Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1917-08-30
SEVERE ACTION Is TAKEN nv
COMMISSION TO KEEP PEST
FROM STATE.
CANNOT TRANSPORT HulLs
Seed is Also Put on List for Entire
Year and Other Articles Through
Limited Period.

Columbia-General activity in move
ment OF cotton seed and hulls has cans-
ed the South Carolina State Crop Pest
Commission to submit regulations
governing the transportation of mate.
rials from boil weevil territory and
from the safety and quarantine zones
into the State of South Carolina Par
ticular attention is directed by the
commission to the fact that the ship
ment into South Carolina from weevil
territory OF cotton seed and seed cot
ton is strictly prohibited throughout
the year. The shipment of hulls Is
prohibited from August l to December
81. This does not include delinted
hulls which when properly treated may
be shipped under special permit.
Aside from the restriction regard
ing cotton seed, seed cotton and cot
ton seed hulls the following four re-
strictions are made for articles origi-
mating in bool weevil territory. Where
no time limit is specified the articels
are prohibited
l. Seed cotton sacks, cotton seed
sacks and cotton pickers' sacks any
of which have been used within eight
months for any of the purposes indi-
Gated are prohibited.
! 2. Spanish moss and corn in shucks
are prohibited between August l and
June 80
! 3. Living weevil or weevil stages or
weevil work in possession of any per-
sons outside of the infested territory.
except a qualified entomoligist are
prohibited.
4. Household goods containing any
OF the foregoing are prohibited during
the period Of quarantine applying to
each.
In order to remove all doubt upon
a number Of points it is particularly
stated that there is no restriction upon
any OF the following list of six items
at any season: Baled cotton, fiat or
compressed cotton seed meal, cake
and oil; linters and loose cotton lint;
corn shelled or in the ear, with
| shuck removed; oats or any. other
seed except cotton seed, hay, empty
, freight cars.
Cotton seed for planting, originating
outside of boil weevN infested terri
tory, coming from other states, pro-
vinces or foreign countries, and con-
signed to points within this state, or
cotton seed for planting originating
In this state and transported or sold
within South Carolina, shall have at
tached to every consignment a permit
issued only after an affidavit has been
made by shipper and filed with the
State Crop Pest Commission stating
that in case of staple cotton, less than
per cent and In case Of short staple
cotton less than per cent of the bolls
In the field OF cotton from which the
seed were taken shall show evidence
OF the presence of anthraconse. Affi-
| davit blanks are furnished upon re-
quest. Permit tags are secured from
the South Carolina State Crop Pest
Commission, Clemson College, at cost
A. III. Conradi, state entomologist,
says that in operating the quarantine
service three lines are maintained
The first is the actual weevil line
which at present is from Savannah to
Augusta and formed by the Savannah
River. The second line is the safety
line which is 20 miles wide in ad-
vance OF the weevil line. The belt
bounded by these line sis known as
the safety zone and is to compensate
for the errors that occur in determin-
ing the actual weevil line. Thirty miles
wide in advance of the safety zone
is the quarantine zone. Prohibited
or restricted articles may be shipped
from this zone into free territory un-
/. der evidence that such shipments are
safe. The object OF this zone is to
protect free territory against sudden
advances OF the weevil during late
summer and fall winds.