42 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [April-June 
GENFRAL OFFICES OF STATES COOPERATING 
Alabama: Chief, Division of Plant Industry, Montgomery. 
Florida: Assistant Plant Commissioner, State Plant Board, Gainesville. 
Louisiana: State Entomologist, Baton Rouge. 
Mississippi: Entomologist, State Plant Board, State College. 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C, May 8, 1942. 
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority con- 
ferred by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U. S. C. 
161), has promulgated a revision, effective on and after May 6, 1942, of the 
white-fringed beetle quarantine (Notice of Quarantine No. 72) and regulations 
supplemental thereto. The purposes of the revision are to extend the regulated 
areas to include additional infested sections in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and 
Mississippi; to release an area in the vicinity of Monroeville, Ala.; to add to the 
list of commodities restricted throughout the year lily bulbs, grass sod, peanut 
hay, and nursery stock including greenhouse-grown annuals and perennials; to 
lift restrictions on sweetpotatoes, peas, and beans; and to require cleaning of 
freight cars and other vehicles. 
Copies of the quarantine as revised may be obtained from the Bureau of Ento- 
mology and Plant Quarantine, Department of Agriculture, Washington. 
Claude R. Wickard, 
Secretary. 
[The above notice was published in the following newspapers: The Birmingham News, Birmingham, 
Ala., May 21, 1942; the Times Picayune, New Orleans, La., May 21, 1942; the News, Jackson, Miss., May 
22, i942; the Florida Times Union, Jacksonville, Fla., May 21, 1942.] 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, June 80, 1942. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir: Attention is invited to the inclosed revision of Quarantine Order 
No. 72 of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, on account of the white-fringed beetle, modifying slightly the 
area under quarantine and making some changes in the list of restricted articles 
and other revisions as indicated. Postmasters in the quarantined areas will please 
be governed accordingly. See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regu- 
lations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
B. E. P. Q. 503, Fourth Revision, Effective May 6, 1942 
Supplement No. 1 
TITLE 7— AGRICULTURE 
Chapter III — Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
Part 301 — Domestic Quarantine Notices 
white-fringed beetle administrative instructions modified; 
treatment authorized 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
Further investigational work has shown that it is possible to kill all stages of the 
white-fringed beetle by methyl bromide fumigation under partial vacuum applied 
at a modified dosage or at a modified temperature under the dosage heretofore 
