The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-01
NEW JERSEYS MOSQUITOES.
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From the Cincinnati Tribune.
New Jersey Is bored BY her mosquito
nuisance. One would think that long
endurance would hav Injured her to
the incisions of this insect infection,
but the inference is and she
remains inimical to the annual injec-
ton Meantime the malaria destroy
ing myr.ads of insidious invention
multipiyingly increase. Indeed. 10 is
the judgment OF the most experienced
mosquito statistical experts thai the
'ss pattern will exceed all former
years in extent Of output and sharp
ness OF the penetration. All signs,
heretofore unfailing. point to the
s~oundness of this demonstration. A
wet winter. with the usual accompani-
ment OF fog and slush. damp cellars
and general mugginess, IL is declared
by mosquitologists, mean an abnormal
increase in the yield. All these condi-
tions have prevailed during the win
ter just closing. During some of the
mild DAYS OF February and the early
part OF the present month the spectacle
OF many MOSQUITOES flying about the
houses, and particularly in the cellars.
has been presented to more than one
Jerseyite. To be sure, these pests
were too weak to begin boring opera
s'c'es " ~ HItIc ldtt lndl tDey nave
come forth so early and in such num-
bers has filled the heart OF the jersey
man with dire f~orebOdings.
That the instances just related are
not Isolated ones has been proven am
ply by the exchange of experiences
among residents who. making haste to
narrate to their n%eighbors what they
had encountered. found IL to be the
same story with all. In ones and twos.
In hnzana nrI SO -,...- -
been seen flying about, probably ex-
ercising for the serious work to come
later.
All Jerseymen do not escape the
pretty general belief that MOSQUITOES
disappear after the first frosts in the
fall. and that the next seasons yield
Is developed from the larvae deposited
In sheltered hooks. in the fields and
other places. There are those who de-
clare that some mosquitoes taste the
rich blood OF the Jerseyman for sue
cessive seasons without number There
are numerous places in a house. they
say, where a mosquito can hide dur
ing the winter and be protected from
the old. The ceiling Of a cellar. par
ticularly II the rafters be uncovered.
Is a favorite place for a winters rest.
the warmth hat proceeds from the
furnace assuring a comfortable place
~ '''tS's ~ WIS bt ttufs NHdL tltl
live upon is a mystery. as M Jersey
man has yet had the temerity to de-
clare that he has been attacked I'm
midwinter.
The scheme proposed last year to
drain the vast district in the valley of
the Hackensack. which Is the main
breeding ground of the Jersey mosdui-
to. has been abandoned. and thus ends
another OF the countless projects adj
vanced as a cure for the Jersey pest.
IL was thought that by digging nu-
merous canals the swamp land would
be well drained and made valuable
Tor manufacturing purposes and at
the same time ~untenable for mosquitoes.
Apparently the legislature has not
shared the enthusiasm OF the state en-
gineers. as no appropriation has ever
been made for the preliminary work
OF surveys. The dead grass on the
swampy section is being burned, and
the spectacle OF long lines OF fire pre-
sented each night to those living on
either side of Newark bay Is extremely
pretty. IL is Anne that the burning
over of the MOSQUITO territory tends to
keep down the yield by destroying The
larvae. but the average Jerseyman Is
extremely skeptical and fears the mos
quito will ever be n resident of the
state.