26 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
state without restriction from the following area: New Mexico: Lea and 
Roosevelt Counties. Texas: Counties of Andrews, Cochran, Dawson, Ector, 
Gaines, Glasscock, Hockley, Howard, Martin, Midland, Terry, Yoakum, and 
the regulated parts of Bailey and Lamb Counties: Provided, (1) That the 
products have been produced in an authorized gin or oil mill and subsequently 
protected from contamination, and (2) that a certificate of the United States 
Department of Agriculture has been obtained and attached to the containers 
or shipping papers in accordance with the requirements prescribed in regula- 
tion 11 (sec. 301.52-11) of said quarantine. 
The removal of the treatment requirements until further notice for the 
above-mentioned products is considered safe, due to the harvesting of the crop 
late in the season, the inability of the pink boll worm to survive the low tem- 
peratures of the winter, and the occurrence late in the season of only a light, 
sporadic infestation in the areas described. (Sec. 301.52-4b, issued under 
authority contained in sec. 301.52-4.) 
S. A. Rohweb, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
B. E. P. Q. 194. 
Administrative Instructions — Modifying Restrictions of the Pink Boll worm 
Quarantine Regulations by Lifting Certain Requirements as to Samples of 
Lint Cotton 
March 30, 1939. 
Under authority contained in the second proviso in Notice of Quarantine No. 
52, revised ( sec. 301.52 ) , and having determined that facts exist as to the pest 
risk involved which make it safe to modify, by making less stringent, the re- 
strictions contained in paragraph (a) of regulation 4 (sec. 301.52-4) of the 
pink bollworm quarantine, notice is hereby given that samples of lint cotton 
originating in a lightly infested area may be moved interstate without restric- 
tion other than (1) that the bales of lint cotton from which the samples are 
taken have been produced in an authorized gin and subsequently protected 
from contamination, and (2) that a certificate issued by the United States 
Department of Agriculture has been obtained and attached in accordance with 
the requirements of regulation 11 (sec. 301.52-11). 
The removal of treatment requirements for samples of lint cotton originating 
in the lightly infested areas is considered safe owing to the marked improve- 
ment in ginning methods and machinery, making it improbable that a sample 
(approximately 1% pounds) of cotton lint, drawn from a bale for grading 
and stapling, would contain even one seed in which the pink bollworm might 
be harboring. 
This modification shall remain in effect until further notice. (Sec. 301.52-4c, 
issued under authority contained in sec. 301.52-4.) 
S. A. Rohwer, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE 
QUARANTINE (NO. 72) 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, January 30, 1939. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir: Your attention is invited to the inclosed administrative instruc- 
tions issued by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States 
Department of Agriculture, in connection with Federal Quarantine Order No. 
72 on account of the white-fringed beetle. 
Under these instructions no certificate of inspection will be required during 
the period from January 15 to July 1, 1939, in connection with the acceptance 
for mailing of the articles named therein when free from soil and when shipped 
