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shipmont, otherwise such articles must be emptied. The affidavit is 

 to accompany' the waj" bill. 



Mr. A\^ilmon Newell, Shreveport, La., is the quarantine officer of 

 this State. 



Mississippi. — An act of the State legislature entitled "'A boll weevil 

 quarantine act," approved March 18, 1904, empowers the State ento- 

 mologist to prevent in every possible and practical wa}^ the introduction 

 of the Mexican cotton boll weevil into that State by adopting and enforc- 

 ing rules and regulations governing the transportation of farm prod- 

 ucts. A quarantine was instituted against 131 Texas counties and one 

 Louisiana parish, as well as all other communities and parishes in which 

 the boll weevil might be found to exist. The quarantined articles included 

 cotton seed, cotton-seed hulls, cotton-seed meal, sacks used to hold 

 these materials, ha}-^, oats, straw, and corn. Nurserj^ stock, fruit, and 

 garden truck were accepted under these rules only when accompanied 

 by a certificate of inspection by the Entomologist of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. All farm products passing through the 

 State of Mississippi were required to be in tightly closed cars and not 

 opened, unloaded, or sidetracked for more than twelve hours duHng 

 transit across the State. These rules were amended to permit, during 

 the summer months, the unrestricted shipment of oats into and through 

 the State. On September 1, 190-1, the rules and regulations referred 

 to above were rescinded in toto, and a new set of rules went into effect, 

 based on the recommendations for a uniform sj^stem of quarantine 

 rules b}' the association of official entomologists of the cotton belt. 

 These rules and regulations specify the same quarantined territory as 

 did those for which the}' were substituted. An absolute quarantine is 

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

 cotton-seed sacks (which have been used), cotton-pickers' sacks, corn 

 in the shuck, unsacked corn, unsacked oats, unsacked wheat, and 

 unsacked cowpeas from the quarantined territory. During the months 

 of July, August, and September there are no restiictions against the 

 importation of hay, straw, sacked wheat, sacked oats, sacked shejled 

 corn, sacked cowpeas, unbaled or baled Spanish moss, but during the 

 remaining nine months of the year all of these articles from quaran- 

 tined counties and parishes are prohibited from entering the State of 

 Mississippi. Through shipments of quarantined articles must be 

 in tightl}' closed cars, Avhich must not be unloaded while in transit 

 through the State. Household goods to be shipped from the infested 

 territory into the State of Mississippi must be accompanied by an 

 affidavit to the effect that no quarantined articles are contained as 

 packing or otherwise in the shipment . Baled cotton can be shipped 

 into the State only in tightl}^ closed cars. 



Prof. G. W. Herrick, Agricultural College, Miss., is the quarantine 

 officer of this State. 



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