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consider that there would be any danger whatever in the use of hay 

 or straw for this purpose. 



Household goods have caused great confusion in quarantine regula- 

 tions. The origin of the quarantine of household goods on the part 

 of several States was the knowledge of very extensive emigration of 

 negro tenants from infested portions of Texas to all parts of the South. 

 It is the custom of such emigrants to carry along small quantities of 

 special cotton seed, as well as to use cotton seed or seed cotton in 

 packing furniture and other articles. As these practices involve the 

 possible shipment of some of the commodities which should be quar- 

 antined, it is suggested that the shipment of household goods should 

 be prohibited in all cases where the consignments are not accompanied 

 by affidavits attached to the wayliill stating that no cotton seed or other 

 articles named as dangerous in a preceding paragraph are included. 



The quarantine officer should have ample authority to modify, in 

 special cases, whatever rules and regulations are promulgated. Such 

 special cases might occur, for instance, in the treatment of baled cotton. 

 There is no doubt that a general quarantine should be enforced against 

 this product. There is considerable danger in shipping baled cotton to 

 mills where cotton fields are adjacent, since the bagging around bales 

 that have been stored near gins in infested territory might easily carry 

 weevils. Nevertheless, a general quarantine should not be made to 

 apply to shipments of baled cotton to miWs in the cities, or to shipments 

 to ports for direct export. jVlan}^ similar cases where special action 

 may be necessary will arise from time to time. The best method for 

 providing for such cases is to grant considerable l)readth of authority 

 to the quarantine officei". 



PRESENT QUARANTINES OF THE SEVERAL STATES. 



Quarantines designed to prevent the importation of the boll weevil 

 are now in force in the following six States: Alabama, Georgia, 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina. They are 

 directed against all counties in Texas and parishes in Louisiana that 

 arc indicated as infested on the map on page IS, as well as against such 

 counties or parishes as may become infested in the future. The follow- 

 ing pages give the substance of the present restrictions. For further 

 particidars the quarantine officers of the several States should be 

 addressed directl3\ 



Alabama. — The following act of the Alabama legislature was 

 approved October 6, 1903: 



AN ACT To prevent and prohibit tlie importation of seed from cotton affoeted with the Texas boll 



weevil. 



Sectiox 1. Be It enacted by the legislature of Alabama, That no person sluill import 

 or bring into the f^tate of Alabama anv seed from anv rotton affected witli what is 



