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FEDERAL
VOLUME 5

REGSTER
1934 y O N in o

NUMBER 54

W ashington, Tuesday, M a rch 19, 1940
Rules, Regulations, Orders TITLE 7AGRICULTURE

TYPE OF MATERIAL AUTHORIZED

For the more common species, P. leuco CHAPTER 3 BUREAU OP ENTOMOL loma. The treatment shall be applied O G Y AND PLA N T QUARANTINE
only to plants in soil balls not greater than seven 7 inches in diameter nor B. E. P. Q. 503 Rev.1
greater than seven 7 inches in thick W h it e -F ringed B eetle Q ua r a nt ine ness when not spherical.
R estrictio ns M odified For the new species, P. peregrinus.
M arch 15, 1940.
The treatment shall be applied only to 301.72-5c Administrative Instruc plants in soil balls not greater than six tionsModifying the restrictions o f the 6 inches in diameter nor greater than white-fringed beetle quarantine "by au six 6 inches in thickness when not thorizing treatment by methyl bromide spherical.
solution of balled nursery stock of speci TREATMENT METHOD
fied thickness Introductory note. The instructions in circular BJ3P.Q. 503 is For Both Species o f W hite-Fringed Beetle sued on November 21, 1939, provided for i a The soil balls around the Toots of treatment of nursery stock by a solution plants must be buried in sand and of methyl bromide for larvae of the plunged in boxes or trays approximately white-fringed beetle and limited the one foot deep, which are watertight.
treatment to balled and burlapped nur b A 2-inch space filled with sand sery stock with soil balls not larger than shall be provided between the soil balls, 6 inches in diameter, and provided for also above and beneath them.
an exposure of 24 hours at temperatures c Such soil balls shall be treated of 70 or above. As a result of more with a solution of methyl bromide and recent investigations, the instructions are alcohol at a concentration of 0.3 percent now revised to provide that soil balls 7 methyl bromide and 0.6 percent dena inches in diameter may be so exposed for tured ethyl alcohol by volume in water.
8 hours at a minimum temperature of 65. The solution is to be prepared by first The modification is restricted, however, mixing the methyl bromide and alcohol to treatment for larvae of the more com together and then adding this mixture mon species of the beetle, Pantomorus to the water and mixing thoroughly.
leucoloma Boh., and does not apply to d The aqueous solution of methyl such treatment for the new species, P. bromide and alcohol shall then be applied peregrinus Buch., known to exist at pres evenly over the surface of the sand ent at Gulfport and certain other points around the plants at the rate of 40 gal in Mississippi. The former specifications lons per 100 square feet of surface area remain in effect for treatment of larvae by means of a sprinkling can or sprayer.
of that species and are brought forward Exposure and temperature for the more in the instructions which follow.
common species P. leucoloma TREATMENT AUTHORIZED

Under the provisions of Regulation 5
a 301.72-5 supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 72 301.72, the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine? hereby authorizes as a prerequisite to certification, the following method of treatment for balled plants, when carried out under the supervision 14 F.R. 4667.

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of an authorized inspector of the United States Department of Agriculture.

RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T it l e 7 A g r ic u l t u r e :

Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine:
White-fringed beetle quaran tine restrictions modi fied _____________________
Soil Conservation Service:
Land conservation and utili zation program, amend ment of administrative functions________________
Sugar Division:
Puerto Rico, 1939-1940 sugar cane crop, price revision.
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Bureau of Animal Industry:
Counties placed in modified tuberculosis-free accred ited areas_____________
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Arms, etc., special purchasing procedure_________________
Commissioned officers and chap lains, regulations amended.
Reserve Officers Training Corps, regulations amended_____
T I tle 24 H o u s in g C r e d it :
Home Owners Loan Corpora tion:
Property management:
Contracts as to classes of persons who may purchase property________
Plans and terms of sale____
Property Committee func tions__________________
Sales to close relatives, part ners, etc., of brokers___
e After the required dosage has been applied, the soil balls shall remain em NOTICES
bedded in the sand for a period of 8 hours.
f The temperature o f the soil balls during the treatment shall not be lower Department of Agriculture:
Division of Marketing and Mar than 65 P.
keting Agreements:
Exposure and temperature for the new Bartlett pears, etc., grown in species P. peregrinus California, hearing on handling o f ______________
g After the required dosage has been applied, the soil balls shall remain em -
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