106 BUREAU OP ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE t July-Sept. 
PINK BOLLWORM QUARANTINE REGULATIONS FURTHER EXTENDED 
[Press notice] 
September 26, 1939. 
Because of the finding of additional infestations of the pink bollworni in the 
Texas area, the United States Department of Agriculture, effective September 
25, 1939, again extended the quarantine regulations relating to the pink boll- 
worm of cotton, it was announced today. These newly regulated counties, 
Dimmit, Frio, and Zavala, are lightly infested, the Department states, and 
adjoin the counties in southern Texas that were brought within the regulated 
area, effective on September 15 of this year. No change has been made in the 
regulated areas in Arizona or New Mexico by either of these amendments. 
MODIFICATION OF PINK BOLLWORM QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
Introductory Note • 
Additional infestations of the pink bollworm having recently been located in 
Texas, the regulated area is further extended by this amendment, to include 
the Texas counties of Dimmit, Frio, and Zavala, all lightly infested, and all 
contiguous to former regulated area. No other change is made by this amend- 
ment. Regulations 3 and 4. which were revised on September 11, 1939, are 
brought forward as part of the current document, for the convenience of 
shippers and others, and amendment No. 1 is superseded. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE REVISED REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE OF 
QUARANTINE NO. 52 
[Approved September 23, 1939 ; effective September 25, 1939] 
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 regulation 2 (sec. 301.52-2) of the 
revised regulations supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 52 (sec. 301.52) on 
account of the pink bollworm, which were promulgated March 7, 1939, and 
amended September 11, 1939, is hereby still further amended to read as follows : 
Regulation 2 
Sec. 301.52-2. Regulated areas. — The following areas are hereby designated 
as regulated areas within the meaning of these regulations and are further 
classed as heavily or lightly infested : 
Heavily infested areas — Texas. — Counties of Brewster, Culberson. Jeff Davis, 
Presidio, and Terrell, and all of Hudspeth County, except that part of the 
northwest corner of said county lying 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 McNary, such ridge being an extension of the 
northwest boundary line of sec. 11, block 65%. 
Lightly infested areas — Arizona.- — Counties of Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, 
Maricopa, Pinal, and Santa Cruz, and all of Pima County, 5 except that part 
lying west of the western boundary line of range 8 east. 
New Mexico. — Counties of Chaves, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lea, 
Luna, Otero, Roosevelt, Sierra, Socorro, and Valencia. 
Texas. — Counties of Andrews, Brooks, Cameron, Cochran, Crane, Dawson, 
Dimmit, Duval, Ector, El Paso, Frio, Gaines, Glasscock, Hidalgo, Hockley, 
Howard, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg. La Salle, Loving, Martin, 
Maverick, Midland, Nueces, Pecos, Reeves, Starr, Terry, Upton, Ward, Webb, 
? Part of the lightly infested area in Arizona is regulated on account of the Tburberia 
weevil under quarantine No. 61, and shipments therefrom must comply with the require- 
ments of that quarantine. 
