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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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given such other treatment as may later be approved by the said Bureau, the 
Bureau hereby approves the following alternative treatment : 
Permits may be issued for the interstate movement of baled cotton linters 
ginned from cottonseed grown in a regulated area lightly infested with the pink 
boll worm when such linters are produced from seed which has been heated 
to a temperature of at least 155° F. in approved apparatus under the super- 
vision of an inspector and subsequently handled so as to prevent contamina- 
tion. Such treatment shall be given separate and apart from ginning opera- 
tions and removed from other contaminated cotton products. 
Lek a. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO THURBERIA WEEVIL QUARANTINE 
(NO. 61) 
B. E. P. Q. 436. 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— APPROVAL FOR ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT 
FOR COTTONSEED AS A CONDITION FOR INTERSTATE MOVEMENT FROM AREA 
REGULATED UNDER QUARANTINE NO. 61 
[Issued under regulation 6, quarantine no. 61] 
April 1, 1937. 
Pursuant to authority vested in the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quar- 
antine under regulation 6 of the revised rules and regulations supplemental to 
Notice of Quarantine No. 61, revised, which provides that permits may be 
issued for the interstate movement of cottonseed from the regulated area on 
such conditions as may be prescribed by that Bureau, the Bureau hereby ap- 
proves the follow^ing alternative treatment for cottonseed and permits may be 
issued for the interstate movement of cottonseed so treated : 
When the cottonseed has been sterilized to 145° F. as a part of the con- 
tinuous process of ginning, and in addition has been treated by sulphuric 
acid and screening, and subsequently has been protected from contamination 
in a manner satisfactory to the inspector. 
Avery S, Hoyt, 
Acing Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
TERMINAL INSPECTION OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS 
CALIFORNIA STATE PLANT QUARANTINES 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, April 6, 1937. 
Under plant quarantines and regulations issued by the State of California, 
the shipment into that State of certain plants and plant materials, known to 
be hosts of injurious pests and plant diseases, is subject to certain requirements, 
or entirely prohibited. 
The following table gives a summary of the California quarantine laws and 
regulations, showing the quarantined areas, the plants and plant products 
affected, and the pests and diseases of which such plants are known hosts. 
Under the provisions of paragraph 2 (&). amended section 596, Postal Laws 
and Regulations, postmasters should not accept such plants and plant products 
when presented for mailing in violation of these quarnntine laws and regula- 
tions, and should invite the attention of the mailers thereto. 
Shippers desiring California permits must make application therefor direct 
to the Bureau of Plant Quarantine, State Department of Agriculture, Sacra- 
mento, Calif. 
Postmasters at places in California where State inspection of plants and 
plant products is maintained under the Terminal Inspection Act should take 
the action prescribed by amended paragraph 4 (b), section 596, Postal Laws and 
Regulations, if parcels sent to such otfices for terminal inspection are found 
to be in violation of these plant quarantine laws or regulations. 
Roy M. North, 
Acting Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
