ALABAMA
Agricultural Experiment
Station
OF THE
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
AUBURN
CIRCULAR No. 16
Rules and Regulations
OF THE
ALABAMA
STATE BOARD OF 
HORTICULTURE
GOVERNING THE TRANSPORTATION OF
ARTICLES LIABLE TO CONTAIN 
THE
Mexican Cotton 
Boll Weevil
Revised and Complete
TO
October 1,1912
By
W. E. HINDS,
Entomologist, Alabama State Board of Horticulture
Post Publishing Co., Opelika, Ala.
ALABAMA
STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE
MEMBERS OF BOARD
R. F. KOLB, Chairman -----....--.------ Montgomery.
Commissioner Agriculture and Industries.
J. H. McCARY .- -- Birmingham.
President State Horticultural Seciety.
J. F. DUGGAR .. . . . . . . -.. . . . . . . . . . ... . .Auburn.
Director of Experiment Station.
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
P. F. WILLIAMS, State Horticulturist Auburn
In charge of Nursery Inspection matters.
W. E. HINDS, Entomologist Auburn.
In charge of boll weevil quarantine matters.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
GOVERNING THE IMPORTATION AND TRANSPORTATION
OF ARTICLES LIABLE TO CONTAIN THE
MEXICAN COTTON BOLL WEEVIL
In accordance with an act of the Legislature of the State of
Alabama entitled: An Act To Further Protect Horticulture, Fruit
Growing, and Truck Gardening, and to Exclude Crop Pests of all
Kinds in the State of Alabama, Approved March 5,1903, the fol-
lowing rules and regulations relative to the Mexican cotton boll wee-
vil have been adopted and will be in force after July 22, 1912,
whereupon all rules heretofore published will be revoked if in
conflict herewith.
Rule 16. The State Board of Horticulture and the State
Horticulturist hereby deputize the Entomologist to the Alabama
Experiment Station to act as Entomologist to the State Board o
Horticulture, and hereby charge him with the ordinary enforcement
of the rules and regulations relating to the Mexican cotton boll
weevil, together with the requirement and issuance of such affi-
davits and certificates as may be deemed necessary in determining
the safety and propriety, and in facilitating the proper and lawful
movement or transportation of shipments from or into the uninfest-
ed territory of Alabama, of seed cotton, cotton seed, cotton seed
hulls or other cotton products or of household goods or any other
article or material liable to be infested with, or to harbor the Mex-
ican cotton boll weevil, or which may be quarantined against by
any State on account of that insect.
Rule 17. That in order to prevent the introduction of the
Mexican boll weevil into uninfested territory in the State of Ala-
bama, from any region where the same is known to exist, a rigid
quarantine is hereby declared against all such infested territory; and
in order to restrict the spread and further introduction into or
within the State of Alabama of the said Mexican cotton boll
weevil, it is hereby ordered:
(a) That no cotton seed, seed cotton, hulls, seed cotton and
cotton seed sacks, cotton pickers' sacks (which have been used
within eight months), or corn in the shuck shall at any time be
brought into uninfested territory in the State of Alabama from in-
fested territory or from any point situated within 20 miles of the
area known to be infested by the boll weevil; provided that between
January 15th, and July 15th, of any year shipments, whether by
public or private conveyance, originating within or ginned within
a zone 20 miles in width immediately adjoining, but outside of
the area of weevil infestation, may be made to points not more
than 40 miles outside of the known line of infestation as last
officially determined and announced, and further provided that ex-
ceptions may be made as stated in paragraph (k).
(b) That between October 1st and June 30th inclusive,
shipments of Spanish moss, baled or unbaled, originating in infest-
ed territory shall be prohibited from entering or passing through
the uninfested parts of the State of Alabama.
(c) (Restriction on cotton lint). Revoked Dec. 13, 1911.
(d) That all transportation of household goods, whether by
public or private conveyance, from infested to uninfested areas shall
be prohibited unless accompanied by an affidavit, which with rail-
road or boat shipments shall be attached to the way-bill, stating
specifically that the shipment contains no cotton seed, seed
cotton, hulls, seed cotton and cotton seed sacks, cotton pickers'
sacks, corn in the shuck, or lcose Spanish moss, either as packing
or in any other way contrary to these regulations. In shipments
made during the months of July, August, and September, corn
shucks or Spanish moss may be used for packing. All such ship-
ments may, however, be subject to inspection at the discretion of
the Entomologist or other authorized deputy of the Board.
(e) Interstate shipments of quarantined articles passing
through uninfested territory in the State of Alabama; shall 
be made
in tightly-closed box cars, and the carriers shall exercise every reas-
onable precaution during transit and in making transfers to avoid
the liability of disseminating weevils thereby.
