96 BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 6 AND TO THE REGULATIONS 
SUPPLEMENTAL THERETO 
(Approved November 18, 1932; effective December 1, 1932) 
Under authority conferred by the plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (37 
Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 
1134, 1165), it is ordered that Notice of Quarantine No. 6 (domestic), and the 
regulations supplemental thereto, issued on March 1, 1913, to prevent the spread 
of the date-palm scale insects, be and the same are hereby amended to eliminate 
all reference in such quarantine and regulations to the Phoenicococcus scale 
(Pheonicococcus marlatti). Certificates may hereafter be issued under those 
regulations authorizing the interstate movement of date palms and date-palm 
offshoots from the areas named therein to outside points on condition that such 
palms or offshoots are free from the Parlatoria scale {Parlatoria blanchardi) . 
This amendment shall be effective on and after December 1, 1932. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of November, 1932. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal] R. W. Dunlap, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Foregoing amendment sent to all common carriers doing business in or through the States of Arizona, 
California, and Texas.] 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Plant Quarantine, 
Washington, D. C, November 18, 1932. 
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority 
conferred on him by the plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), 
as amended, has promulgated an amendment to Notice of Quarantine No. 6 and 
to the regulations supplemental thereto, on account of the date-palm scale insects, 
effective December 1. 1932. Under the amendment all references in such 
quarantine and regulations to the Phoenicococcus scale {Phoenicococcus marlatti) 
are eliminated. Hereafter evidence of freedom from Parlatoria scale will con- 
stitute the basis for issuing Federal permits for the shipment or transportation of 
date palms or date-palm offshoots from the regulated areas of California, Arizona, 
and Texas. 
Copies of the said amendment may be obtained from the Bureau of Plant 
Quarantine, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
R. W. Dunlap, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
(Published in the following newspapers: Arizona Republican, Phoenix, Ariz., November 29, 1932; Imperial 
Valley Press, El Centro, Calif., November 29, 1932; the Times, Laredo, Tex., November 28, 1932.] 
Instructions to Postmasters — Removal of Red Scale from Date-Palm 
Scale Insect Quarantine 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, December 5, 1932. 
Inclosed is a copy of Amendment No. 1 to Notice of Quarantine No. 6, on 
account of date scale insects, and to the regulations supplemental thereto, effective 
December 1, 1932. This amendment removes the red date scale, also known as 
the Phoenicococcus scale, from consideration under this quarantine. 
Please be governed by the instructions in the amended regulations. 
F. A. TlLTON, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
