42 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [April-June 
Eradication of this pest, which has been the subjecl of a vigorous eradication 
campaign conducted cooperatively by the affected Suites and the United States 
Department of Agriculture for a number of years, has apparently now been 
effected, as intensive inspection of the previously infested areas has revealed no 
infestation since 1934, the infestation at that time being extremely light. It is 
therefore believed that domestic quarantine restrictions may be removed with 
respect to the Parlatoria scale with safety to the date-growing areas. 
NOTICE OF LIFTING OF DATE-PALM SCALE QUARANTINE 
(Effective on and after July 1, 193G) 
The fact has been determined by the Secretary 'of Agriculture, as a result of 
intensive held inspection work, that there is, at the present time, no known 
infestation in the States of Arizona. California, and Texas or elsewhere in the 
continental United States by the Parlatoria scale {Parlatoria bldnohardi) , and it 
is the belief of the Department that Notice of Quarantine No. 6, on account of 
the Parlatoria scale (Parlatoria blanchardi) and the Phoenicococcus scale (Phoe- 
nicococcus marlatti), with regulations, which was promulgated March 1, 1913, 
aud which became effective on March 24, 1913, as well as amendment no. 1 
thereto, promulgated November 18. 1932, which eliminated all reference in the 
quarantine and regulations to the Phoenicococcus scale, may now be removed 
with safety to the country as a whole. 
Now, therefore, I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, under authority 
conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act, approved August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), 
as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), 
do hereby remove and revoke the quarantine placed by said Notice of Quarantine 
No. 6 and the amendment thereto upon the States of Arizona, California, and 
Texas, and do also hereby remove and revoke the rules and regulations supple- 
mental thereto, such removal and revocation to take effect on July 1, 1936. 
Done at the city of Washington this 11th day of June 1936. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal] H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, June SO, 1936. 
Postmaster. 
My Dear Sir : Your attention is invited to the enclosed notice of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran- 
tine, lifting the date-palm scale quarantine. 
This quarantine (no. 6) was promulgated in March 1913 to regulate the 
interstate movement of date palms and date-palm offshoots from certain areas 
in California, Arizona, and Texas, on account of the Parlatoria scale, an 
injurious date-palm scale insect. By order of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
under date of June 11. 1936, quarantine no. 6 was revoked, effective July 1, 
1936, and thereafter becomes noneffective. 
You will please be governed accordingly. 
Very truly yours, 
C. B. Etlenberger. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO NURSERY STOCK, PLANT, AND 
SEED QUARANTINE (NO. 37) 
B. E. P. Q. 392 
PLANT IMPORTATIONS BY MAIL 
April 13, 1936. 
Experience has shown that many packages containing plant material re- 
st rieted as to entry by foreign plant quarantines are daily being received in 
the mails without permit authorization for such entry, or in violation of a 
prohibition against the importation. Obviously, a large proportion of these 
packages are sent without any knowledge of the quarantine restrictions. At 