(f) No person except the Entomologist to the State Board 
of
Horticulture or his authorized deputy may lawfully have and 
keep
in his possession outside of the weevil infested territory any 
living
stage or stages (egg, larva, pupa or adult), or any cotton square 
or
boll containing such stage, of the Mexican cotton boll 
weevil.
No person except said Entomologist or his authorized deputy, 
may
give, sell, or transport such living stage or stages of the 
Mexican
cotton boll weevil from any point within the territory wherein the
boll weevil is known or supposed to exist to any point outside of
such territory except that specimens suspected of being or of con-
taining any stage or work of the Mexican cotton boll weevil may
be given, mailed or shipped in STRONG, TIGHTLY WRAP-
PED AND SEALED PACKAGES NOT SUBJECT TO
BREAKAGE, to the Entomologist, Auburn, Alabama, for his ex-
amination and identification.
(e) All railroads, steamboat and express companies or other
common carriers, and all private parties operating vehicles, boats,
etc., in the State of Alabama are especially enjoined to comply
with requirements of this order and of the laws of the State of
Alabama governing the same. In case of violation 
of these rules
and regulations, constituting a misdemeanor, the facts in the 
case
shall be reported to the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
ex-offico
Chairman of the Alabama State Board of Horticulture, and he
shall proceed to act in accordance with section 
6228, of the crimi-
nal Code of Alabama of 1907, which reads as follows:
"Any person who fails or refuses to comply 
with any
of the lawful requirements of the commissioner 
of agriculture
and industries, or of the state horticulturist, 
or the state board of
horticulture as provided by law, 
after having been warned to do
so, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and upon convic-
ticn, shall be fined not less than 
one hundred dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars."
(h) That the quarantine hereby declared 
may, from time to
time, be extended or so modified as to apply 
to all territory that
may hereafter become infested by the 
boll weevil or other unusual-
ly dangerous insect pests. Any other 
articles or materials whatso-
ever found by inspection to contain 
boll weevils shall be subject to
the quarantine regulations and may 
be condemned or subjected to
trecatment prescribed by direction of the 
Entomologist.
Rule 17, (a)-(h) adopted April 4, 1911.
(i) That these rules and regulations 
shall apply to the en-
tire area of any county in Alabama 
or other State as soon as the
bcll weevil is reported by the Entomologist 
of that State as having
been found at any point within said county. 
This regulation shall
not at any time nullify the provision 
for a 20 mile safety zone as
provided for in rule 17, paragraph 
(a). Parts of counties outside of
this 20 mile zone will be excepted from 
the application of rule 17,
paragraph (i), after the line of weevil infestation 
for the season shall
have been determined and 
publicly announced.
Adopted, Sept. 1, 1911.
(j) Restricted Articles:
1. Seed cotton.
2. Cotton seed.
3. Seed cotton sacks, cotton seed sacks and cotton 
pickers's sacks
any of which has been used within eight months for any 
of
purposes indicated.
4. Cotton seed hulls between August 1 and December 
31.
5. Spanish moss and corn in shuck between October 1 and 
June 30.
6: Living weevils or weevil stages or weevil work 
in possession of
any person outside of the infested territory except a qualified
entomologist.
7. Household goods containing any of the foregoing during the
period of quarantine applying to each.
Where no time limit is specified, the restriction is continuous.
Articles not restricted:
1. Baled cotton, flat or compressed.
2. Linters and loose cotton lint.
3. Cotton seed meal, cake and oil.
4. Corn shelled or in the ear with shuck removed, oats or any
other seed except cotton seed.
5. Cotton seed shown by affidavit to have been sacked continuously
for nine months or more.
6. Cotton seed for planting purposes after fumigation with carbon
disulphide by a competent entomologist.
7. Hay.
8. Empty freight cars.
Adopted December 13, 1911.
(k) Any oil mill in the State of Alabama located within
a distance of less than 100 miles outside of the weevil line 
as official-
ly determined at the end of any season may be allowed 
during the
succeeding season to draw cotton seed for crushing at said 
mill
from any territory, even including that within which 
the weevil is
known to occur; provided however, that such seed originating 
in
quarantined territory shall be held subject to rule 17 
paragraph (e)
as to transportation and may be moved by transportation agents
only when accompanied by official certificate permitting shipment,
signed by the Entomologist of the Alabama State Board of 
Horti-
culture.
Amended July 22, 1912.
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Address all communications relative to the boll weevil to the
Entomologist, Auburn, Alabama.
Address all communications relative to nursery inspection to
the State Horticulturist, Auburn, Alabama.
For full description of the Mexican boll 1eevil send to the
Experiment Station, Auburn, Ala., for bulletin 146.
The weevil area for 1911 is shown in Alabama Experiment
Station Press Bulletin 54.
The weevil advance in Alabama to October first, 1912, is de-
scribed in Alabama Press Bulletin No. 59.
The final quarantine line for 1912 will be shown in Alabama
Press Bulletin No. 60, which will be issued about December 1.
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