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North Carolina. — By virtue of authority from the State leo^islature, 

 to prevent the importation of crop pests, the North Carolina crop 

 pest commission early in 1004 adopted rules establishing a quarantine, 

 against all localities where the Mexican cotton boll weevil is known to 

 exist. The quarantine was absolute, and applied to cotton, cotton seed, 

 cotton-seed meal, cotton-seed hulls, hay, oats, corn, rice, straw, rice 

 chaflf, and other grain or material likel}^ to harbor anj^ stage of the 

 boll weevil. On August 15, 1904, new quarantine regulations were 

 adopted and substituted for the previous ones, conforming very nearly 

 with the recon'imendations of the association of official entomologists 

 of the cotton belt, and also with the Alabama and Mississippi rules, 

 w^hich have been described in previous paragraphs. The North Caro- 

 lina quarantine regulations now in force differ from those of the States 

 of Alabama and Mississippi only in the following particulars^ Cotton 

 and cotton-seed meal are included among the articles against Avhicli 

 the quarantine is absolute at all times. The restrictions concerning 

 Spanish moss in the North Carolina regulations specify only unbaled 

 moss, as do those of Alabama. 



Prof. Franklin Sherman, jr., Raleigh, N. C, is the quarantine officer 

 in this State. 



Oklahoma. — The Oklahoma legislature is now considering a boll weevil 

 quarantine act. At the tiiue of w^'iting, however, no definite action 

 has been taken. 



South Carolina. — In South Carolina, as in Alabama and Georgia, the 

 quarantine regulations are entirel}^ embodied in the laws of the State 

 and consequently not as readil}' modified to conform with the changed 

 conditions and a better understanding of the methods of dissemination 

 of the boll weevil, as is the case when authorit}^ to promulgate rules 

 and regulations is invested in a couuuission or in the State entomolo- 

 gist. The law established to guard against the introduction of the 

 Mexican boll weevil into the State of South Carolina was approved on 

 February 25, 1904. The commodities quarantined against were cotton 

 seed,oats, and prairie hay, shipped directly or indirectly from infested 

 points in the State of Texas. 



Prof. C. E. Chambliss, Clemson College, South Carolina, can fur- 

 nish information concerning the interpretation of this law. 



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