1939] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Barriers should at all times be maintained in a manner that will assure their 
efficiency. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Eyitomology and Plant Quarantine. 
B. E. P. Q. 485, Revised. 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— REMOVAL OF WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE CERTI- 
FICATION REQUIREMENTS UNTIL JULY 1, 1939, FOR SPECIFIED ARTICLES CON- 
SIGNED FROM DESIGNATED PORTIONS OF THE REGULATED AREAS 
(Approved May 6, 1939; effective May 8, 1939) 
Circular B. E. P. Q. 485, issued effective January 15, 1939, waived certifica- 
tion requirements until July 1, 1939, for specified articles consigned from cer- 
tain parts of the areas regulated under quarantine No. 72. The present revi- 
sion adds additional areas in Louisiana from which certification of the same 
articles is waived from May 8 until July 1, 1939. 
Under authorization provided in notice of Quarantine No. 72 (sec. 301.72), 
all certification requirements are hereby waived during the regulated periods 
from May 8 to June 30, 1939, inclusive, of the following articles enumerated 
in regulation 3 (a) and (&), (sec. 301.72-3) when free from soil and when 
consigned from any of the regulated areas in the county of Mobile, Ala. ; county 
of Escambia, Fla. ; parishes of East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, Orleans (includ- 
ing the city of New Orleans), and Plaquemines, La.; and counties of Hinds, 
Jackson, and Pearl River, Miss., it having been determined that sanitary meas- 
ures and natural conditions have sufficiently reduced the risk of egg or adult 
contamination as to render certification unnecessary during the period indicated : 
Potatoes and sweetpotatoes ; sweetpotato vines, draws, and cuttings ; cord- 
wood, pulpwood, 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, and 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 (sec. 301.72-3), 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, arti- 
cles, or things. (Sec. 301.72a, issued under authority contained in sec. 301.72.) 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
[The foregoing circular was sent to all common carriers doing business in or through 
the areas regulated on account of the white-fringed beetle.] 
instructions to postmasters 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, May 16, 1939. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir: Your attention is invited to the inclosed administrative in- 
structions 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 May 8 to July 1, 1939, in connection with the acceptance for 
mailing of the articles named therein when free from soil and when shipped 
from any of the regulated areas in the county of Mobile, Ala., county of Escam- 
bia, Fla., parishes of East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, Orleans (including the city 
of New Orleans), and Plaquemines, La., and counties of Hinds, Jackson, anil 
Pearl River, Miss. 
