UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 828 
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry 
WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
May 10, 1920 
BACTERIAL WILT OF CUCURBITS 
By 
FREDERICK V« RAND, Assistant Pathologist, and ELLA 
M. A. ENLOWS, formerly Assistant Pathologist 
Laboratory of Plant Pathology 
CONTENTS 
Foreword 
Summer Transmission of Wilt . . ♦ 
Winter Transmission of Wilt . . . 
Relation of the Wilt Bacteria to Cucum- 
ber Beetles 21 
Page 
1 
2 
16 
Page 
Virulence Tests 25 
Some Host Relations 31 
Distribution of Bacterial Wilt .... 34 
Control 36 
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WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1920 
