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 UNITED  STATES  DEPARTI-^NT  OF  AGRICULTURE 
 Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine 
 
 Washington,  D.   C.  LIBRARY 
 
 B.E.P.Q.  485— Revised  STATE  PLANT  BOARD 
 
 Sec,  301.72a  Administrative  Instructions  -  Removal  of 
 ^^^  white-fringed  beetle  certification  requirements 
 
 until  July  1,  1939,  for  specified  articles  consigned 
 from  designated  portions  of  the  regulated  areas 
 
 •  (Approved  May  6,  1939;  effective  May  8,  1939) 
 
 Circular  3.E.P.Q.  4-85,  issued  effective  January  15,  1939,  waived 
 certification  requirements  until  July  1,  1939,-for  specified  articles 
 consigned  from  certain  parts  of  the  areas  regulated  under  quarantine  No. 
 72.  The  present  revision  adds  additional  areas  in  Louisiana  from  which 
 certification  of  the  same  articles  is  waived  from  May  8  until  July  I, 
 1939. 
 
 Under  authorization  provided  in  Notice  of  Quarantine  No.  72  (Sec. 
 301.72),  all  certification  requirements  are  hereby  waived  during  the  regu- 
 lated periods  from  May  8,  to  June  30,  1939,  inclusive,  of  the  following 
 articles  enumerated  in  Regulation  3  (a)  and  {b) ,  (Sec.  301.72-3)  v;hen 
 free  from  soil  and  when  consigned  from  any  of  the  regulated  areas  in 
 
 Alabama:  Mobile  County; 
 
 Florida:  Escambia  County; 
 
 Louisiana:  Parishes  of  East  Baton  Rouge, 
 
 Jefferson,  Orleans  (including  the  city 
 of  New  Orleans)  and  Plaquemines; 
 
 Mississippi :  Counties  of  Hinds,  Jackson,  and 
 Pearl  River; 
 
 it  having  been  determined  that  sanitary  measures  and  natural  conditions 
 have  sufficiently  reduced  the  risk  of  egg  or  adult  contamination  as  to 
 render  certification  unnecessary  during  the  period  indicated: 
 
 Potatoes  and  sweetpotatoes. 
 
 Sweetpotato  vines,  draws,  and' cuttings. 
 
 Cordwood,  pulpwood,  stumpwood , ' and  lo£c. 
 
 Used  or  unused  lumber,  timbers,  posts,  poles,  crossties, 
 
 and  other  building  materials. 
 Hay,  roughage  of  ail  kinds,  straw,  *  leaves ,  and  leafmold. 
 Peas,  beans,  and  peanuts  in  shells,  or  the  shells  of  any 
 
 of  these  products. 
 Seed  cotton,  cottonseed,  baled  cotton  lint;  and  lirters. 
 Used  implements  and  machinery,  scrap  metal,  junk,  and 
 
 utensils  or  containers  coming  in  contact  with  the "ground. 
 Brick,  tiling,  stone,  and  concrete  slabs  and  Mocks. 
 Nursery  stock  and  other  plants,  which  are  free  from  soil. 
 
2  - 
 
 The  restrictions  on  the  interstate  movement  from  any  of  the  regu- 
 lated areas,  of  the  following  articles  designated  in  paragraph  (a_)(l)  of 
 Regulation  3  of  Quarantine  No.  72  (Gee.  301.72-3),  es  carriers  of  larvae 
 remain  in  effect  throughout  the  year: 
 
 Soil,  earth,  sand,  clay,  peat,  compost,  and  manure  whether  morod 
 independent  of,  or  in  connection  with  or  attached  to  nursery 
 stock,  plants,  products,  articles,  or  things. 
 
 (Sec.  301.72}   [B.E.P.Q.— 485,  Rev.  May  6,  193?] 
 
 LEE  A.  STRONG, 
 Chief,  Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine.