This book contains the rules and regulations constituting Parts 53 to
209 of Title 7, revised as of January 1, 1966. It replaces the volume en-
titled “Title 7—Agriculture, Parts 53 to 209, Revised as of January 1,
1959," and becomes an integral part of the Code of Federal Regulations.
The text in this revision is derived from the latest text of the rules and
regulations, general and permanent in nature, duly promulgated in the
Federal Register on or before December 31, 1965. Source materials
from which the text is derived are cited with the text and should be con-
sulted to determine the effective date of any given provision. All dates
appearing in the source citations are dates of publication in the Federal
Register and should not be construed as effective dates.
Current regulatory material appearing in the daily issues of the Federal
Register follows the numbering system used herein and serves as a daily
supplement hereto. This book contains the following finding aids: a list
of current CFR volumes; a list of superseded CFR volumes; a table of CFR
titles and chapters; an alphabetical list of CFR subtitles and chapters; a
redesignation table; and a list of sections affected which furnishes Federal
Register citations to all changes in this book beginning January 1, 1964,
including changes which are no longer in effect.
A compilation of the list of sections affected for the entire Code of Fed-
eral Regulations from January 1, 1949, through December 31, 1963, is pub-
lished in a separate volume entitled "List of Sections Affected, 1949–1963.”
A General Explanation of the Code of Federal Regulations appears in
the volume containing Titles 1-3 and in the General Index volume.
This volume is published pursuant to Part 30 of the regulations of the
Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, as revised December 7,
1965 (30 F.R. 15131; 1 CFR Part 30), under the authority contained in
section 11 of the Federal Register Act (67 Stat. 388, as amended; 44 U.S.C.
311). The contents of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal
Regulations are by law prima facie evidence of the text of the original docu-
ments and are required to be judicially noticed (49 Stat. 502, 67 Stat. 388;
44 U.S.C. 307, 311). The approved citation of the Code is "CFR". Thus
the citation "7 CFR 53.1" refers to section 53.1 of this Title.