1939] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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from any of the regulated areas in the county of Mobile. Ala. ; county of Escam- 
bia, Fla. ; parish of East Baton Rouge, La. ; and counties of Hinds. Jackson, 
and Pearl River. Miss. 
Postmasters will please take note and be governed accordingly. See para- 
graph 1, section 595. Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
B. E. P. Q. 485. 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— REMOVAL OF WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE CER- 
TIFICATION REQUIREMENTS UNTIL JULY 1, 1939, FOR SPECIFIED ARTICLES 
CONSIGNED FROM DESIGNATED PORTIONS OF THE REGULATED AREAS 
[Approved January 14, 1939 ; effective January 15, 1939] 
Under authorization provided in Notice of Quarantine No. 72 all certification 
requirements are hereby waived during the regulated periods from January 15 
to June 30, 1939, inclusive, of the following articles enumerated in regulation 
3 (a) and (&), when free from soil and when consigned from any of the regu- 
lated areas in the county of Mobile, Ala. ; county of Escambia, Fla. ; parish of 
East Baton Rouge, La. ; and counties of Hinds, Jackson, and Pearl River, Miss. ; 
it having been determined that sanitary measures and natural conditions have 
sufficiently reduced the risk of egg or adult contamination as to render certifi- 
cation unnecessary during the periods indicated : 
Potatoes and sweetpotatoes ; sweetpotato vines, draws, and cuttings ; cord- 
wood, pulp wood, stump wood, and logs ; used or unused lumber, timbers, posts, 
poles, cross ties, and other building materials ; hay, roughage of all kinds, straw, 
leaves, and leafmold ; peas, beans, and peanuts in shells, or the shells of any 
of these products ; seed cotton, cottonseed, baled cotton lint, and linters ; used 
implements and machinery, scrap metal, junk, utensils or containers coming in 
contact with the ground ; brick, tiling, stone, and concrete slabs and blocks ; 
nursery stock and other plants, which are free from soil. 
The restrictions on the interstate movement from any of the regulated areas, 
of the following articles designated in paragraph (a) (1) of regulation 3 of 
Quarantine No. 72, as carriers of larvae remain in effect throughout the year : 
Soil, earth, sand, clay, peat, compost, and manure whether moved independent 
of, or in connection with or attached to nursery stock, plants, products, articles, 
or things. (Sec. 301.72a, issued under authority contained in sec. 301.72.) 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
B. E. P. Q. 486. 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— MODIFYING THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE WHITE- 
FRINGED BEETLE QUARANTINE BY AUTHORIZING TREATMENT OF PLANTS IN 
POTS OR IN SOIL BALLS NOT EXCEEDING THREE (3) INCHES IN DIAMETER 
January 28, 1939. 
Recent experimental work by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
of the United States Department of Agriculture has proven that certain potted 
plants, hereinafter listed, can safely and successfully be fumigated for the 
control of white-fringed beetle. 
TREATMENT AUTHORIZED 
Under provisions contained in Regulation 5(a) (sec. 301.72-5) supplemental 
to Notice of Quarantine No. 72 (see. 301.72), the Chief of the Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine authorizes as a prerequisite to certification, 
the following method of treatment, for certain kinds and sizes of potted and 
balled and burlapped plants, when done under the supervision of an authorized 
inspector of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
