April, '14] HUNTER: BOLL WEEVIL QUARANTINE 239 



The articles not restricted are as follows: 



Baled cotton, flat or compressed; linters and loose cotton lint; cotton 

 seed meal, cake or oil; corn shelled or in the ear, with shuck removed, 

 oats or any other seed except cotton seed; hay; empty freight cars. 



Tennessee 



The articles restricted are as follows: 



Seed cotton; cotton seed; seed cotton sacks, cotton seed sacks; 

 cotton pickers' sacks, any of which have been used within eight months 

 for any of the purposes indicated; cotton seed hulls between August 

 1 and December 31; Spanish moss and corn in shuck between October 

 1 and June 30; living w^eevil stages or weevil work in possession of any 

 person outside of the infested territory except a qualified entomologist; 

 household goods containing any of the foregoing, during the period of 

 quarantine applied to each. 



The unrestricted articles are as follows : 



Baled cotton, flat or compressed; linters and loose cotton lint; cotton 

 seed meal, cake and oil; corn shelled or in the ear, with shuck removed, 

 oats or any other seed except cotton seed; cotton seed shown by affidavit 

 to have been sacked continuously for nine months or more; cotton 

 seed for planting purposes after fumigation with carbon dioxide by a 

 competent entomologist; hay, empty freight cars. 



Texas 



A rule of the commissioner of agriculture makes it illegal to ship 

 seed cotton or cotton seed, or any other articles which might carry the 

 boll weevil from an infested to an uninfested county. 



Value of Quarantines 



The most definite statement regarding the practical value of boll 

 weevil quarantines in the literature was made by Mr. W. Newell as 

 follows : 



"Prior to the enforcement of quarantine regulations by the State 

 Crop Pest Commission, many cases of isolated infestation occurred 

 in the western parishes of the state, most of them being directly trace- 

 able to the bringing of seed cotton or cotton seed from the infested 

 sections of Texas. Since the commission's quarantine regulations, 

 which prohibit the movement of seed cotton, hulls and cotton seed 

 from the infested to the non-infested sections, have been in force not 

 a single isolated outbreak of the boll weevil has been discovered and 

 all of the northeastern and eastern portion of the state is, fortunately, 

 still free from this pest. By means of this quarantine artificial dis- 

 semination of the weevil in Louisiana has been practically an impossi- 

 bility and the spread of the pest into new territory has been limited 



