Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-22
QUARANTINE ON
PINK BOIL WORM
BEGUN BY STATE

The Georgia state board of ento-
mology, in order to prevent the in
festation of Georgia cotton fields by
the pink boil worm, has promulgated
stringent quarantine restrictions on
the importation of cotton and cotton
seed from certain districts of Texas
and, Louisiana. The announcement
of the quarantine was made Satur-
day by State Entomologist A. Z.
Lewis, on his erturn from a meeting
of the board held in Thomasvil1e.
The pink boil worm is character
lied as the worst enemy Of the cot
ton farmer, even more to be dreaded
than the boil weevil. The latter can
be controlled to certain extent, but
no scientific means of controlling
the pink boil worm has yet been dis
covered. The only method is to pro-
hibit cotton production within wide
radius of any spot found to be in
tested. The boil worm is an immi-
grant from Mexico, like the boil Wee
vii. 1t is prevalent in certain dis
tricts in Texas and Louisiana and
is working it's way eastward.
Alabama and Mississippi have in
stituted strict guarantees against
cotton shipments from Texas and
Mississippi and the Georgia regula-
tions follow along the lines of these
two states. No shipments of cotton
or it's by-products except cottonseed
oil, are permitted to enter Georgia
without a permit from the board OF
entomology, while shipments from
certain territories are absolutely pro-
hibited.
The regulations of the Georgia
board institute quarantine against
shipments from:
IN the state of Texas the coun-
ties of Jefferson, Chambers, Calves.
ton, Brazoria. Harris, Liberty, Fort
eastern Texas. Also in west Texas
the counties of Preside. Brewster
Val Verde, Kinney and Maverick and
a zone thirty miles wide around these
counties, and a zone with radius OF
ten miles around Hearn, Texas.
parishes of Cameron, Jefferson Davis
and Calcasieu and zone thirty
miles wide around these parishes
also zone with radius of ten miles
surrounding the oil mills located al
shrevep9rt Alex a1,dida and Monroe rntns
in the state of Louisiana within thir-
| ty miles Of an area known to have
been infested by the pink boil worm
within the past two years.
1.-THE articles against which the
quarantine specifically applies are
as follows: cotton, cotton seed, seet
cotton cotton seed hulls, cotton lint
and linters, cotton waste, cotton
sweepings, cotton samples, cot:
! ton mill waste, damaged anC
redried cotton, cake and meal but
not cotton seed oil; also household
goods containing any prohibited ma
| terials either as packing or other
wise, cotton bagging, sacks and 9th
er containers for cotton, ginning ant
milling machinery which has beer
used in the infested or restricted
areas within thirty months. also bal
ed hay and corn in the shuck.
shipments of these articles vii
| be permitted to enter Georgia on spe.
cial permit issued by the ,, Georsis
The board after going over the
work now being conducted and the
I demands for work on pecan insects
peach diseases, tobacco insects anG
| for conducting the eradication of the
MOSAIC disease Of sugar cane, has de-
cided to ask the legislature for ar
increase of $4,000 in the appropria.
tion now made for the Georgia state
board of entomology. The present
anprn0riati0n is $50 600