LIBRARY 
 STATE PLANT BOARD 
 
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE 
 Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 B. E. P. Q.~ U50 May 27, I937 
 
 ADMINISTRATIVE INSTRUCTIONS; APPROVAL OE ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT FOR 
 THE INTERSTATE MOVEMENT OF BALED COTTON LINTERS GINNED FROM COTTONSEED 
 PRODUCED IN AREAS LIGHTLY INFESTED WITH THE PINK 30LL7/0RM 
 
 (Issued under Regulation 9> Quarantine No. ^2) 
 
 Pursuant to authority vested in the Bureau of Entomology and 
 Plant Quarantine under Regulation 9 of the rules and regulations sup- 
 plemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 5 2 (revised), which provides 
 that baled linters produced in a lightly infested area to be shipped 
 interstate to nonregulated territory must be either fumigated under 
 vacuum, or compressed, or roller treated; or given such other treat- 
 ment as may later be approved by the said Bureau, the Bureau hereby 
 approves the following alternative treatment: 
 
 Permits may be issued for the interstate movement of baled 
 cotton linters ginned from cottonseed grown in a regulated area 
 lightly infested with the pink bollworm when such linters are pro- 
 duced from seed which has been heated to a temperature of at least 
 155"" Fahrenheit in approved apparatus under the supervision of an 
 inspector and subsequently handled so as to prevent contamination. 
 Such treatment shall be given separate and apart from ginning opera- 
 tions and removed from other contaminated cotton products. 
 
 LEE A. STRONG, 
 
 Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine . 
 
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