98 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [April-June 
iNSTBucrrioxs to Postmasters 
Post Office Dfj»artment, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washiugtou, April 20, 1937. 
Postmaster: 
My Df„\r Sir: Yowx attention is invited to the inclosed copy of Plant Quar- 
antine No. 52 of the United States Department of Agriculture on account of 
the pink boUworm of cotton, and also a copy of revised regulation 3 in con- 
nection therewith, effective April 6, 1937, by which you will please be gov- 
erned. See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
The revision extends the regulated area adding the counties of Sierra in 
New Mexico, and the Texas counties of Crane, Loving, Upton, and Winkler 
to the area designated as lightly infested by the pink bollworm. 
Very truly yours, 
Roy :m. North, 
Actwg Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
B. E. P. Q. 414 (revised). 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— TREATMENT REQUIREMENTS REMOVED AS A 
CONDITION FOR INTERSTATE SHIPMENT OF BALED LINT AND LINTERS, AND 
PRODUCTS THEREOF, FROM CERTAIN SPECIFIED PINK BOLLWORM LIGHTLY 
INFESTED AREAS OF NEW MEXICO AND TEXAS 
[Issued under regulations 8, 9, and 10 of quarantine no. 52] 
May 27, 1937. 
In accordance with the authorizations contained in regulations 8, 9, and 
10, quarantine no. 52, on account of the pink bollworm, notice is hereby given 
that baled cotton lint, baled cotton linters, and products thereof, from all of 
Lea and Roosevelt Counties of the pink bollworm regulated area in New 
Mexico and from that part of the pink bollworm regulated area in Texas 
comprising the counties of Andrews, Cochran, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glass- 
cock, Hockley, Howard, Martin, Midland, Terry, and Yoakum, and those parts 
of the counties of Bailey and Lamb particularly described in regulation 3 of 
amendment no. 2 to revised rules and regulations supplemental to Notice of 
Quarantine No. 52, may be moved interstate without restriction other than that 
a permit issued by the United States Department of Agriculture must be 
secured and attached to the articles or shipping papers in accordance with 
the methods prescribed in regulation 15 of said quarantine. 
These administrative instructions amend and supersede administrative in- 
structions B. E. P. Q. 414, dated September 28, 1936, and are issued for the 
purpose of including all of the counties of Dawson and Midland and the 
adjacent counties of Glasscock, Howard, and Martin, which have recently been 
added to the area described therein. 
Lee a. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Enfoniolof/y and Plant Quarantine. 
B. E. P. Q. 450. 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS; APPROVAL OF ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT FOR 
THE INTERSTATE MOVEMENT OF BALED COTTON LINTERS GINNED FROM 
COTTONSEED PRODUCED IN AREAS LIGHTLY INFESTED WITH THE PINK 
BOLLWORM 
[Issued under regulation 9, quarantine no. 52] 
May 27, 1937. 
Pursuant to authority vested in the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quar- 
antine under reguhition 9 of the rules and regulations supplemental to Notice 
of Quarantine No. 52 (revised), which provides that baled linters produced 
in a lightly infested area to be shipped interstate to nonreguhited territory 
must be either fumigated under vacuum, or compressed, or roller treated, or 
