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tain cotton products, and rules for growing and harvesting cotton in 
condemned fields. 
The pink bollworm law further provides that if the commissioner 
of agriculture deems it necessary to the protection of the cotton indus¬ 
try of Texas that the growing of cotton in any quarantine district or 
part thereof be prohibited, he shall certify such fact to the governor, 
who thereupon declares the growing of cotton in such area a public 
menace and proclaims it unlawful to grow cotton in such district for 
the number of years specified in the recommendation of the Pink Boll¬ 
worm Commission. It makes it necessary for the commissioner to 
inspect such area after each crop season and have additional com¬ 
mission hearings for the purpose of continuing a non-cotton zone or 
changing the same to a regulated zone. 
A section of the act provides for the proclaiming by the governor 
of a regulated zone ill which it is permissible to grow cotton under 
rules and regulations by the commissioner of agriculture, embracing 
the planting of cotton seed from non-infested territory, beginning 
within the zone, marketing, and such other rules as may be deemed 
essential. The regulations also include the destruction of cotton 
fields which may be found infested in regulated zones, and provisions 
are made for compensation to the grower for such cotton destroyed. 
Compensation is not allowed, however, to any person or persons 
violating the proclamations, rules and regulations. Steps under this 
act were taken early in the spring of 1919, when it was recommended 
by the Pink Bollworm Commission, after holding a public hearing at 
Houston on April 18, 1919, that the original non-cotton zone 2 and 3 
should be changed to a regulated zone. This was done by proclama¬ 
tion of the governor and the work of growing cotton has been 
supervised by state and federal officials. Pink bollworms were 
again found in this territory in the fall of 1919, and the cotton 
is now being destroyed after having been appraised by proper 
committees. 
The act provides that the commissioner of agriculture and his author¬ 
ized agents shall have the power to enter into any field or fields of 
cotton or upon any premises in which it may be necessary to enforce 
the provisions of the act. It is also provided that the commissioner of 
agriculture of Texas shall cooperate with the secretary of agriculture 
of the United States in any measures authorized and to be undertaken 
in preventing the introduction of the pink bollworm into the United 
States through the state of Texas. It has been fortunate for Texas 
that this clause has been inserted in the law, because of the fact that 
the federal government came to our rescue with men and with funds 
when under the circumstances the state itself could not have con- 
