The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-26
STATE WAR ON MOSQUITOES.
NEW JERSEY ASKED TO SPEND
$1,000, 600 TO FIGHT THEN.
Thirty Varieties OF Mosquitoes In New
Jersey--some OF Them Hali an men
LonE-Why Does n 'Skeeter Bite"-frot.
smith. state Entomologist. Can't Say.

New Jersey Is ready to tackle the mos
quito as a State problem.
A mosduito destroying bill has been
passed by the lower house of the State
Legislature and is now before the senate.
II appropriates State aid TO the amount
of 81 600 a year for first and second class
cities and $500 year in all other munich
mn lilies haying marsh land, in which mos
quitoes breed
First md second class cities are TO bear
so per cent. and the other municipalities
go per cent. of the cost Of these battles
against MOSQUITOES within their borders.
The State will supply the balance, up 10
the limit Of 81 600 for each first ana second
cass cities and $500 each for the smaller
municipalities
II ali the MOSQUITO infected communities
apply for State aid this year, the total ex-
penditure may run anywhere from $4,000
to $500 900. and this will represent only about
one-fourth Of the whole amount to be eX-
pended. The balance will be borne by the
separate municipalities.
The mosquito bill appropriates $4,000
TO the agricultural experiment station at
New Brunswick- So. 600 to defray the cost OF
a prelimina ~ investigation and $4,000 for
CARRYING out the provisions for State aid.
Heretofore only spasmodic attempts have
been made by communities TO conquer
the mosquito.
The trouble has been that mosquitoes
we're not understood. state Entomologist
John b Smith who is a professor at Rut-
gers College, admits this in report which
he has lust submitted to the Legislature
The report covers an investigation extend
ing over two years.
when l began my investigation. he
says, very little was known of the mos
quitoes inhabting the State.
Now il is known that there are thirty
varieties OF New Jersey mosquitoes. Con-
trary to popular belief, only few OF these
species are obnoxious. There are mos
quitoes which never bite. having no relish
for human or animal blood. There are
others which cannot bite, not being equipped
with ancets.
The most common mosquito in New Jer-
sey and tho one which holds down property
values along shore is the euler soiiichdns
or white headed salt marsh variety. 1t
bites hard and often and as readily during
the day as at night and without preliminary
singing The only good thing that can be
said Of it is that it makes no special effort
to get indoors.
NO one VINO mas ho' me, oy'',' ~ ~
native heath, Gays Prof. Smith can nave
any idea Of what a swarm really means.
an, tolerabIv we'll seasoned myself and
-. .-,,,, .a,Io,,.., ond esbor,pe,
nave peeh WIN oo"eo'o's "''"
who claimed to be mosquito proof put we
were on one occasion simply driven out of
n woodland nj the edge Of marsh alon g
-, ,,;,a NJ, ,,y ,ba soIicijons
seven WIG pea" - VIZ -,
But not only IN thelr oreeuihE urea are
they so troublesome miles inland have
| hattled with them on cranberry boys
III s,,,d,,in,, tho nests Of that crop. and
WIZ ,,, 80, o.o,. o,-tn, ,yo,
| huNe oeel S'Hu " H'' ~.
| with perspirailon. smartlng WIN pltes on
every exposed part of the body and on
! sor,a coyered parts where the insects
~. tJ,od through tbe clot hing
| s'ruoh "'Vuu '.tOis,' t..I t-t >,
w men me VIM p,oN "a M q GiIo X, ~ t.
make flght ullllcuIt IuIlAk w GaS ~ IA
scots cra"l Up ule ies' VI ,t'c'. 'i. ,.i
probably uhtil they llhu q PM W 80 =,
Children WIN leRs eSposeu ~ S ,r;htS,,,i ~