88 BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE 
[July-Sept. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO PINK-BOLLWORM QUARANTINE 
(NO. 52) 
B. P. Q.— 342 September 12, 1932. 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— OMISSION OF FUMIGATION AUTHORIZED FOR 
COTTON LINT, LINTERS, AND SAMPLES MOVED FROM CERTAIN COUNTIES IN 
TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, AND ARIZONA 
(Issued under paragraph 2 (a), section A, regulation 5, Quarantine No. 52, as amended and revised) 
(Amending and superseding administrative instructions, P. Q. C. A.— 318, effective August 1, 1931) 
(Approved September 12, 1932; effective September 15, 1932) 
Paragraph (2) of section A, regulation 5, of the revised rules and regulations 
supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 52, revised May 20, 1932, provides 
that — 
"permits, authorizing the interstate movement of cotton lint, linters, and sam- 
ples, may be issued upon condition that the material has been produced in a gin 
in which all cottonseed is sterilized in manner and by method satisfactory to the 
inspector, that it has been so ginned as to prevent the inclusion of cottonseed, 
that it has been protected in a manner satisfactory to the inspector from con- 
tamination with cottonseed, and that it has, in addition, b^en given such com- 
pression, fumigation, or other treatment" as is prescribed with respect to the 
class of material concerned and the area in which it was grown. 
The following is given as one of the additional alternative requirements for 
the issuance of such permits: 
"(a) If the material was produced in areas in which the pink bollworm infesta- 
tion is so light that in the judgment of the Plant Quarantine and Control Adminis- 
tration fumigation may be omitted, permits may be issued on condition that the 
material either has been given standard or high-density compression and when 
ready for transportation has a density of at least 22 pounds to the cubic foot, or 
has been passed through special roller equipment in such manner that in the 
judgment of the inspector all cottonseed and larva? therein would be crushed." 
Notice is hereby given that the areas in which pink-bollworm infestation is so 
light that in the judgment of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine (formerly known as 
the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration) fumigation of the above 
material may be omitted without involving risk of spread of the pink bollworm 
are as follows : 
Texas. —The counties of Pecos, Reeves, Ward, Loving, El Paso, Winkler, 
Andrews, Ector, Midland, Crane, and Upton, and that part of the Rio Grande 
Valley in the southwest corner of Hudspeth County located north and west of a 
ridge of desert land, extending from the banks of the Rio Grande northeasterly 
through the desert immediately west of the town of McXary, such ridge being 
an extension of the northwest boundary line of section 1 1, block 65 %. 
New Mexico. —The counties of Chaves, Eddy, Otero, Dona Ana, Luna, Grant, 
and Hidalgo. 
Arizona. — The counties of Greenlee and Maricopa, and all those portions of 
Graham and Pinal Counties not included in the regulated area designated under 
Quarantine Xo. 61 (revised), on account of the Thurberia weevil. 
Accordingly, effective September 15, 1932, so long as the present freedom 
from general infestation shall be maintained, or until further notice, the issuance 
of permits for the interstate movement from the regulated areas to points outside 
thereof of cotton lint, linters, and samples, which have either been given standard 
or high-density compression and when ready for transportation have a density of 
at least 22 pounds to the cubic foot, or have been passed through special roller 
equipment in such manner that in the judgment of the inspector all cottonseed 
and larva? therein would be crushed and which have been produced and ginned 
in the areas designated, is authorized without requiring the further safeguard of 
fumigation. 
Such cotton lint, linters, and samples shall, as a condition of certification, 
however, be handled in compliance with the following restrictions: (1) That such 
material has been produced in a gin in which all cottonseed is sterilized in manner 
and by method satisfactory to the inspector; (2) that it has been so ginned as to 
prevent the inclusion of cottonseed; and (3) that it has been protected in a 
manner satisfactory to the inspector from contamination with cottonseed. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
