Verticillium Wilt of Cotton.

This report has been prepared ill response to numerous requests for information concerning Verticillium wilt of cotton which was unusually severe in the El Paso Valley in 1949.The followin g observations and generalizations from the literature may be helpful in lessening damage from the disease.Most of the sug gested control measures listed do not represent the results of research at the El Paso Valley Expe r iment St at ion, and the y should not be considered conclusive.This station has directed its research toward the development of cotton varieties resistant to the di seas e.