1929] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 123 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
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. 67, effective June 1, 1929, 
quarantined the States of Georgia and Alabama to prevent the spread of the 
phony peach disease and has ordered that no peach trees, peach roots, nectarine 
trees, nectarine roots, or any kinds or varieties of trees or shrubs grafted or 
budded on peach or nectarine roots shall be moved or allowed to be moved 
interstate from the said quarantined States in manner or method or under con- 
ditions other than those prescribed in the rules and regulations made there- 
under and amendments thereto. Copies of said quarantine, and the rules and 
regulations supplemental thereto, may be obtained from the Plant Quarantine 
and Control Administration, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C 
Arthur M. Hyde 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Published in the Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Ga., June 15, 1929, and in the Opelika 
News, Opelika, Ala., June 19, 1929.] 
Instructions to Postmasters 
postoffice departm en t. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington. May ,!',. 1929. 
Postmaster. 
My Dear Sir : There is inclosed for your information and guidance a copy of 
Quarantine Order No. 67 of the United States Department of Agriculture, on 
account of the phony peach disease, effieetive June 1. 1921). 
It will be noted that under Regulation 5, no peach trees, peach roots, nec- 
tarine trees, nectarine roots or any kinds or varieties of trees or shrubs grafted 
or budded on peach or nectarine roots, shall be moved or allowed to be moved 
interstate from the regulated areas to any point outside thereof unless a permit 
shall have been issued therefor by the United States Department of Agriculture. 
No restrictions are placed on the interstate movement of peach or nectarine 
fruit, fruit pits, cuttings, scions or other parts of peach or nectarine trees 
without roots. 
Under the provisions of paragraph 1. section 467, Postal Laws and Regula- 
tions, parcels containing any of the prohibited trees, roots or shrubs may not 
be accepted for mailing from any point in the area quarantined by the Order 
unless the articles are accompanied with the required certificate of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. 
Sincerely yours, 
R. S. Regar. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
[Above instructions sent to all postmasters in Georgia and in Lee County, Ala.] 
PINK-BOLLWORM QUARANTINE (NO. 52) 
PINK-BOLLWORM REGULATED AREA MODIFIED 
[Press notice] 
May 20, L929 
A portion of the northern half of Dawson County, Tex., will be released Maj 
25 from the areas regulated under the Federal pink-bollworm quarantine, ac- 
cording to an announcement by the Secretary of Agriculture. The amendment, 
effective May 25, removes restrictions on the interstate movement of cotton 
lint, cottonseed, and certain other products from the area so released. 
The boundary line of the regulated territory as qovi designated separates the 
ginning areas more Logically than the line previously adopted, according to the 
Department of Agriculture, and the action taken is iuUy Justified because of the 
fact that no infestation has ever been found in the portion ol Dawson County 
referred to. A similar regulation affecting Intrastate shipments was I 
by the State of Texas on March 12, 1J)L M .». 
