1933] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 271 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
Washington, D.C., December 11, 1933. 
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 by Notice of Quarantine No. 52 (revised), effective 
December 23, 1933, quarantined the States of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New 
M< xico. and Texas, to prevent the spread of the pink bollworm, and has ordered 
that (1) cotton, wild cotton, including all parts of either cotton or wild 
cotton plants, seed cotton, cotton lint, linters, and all other forms of unmanu- 
factured cotton fiber, gin waste, cottonseed, cottonseed hulls, cottonseed cake 
and meal; (2) bagging and other containers and wrappers of cotton and cotton 
products; (3) railway cars, boats, and other vehicles which have been used 
in conveying cotton or cotton products or which are fouled with such products; 
(4) hay and other farm products; and (5) farm household goods, farm equip- 
ment, and, if contaminated with cotton, any other articles, shall not be shipped, 
offered for shipment to a common carrier, received for transportation or trans- 
ported by a common carrier, or carried, transported, moved, or allowed to 
be moved interstate from the said quarantined States in manner or method 
or under conditions other than those prescribed in the rules and regulations 
supplemental to said revised quarantine or in amendments thereto. The re- 
vision brings parts of the State of Georgia under restriction and modifies the 
boundaries of the regulated areas in Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, and Texas. 
Copies of said revised quarantine and rules and regulations may be obtained 
from the Bureau of Plant Quarantine, Department of Agriculture, Wash- 
ington, D.C. 
R. G. Tugwell, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Published in the following newspapers : The Republican, Phoenix. Ariz.. Dec. 19, 
1933 ; the Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla.. Dec. 18. 1933 ; the Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., 
Dec. 18. 1933; the State Tribune, Albuquerque, N.Mex., Dec. 19, 1933; and the Star- 
Telegram, Fort Worth, Tex.. Dec. 19, 1933.] 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
Washington, D.C, December 26. 1933. 
Postmaster : 
My Dear Sir: Your attention is invited to the enclosed copy of the latest 
revision of Quarantine Order No. 52 of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture on account of the pink bollworm. 
The changes in the regulated areas, etc.. are indicated in the " Introductory 
note " and " Summary " on the first and second pages, and you will please be 
governed accordingly. See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regula- 
tions. 
Very truly yours, 
C. B. Eilenrerger. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO RICE QUARANTINE (NO. 55) 
REVISION OF QUARANTINE AND REGULATIONS 
introductory note 
It has been determined that properly packed rice straw and rice hulls, if sub- 
jected lo suitable steam or other approved treatment at the port of arrival, may 
