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known as the Texas boll weevil, nor the seed from any cotton from any place where 

 the cotton has been affected with said boll weevil. 



Sec. 2. Any person who violates the provisions of section 1 of this act shall 

 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined not less than ten dollars 

 ($10) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500). 



(H. 877, No. 559, approved October 6, 1903.) 



Recently (January 25, 1905) the State board of horticulture of 

 Alabama has adopted quarantine regulations against the boll weevil, 

 based upon the recommendation for a uniform S3^stcni of quarantine 

 rules made by the association of official entomologists of the cotton belt, 

 an association consisting of State entomologists, together with agents 

 of the Bureau of Entomology of this Department. By these regula- 

 tions an absolute quarantine is established at all seasons of the year 

 against cotton seed, seed cotton, hulls, cotton-seed and seed-cotton 

 sacks which have been used, cotton picker's sacks, corn in the shuck, 

 unsacked corn, unsacked oats, unsacked wheat, and unsacked cowpeas. 

 During the months of July, August, and September there are no 

 restrictions against the importation of hay, straw, sacked wheat, 

 sacked oats, sacked shelled corn, sacked cowpeas, and unbaled Spanish 

 moss, but during the remaining nine months of the year the importation 

 into the State of any of these articles from quarantined counties or 

 parishes is prohibited. Through shipments of quarantined articles 

 may be made in cars which must be tightly closed, and no unloading is 

 allowed during transit through the State. Household goods to be 

 shipped from the infested territory into the State of Alabama must be 

 accompanied by an affidavit attached to the way bill stating that no 

 quarantined articles are contained in the shipment as packing or other- 

 wise. Baled cotton can be shipped into the State only in tightly 

 closed cars. 



Particulars regarding the Alabama quarantine regulations may be 

 obtained by addressing Prof. J. F. Duggar, Experiment Station, 

 Auburn^ Ala. 



Georgia. — Previous to August 15, 1904, the Georgia State board of 

 entomology had authority, b}^ virtue of the legislative act which 

 created it, to enact such regulations as it deemed necessary to prevent 

 the introduction or dissemination of injurious crop pests or diseases. 

 On August 28, 1903, this board adopted a regulation prohibiting the 

 introduction of cotton seed from Texas except under a certificate from 

 an authorized State or Government entomologist stating that the seed 

 had been fumigated in such manner as to kill any stage of boll weevils 

 which might be contained therein. On August 15, 1901, an act of the 

 general assembly of the State of Georgia was approved whereby cot- 

 ton seed, seed cotton, cotton-seed hulls, or cotton lint in bales or loose, 

 oats, hay, fodder, husks, straw, forage of any kind, corn in the husk, 



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