Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1911-09-14
MAKE QUARANTINE
LESS SWEEPING
MANUFACTURERS WIN POINT
Restrictions Are So Change as to Al
feet Cotton From Infected
Couutiees Instead Of States.

Greenville, Sept. d. ue eou
ference held hers this afternoon
between the chronological com.
mittee of the board of trustees Oh
Clemson college, the executive
committee of the South Carollna
Cotton Manufa a,turers' asse Ga,
ton and go or more cotton mill
presidents, railway officials ana
COTTON brokers from North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Tennes'
see and Mississippi, in reference
to orders issued several days ago
nv the State ento rologlst for
bidding the importation atter
September 10 of any cotton lntc
this State from the States Oh
Texas, Arkansas, o k | q h o m a,
Mississippi and Louisiana, re-
suited in the Cotton Manufac-
turers' association winning Its
point. The chronological com
mittee defined certain counties
in the boil weevil infested States
from which cotton can not oe I'm
ported instead of placing quar-
antine on entire States.
The date after which no cotton
can be imported was changed
from September 10 to Oct 'oer l.
At the same time the ento,
mological committee LAID oown @
certain rules which the cotton
mill meu and railroad otflclals
promised to strictly observe.
The substance of reso u il o n S
adopted is as follows:
/. That no cotton seed, seed
cotton. cotton seed hulls or baled
or unbaled cotton, or any OF these
used for packing purposes shall
be received in South Carolina if
it comes from any boil weevil
kerritory.
3 That no transportation
Al deliver IN SSuth
Deny lof the above pro.
Iuacts which come from a country
in which the boil weevil is known
to exist. The non-existence OF
the boil weevil in any county
shall be determined in The latest
official reports of the bureau of
entomolc g of the United States
department of agriculture.
8. That local agents OF trans
portation companies shall be re-
ouired to notify the State ento-
luologist at Clemson OF the ar
rival of anv cotton products from
boil weevil territory in violation
of the law, and upon receipt of
such notice the State entomology
ist shall investigate the shipment
and if he finds it in violation of
the regulations of the board shall
huve the same removed from the
State at once.
4. In case of cotton lint or
hulls or cotton seed being used
for packing purposes and the
same GENE from boil Weevll
territory the goods shall be un-
packed in the presence OF the
State entomologist and the pack
ing destroyed.
Arrangements will be made
whereby the State entomologlst
will receive monthly from the
Uuited States department OF
agriculture certain maps show
ing just what counties of the cot
ton-producing States are infect
ed with the boil weevil. These
maps will be forwarded 10 Capt.
L. a. Smythe, president OF the
South Carolina Cotton Manu-
facturerS' association, who will
cause tie to be distributed
throughout the State. IN Sc
maps will be issued from June |
to Move morr /, inclusive, and by
consulting them buTcrS will soc
what counties have ben n4"d
as DOLL wcevil territory and viii
D ,rchaSe no cotton therefr0m.
In conversation with IN
Statn'S correspondent, President
". n. Riggs. OF Clemson cnji' g.
WHO attended the meeting liriS
afternoon, stated that he con
.;1or,l tho arrpnmpnt reach nG