishment  of  infestation  in  the 
 groves. 
 
 LEE  A.  STRONG, 
 Chief,  Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine, 
 
UNIVERSITY  OF  FLORIDA 
 
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