American Fruit

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 87, 17 August 1923, Page 5

American Fruit

DANCER OF FLY AND OTHER PESTS. QUARANTINE PERIOD. Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.25 a.m.) Washington, August 15. The Department of Agriculture, in order to protect American crops from the danger of fruit fly and related pests, has imposed a season of quarantine, to bc%*c« effective from einlpr 1, on all fruits and vegetables offered for import into the United States from all countries except Canada. Tho quarantine excludes fresh fits, peaches, plums, apricots, and other perishable fruits, but an exception is made in favour of Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, based upon assurances from responsible officials regarding the non-existence of these fruit pests. However, the continuance of such privilege depends upon tho continued freedom from fruit-fly infection.