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or all material packed in anything originating on a farm or plantation, 

 is prohibited from being brought into the State except when there m 

 attached thereto a certificate signed b}^ an authorized State or Govern- 

 ment entomologist to the effect that said material was grown in and was 

 shipped from a point where, b}^ actual inspection, the Mexican cotton 

 boll weevil was not found to exist. 



Mr. R. 1. Smith, Capitol, Atlanta, is the present quarantine official 

 in Georgia. 



Louisiana. — A special session of the State legislature enacted a law 

 approved December 15, 1903, creating a Louisiana crop pest commis- 

 sion, which was authorized to promulgate and enforce such rules and 

 regulations as seemed necessary in order to prevent the further spread 

 or introduction into the State of the Mexican cotton boll weevil. The 

 original rules and regulations of this commission were adopted on 

 Februarj' 5, 1904, and since then have been amended in man}^ particu- 

 lars. At first prohibiting the importation of all farm products from 

 practically all cotton-producing counties in Texas, they w^ere after- 

 wards modified, at the suggestion of and b\" arrangement with the 

 Bureau of Entomology, in such a manner that all farm products 

 except cotton seed, seed cotton, hulls, cotton-seed and seed-cotton 

 sacks, haj^ and straw were accepted for importation from Texas into 

 Louisiana on the certificate of the Entomologist of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture or his dul}' accredited representative. 

 Corn, wheat, oats, and other grains, and cowpeas, by this arrange- 

 ment, w^ere to be certified to onh' during the months of July, August, 

 and September. On December 14, 1904, the crop pest commission 

 raised all quarantine restrictions on the last-mentioned commodities. 

 Cotton seed, seed cotton, hulls, cotton-seed and seed-cotton sacks, hay, 

 and straw in any form, whether as a packing for household goods, 

 stufling for mattresses, pillows, and cushions, or feed for stock, are 

 absolutely prohibited from being shipped into Louisiana from 131 

 listed counties of Texas considered to be infested, as well as all others 

 which ma}' become infested with the cotton boll weevil, or from being 

 shipped from an infested parish in Louisiana into an uninfested par- 

 ish. Shipments through the State of quaraijtined articles must be 

 handled in original tightly closed cars without unloading at any point 

 within the State. 



The present regulations prohibit the importation of household goods 

 from infested localities when any of the above-mentioned quarantined 

 articles are used as packing or in an}' othier wa}'. Shipments of mat- 

 tresses, pillows, and cushions, filled with cotton, ha}', straw, shucks, 

 or other quarantined articles, are prohibited. Shippers are required 

 to execute affidavits to the effect that mattresses, etc., have been filled 

 with the substance contained for at least eighteen months before 



