Show i control disease of cucumbers Cue umberS eliminate agencies by which destructive ailment Is wintered mr apar ed by dho th un united cited states depart mot binl t t of tile must ellec tIve meadia of co toil ii trolling g the mosaic disease disc use of of curbin bers cording according ac to the united states department of agriculture consists it in of tile the agencies by destructive la is car tied dver over the alio winter I 1 the fhe cause ot of the lie disease Is unknown uni but diseased d plants bulit ain a forill of f hi infection which may ins lq bratis witted to healthy plants by such in ill folet 3 us thu aphis and tilt Etri striped ped beetle tilt disease tahi iise does I 1 nut lot moo in III the soll and Is ciul ill carried in tile seed of f allm L I 1 C 1 t I 1 t t d boox te ll 11 aitu but Is ki I 1 I 1 I 1 lo 10 0 1 alj u anu i i year to mettr tit 1 certain wild plants i lauts of va li licit teli occur in it idima 0 of r the it her growing sections hec llona wild plants carry DI disease the known gnoun wild blants ahiel alil i ca cany r IV I V the disease are the wild cuell ill ea vol two lo 10 of wild ald ground cherry cli erry and nil d cat matlill lill tin aiwase li Is curried carried over winter vlist e r tain ji tile roots of if chese wallis xcell I 1 ali I 1 tile caso oi of tits wild cucu cucumber which car cai rles the infection in ili the aeed iii tiding on oil these infected wild ald plants anti and oil the erg tit in the held field spread the conle di dlease stasa in u num ber of fields tile aver Illo sale infection lind had been 10 40 per cent eradication of tile wild dost cants in ili and near the fields reduced it to 3 per cont cc tit before planting tile field itself and all land fund A 75 yards should be carefully inspected und ond all wild host plants whether healthy or diseased should bo be pulled out if the field can be surrounded by other cultivated crops the work or of eradication will ila ho simplified and insects are likely to be less lesi prevalent plants arc dwarfed mosaic cucumber khints are dwarfed the younger I 1 leaves en v es ore are mottled led with green und and yellow and the fruits aru are mottled and the darker areas forming varty pro sections on the surface sur fice when such plants appear early in ili tile sason iason they alii should bo be removed to prevent further fuit lier spread of the infection by insects it is I 1 also a to use insecticides to reduce the number niber of it insects where several fields ure are nd ad jacent to one another jt it 1 essential that till nil growers operate cooperate co in ing the alic wild host lhost plants about their lads |