1939] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 143 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C, November 15, 1939. 
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority 
conferred on him by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 
315), as amended, has promulgated Amendment No. 3 to the revised regula- 
tions supplemental to the pink bollworm quarantine (Quarantine No. 52), 
effective on and after November 20, 1939. The purpose of the amendment is 
to add to the regulated area the Texas counties of Concho, Tom Green, Irion, 
and those parts of Coke and Sterling Counties lying southwest of and includ- 
ing the right-of-way of Highway No. 87. Copies of the amendment may be 
obtained from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Published in the following newspapers : The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz., Novem- 
ber 28, 1939 ; the Journal, Albuquerque, N. Mex., November 27, 1939 ; the Chronicle, 
Houston, Tex., November 25, 1939.] 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, November 22, 1939. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir: Attention is invited to the inclosed copy of Amendment No. 
3 to the Revised Regulations Supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 52 of 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture on account of the pink bollworm of cotton, 
effective November 20, 1939. The amendment extends the regulated areas to 
include the Texas counties of Concho, Irion, Mitchell, Sterling, Tom Green, 
and a part of Coke County. All postmasters in the quarantined areas will 
please be governed accordingly. See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws 
and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO WHITE-FRINGED BEETLE 
QUARANTINE (NO. 72) 
B. B. P. Q. 503 
ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS— MODIFYING THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE WHITE- 
FRINGED BEETLE QUARANTINE BY AUTHORIZING TREATMENT BY METHYL 
BROMIDE SOLUTION OF BALLED NURSERY STOCK NOT LARGER THAN 6 INCHES 
IN THICKNESS 
November 21, 1939. 
It has been determined after investigation by the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine of the United States Department of Agriculture, that balled 
nursery stock can safely and successfully be treated with methyl bromide solu- 
tion for the control of larvae of the white-fringed beetle (Pantomorus leucoloma 
Boh. and P. peregrinus Buch.). 
Treatment Authorized 
Under the provisions of Regulation 5 (a) (Sec. 301.72-5) supplemental to 
Notice of Quarantine No. 72 (Sec. 301.72), the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology 
and Plant Quarantine hereby authorizes, as a prerequisite to certification, the 
following method of treatment for balled plants, when carried out under the 
supervision of an authorized inspector of the United States Department of 
Agriculture. 
