B.E.P.Q. 538 Effective April 23, 1945 
 
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
 
 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION 
 
 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY At'© PLANT QUARANTINE 
 
 MEXICAN FRUITFLY REGULATIONS REVISED,- -STERILIZATION 
 ' OF GRAPEFRUIT REQUIRED 
 
 Introductory Note 
 
 Because of increasing numbers of infestations of Mexican fruit- 
 flies nov; occurring in the regulated area in the Rio Grande 
 Valley it has become necessary to require the sterilization of 
 grapefruit moved interstate from the Texas counties of Cameron, 
 Hidalgo, and Willacy for the remainder of the shipping season 
 ending June 15, 1945, 
 
 s 301.64-4 Administrative instructions relative to the Mexican 
 fruitfly quarantine . Pursuant to the authority conferred upon 
 the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine by 
 paragraph (e) of § 301.64-4 (Notice of Quarantine No. 64), it 
 is hereby required that effective April 23, 1945, and continuing 
 throughout the harvesting season to the close of June 15, 1945, 
 all grapefruit, as a condition of certification for interstate 
 movement from the Texas counties of Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy, 
 shall be sterilized in accordance with the methods authorized in 
 B.E.P«Q. 472, revised effective September 25, 1941. 
 
 (Sec. 8, 39 Stat. 1165, 44 Stat. 250; 7 CFR § 301,64-4; 7 U.3.C. 
 1940 ed. 161; 9 FR 7291 P 301.64.) 
 
 Done at Washington, D. C, this 13th day of April 1945. 
 
 Avery S. Hoyt 
 
 Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and 
 Plant Quarantine 
 
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 
 
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