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ber, posts, poles, and crossties ; hay, roughage of all kinds, straw, leaves, and 
leafmold; peas, beans, and peanuts in the shells, or the shells of any of these 
products ; seed cotton, cottonseed, baled cotton lint, and linters. 
All articles, designated in paragraphs (a) and (&) of Regulation 3 of Quar- 
antine No. 72 (sec. 301.72-3) for which certification requirements are not here- 
inabove waived, shall remain under the restrictions of the quarantine during 
the period covered by this document (sec. 301.72a, issued under sec. 301.72). 
Aveby S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
[Copies of foregoing adminifjtra.tive instructions were sent to all common carriers doing 
business in or through the quarantined area.] 
instktjctions to postmasters 
Post Office Department. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, August 11, 1939. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sib : 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. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO WOODGATE RUST QUARANTINE 
(NO. 65) 
WOODGATE RUST QUARANTINE REVOKED 
[Press notice] 
July 20, 1939. 
The Federal quarantine relating to a disease of pines known as the Woodgate 
rust, which since 1928 has prohibited the shipping of Scotch pines as well as 
other species of hard pines interstate from 10 counties in northern New York, 
was revoked, effective July 31, 1939, the Department announced today. 
When the quarantine was first placed, the damage to Scotch pines was con- 
sidered of secondary importance to the danger of infecting other species of hard 
pines with this disease. Observations of the past several years, however, have 
shown that the rust does not spread aggressively and the disease is not believed 
to constitute a sufficiently serious menace to warrant the continuation of the 
quarantine. The action of the Department in withdrawing the quarantine 
restrictions, it was further declared, is in full accord with recommendations of 
the New York State Department of Conservation as well as the Department of 
Agriculture and Markets of that State. 
NOTICE OF LIFTING OF WOODGATE RUST QUARANTINE 
[Effective on and after July 31, 1939] 
I, M. L. Wilson, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, 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), do hereby 
remove and revoke the quarantine placed by Notice of Quarantine No. 65 (sec. 
301.65) upon the State of New York on account of the Wcodgate rust, and 
do also revoke the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, i\s amended, such 
removal and revocation to take effect on July 31, 1939. 
