52 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [April-June 
vesting season closes on April 30 as to these three counties and the portion of 
Jim Wells County which is under regulation. No modification is made as to the 
harvesting seasons in these counties. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief of Bureau. 
[Filed with the Division of the Federal Register April 3, 1941, 11 : 35 a. in. ; 6 F. R. 1783.] 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE 
QUARANTINE (NO. 72) 
B. E. P. Q. 485", Eighth Revision. Effective May 1, 1941. 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
Part 301 — Domestic Quarantine Notices 
white-fringed beetle regulations modified 
§ 301.72a — Administrative instructions; removal of certification requirements 
for specified articles, (a) Pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Chief 
of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine by the second proviso of 
§ 301.72, Chapter III, Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations [Notice of Quarantine 
No. 72, on account of the white-fringed beetle], all certification requirements are 
hereby waived effective May 1, 1941, for the periods specified below, for the fol- 
lowing articles enumerated in § 301.72-3. 
(1) When moved interstate from any regulated area, certification requirements 
are waived throughout the year for the following articles when free from soil 
and when sanitation practices are maintained to the satisfaction of the inspector : 
Bird sand and bird gravel in packages of 5 pounds or less. 
Ground peat in amounts not to exceed 5 pounds per package. 
Orchid plants growing exclusively in Osmunda fiber. 
Osmunda fiber (commonly known as Osmundine, or orchid peat). 
Unused lumber. 
Baled cotton lint and linters. 
Cottonseed when free from gin trash. 
(2) When moved interstate from regulated parts of the following counties or 
parishes : In Alabama, Mobile County ; in Florida, Escambia County ; in Louisiana, 
East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, Orleans (including the city of New Orleans), 
Plaquemines, and Saint Bernard Parishes ; in Mississippi, counties of Jackson, 
Hinds, and Pearl River; certification requirements are waived until February 1, 
1942, for the following articles when free from soil and when sanitation practices 
are maintained to the satisfaction of the inspector : 
Potatoes and sweetpotatoes. 
Sweetpotato vines, draws, and cuttings. 
Cordwood, pulpwood, stump wood, and logs. 
Used t,Y unused timbers, posts, poles, cross ties, and other building materials. 
Used lumber. 
Hay, roughage of all kinds, and straw. 
Peas, beans, and peanuts in shells, or the shells of any of these products. 
Seed cotton, and cottonseed when contaminated with gin trash. 
Used implements and machinery, scrap metal, junk, and utensils or con- 
tainers coming in contact with the ground. 
Brick, tiling, stone, and concrete slabs and blocks. 
Nursery stock and other plants, which are free from soil. 
It has been determined that the methods under which such articles and ma- 
terials are produced and handled, the maintenance of sanitation practices, or the 
application of control measures and natural conditions, have so decreased the 
intensity of infestation in certain parts of the regulated areas as to eliminate 
risk of spread of the white-fringed beetle, thereby justifying the removal of 
certification requirements as set forth above. 
