1935] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 39 
Parcels containing samples of raw or unmanufactured ginned cotton, as 
well as of cotton-mill waste, cottonseed meal, or cottonseed cake arc ad- 
mitted importation provided they are addressed to the Department of 
Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, at Washington, 
D. C. ; at San Francisco, Calif.; or at Seattle, Wash. Parcels containing 
samples of cotton, cotton-mill waste, cottonseed meal, or cottonseed cake 
originating in Mexico, If delivered to border exchange offices, shall be ad- 
dressed to the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology 
and Plant Quarantine, as follows : West of El Paso, Tex., to Nogales, Ariz. ; 
west of Laredo, Tex., to El Paso, Tex.; west of Brownsville, Tex., to Laredo, 
Tex.; east of Brownsville, Tex., to Brownsville, Tex. The names and addresses 
of the ultimate consignees of such parcels are to be indicated in the lower 
left-hand corner of the wrappers of the parcels. Upon receipt of the parcels 
at the inspection offices of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
they will be examined, disinfected, and forwarded to the ultimate consignees. 
In this connection, it is pointed out that any parcel received from abroad 
containing articles of the nature mentioned, whether or not it is accompanied 
by one of the green and yellow shipping tags referred to above, or is addressed 
to the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran- 
tine, should be forwarded to the appropriate representative of the Department 
of Agriculture located in the cities named. 
It has been brought to the attention of this Department by the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture that there were recently received from the Dallas, Tex., 
post office certain packages originating in Greece containing seed cotton 
addressed for delivery at Sherman, Tex., which the quarantine inspectors 
found to be heavily infested with the pink bollworm, one of the world's 
worst cotton pests. The Department of Agriculture advises that the inter- 
ception of the packages mentioned is of particular importance in that the 
State of Texas, in cooperation with the Federal Government, at great expense, 
eradicated an incipient infestation of this destructive cotton insect during 
1921 and 1922 in the county to which the seed cotton was destined, and that 
the interception of the packages in question is therefore greatly appreciated. 
From time to time other instances are reported to the Department where 
packages containing products subject to the foregoing regulations are mis- 
treated upon their original receipt or distribution in this country. The 
foregoing example illustrates the importance of a strict compliance with 
said regulations and this further announcement is, therefore, made for the 
purpose of emphasizing the need for all employees to continue to exercise 
the utmost vigilance in the handling of mail articles received from abroad 
in order that the fullest cooperation may be assured the Department of 
Agriculture in the administration of the Plant Quarantine Act. 
Postmasters will cause due notice of the foregoing to be taken at their 
offices. 
Harllee Branch, 
Second Assistant Postmaster General. 
LILY BULBS FROM THE ORIENT (T. D. 47733) 
Inspection and Release by Plant Quarantine Inspectors at Vancouver, 
British Columbia, Canada, of Shipments of Lily Bulbs to be Imported 
into the United States Discontinued — T. D. 43579 Revoked and Superseded 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs. 
Washington, D. C, May 31, 19.1'. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
The Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture has advised that the existing arrangement for the 
inspection and release of lily bulbs at Vancouver, British Columbia, by plant 
quarantine inspectors of that Department will be discontinued, effective on 
and after the date of publication of this decision in the Weekly issue of Treasury 
Decisions. Such importations shall thereafter be handled in the following 
manner: 
