HQ BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept, 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, July 24, 1939. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir : Your attention is invited to the enclosed administrative instruc- 
tions issued by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States 
Department of Agriculture, in connection with Federal Quarantine No. 72 on 
account of the white-fringed beetle. 
Postmasters in the quarantined area will please be governed accordingly. 
See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
B. E. P. Q. 485 (third revision). 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— REMOVAL OF WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE CER- 
TIFICATION REQUIREMENTS UNTIL FEBRUARY 1, 1940, FOR SPECIFIED ARTICLES 
CONSIGNED FROM DESIGNATED PORTIONS OF THE REGULATED AREAS 
[Approved July 28, 1939 ; effective July 28, 1939] 
Circular B. E. P. Q. 485, as revised July 7, 1939, waived certification require- 
ments until February 1, 1940, for specified articles consigned from certain parts 
of the areas regulated under quarantine No. 72. The only change in the present 
revision is to exempt from certification until February 1, 1940, certain articles 
consigned from St. Bernard Parish, La. 
Under authorization provided in Notice of Quarantine No. 72 (sec. 301.72), all 
certification requirements are hereby waived until February 1, 1940, for the 
following articles enumerated in Regulation 3(a) and (6) (sec. 301.72-3), when 
free from soil, it having been determined that sanitary measures and natural 
conditions have so reduced the risk of contamination with the egg or adult 
stage of the white-fringed beetle as to render certification unnecessary during 
the period stated : 
1. When consigned from the regulated parts of the following counties: In 
Alabama, Mobile County : in Florida, Escambia County ; in Louisiana, East 
Baton Rouge Parish ; in Mississippi, Jackson County, certification requirements 
are waived for the following articles: Potatoes and sweetpotatoes; sweetpotato 
vines, draws, and cuttings ; cordwood, pulpwood, stumpwood, and logs ; used or 
unused lumber, timbers, posts, poles, crossties, and other building materials ; 
hay, roughage of all kinds, straw, leaves, and leaf mold : 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. 
2. When consigned from the regulated parts of the counties of Hinds and 
Pearl River in Mississippi, certification requirements are waived for the follow- 
ing articles : Potatoes and sweetpotatoes : sweetpotato vines, draws, and cut- 
tings; cordwood, pulpwood, stumpwood, and logs; used or unused lumber, tim- 
bers, posts, poles, crossties, 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; 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. 
3. When consigned from the parishes of St. Bernard and Orleans (including 
the city of New Orleans) and from the regulated parts of the parishes of 
Jefferson and Plaquemines in Louisiana, certification requirements are waived 
for the following articles : Potatoes and sweetpotatoes ; sweetpotato vines, draws, 
and cuttings; cordwood, pulpwood, stumpwood, and logs; unused lumber, tim- 
