The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-25
COSTLY WAR ON ,skEEr.
Work in Jersey Beneficial, But Must
Proceed, Experts Say.

Work in Jersey Beneficial, But Must
Proceed, Experts Say.
Reports to the third annual meeting
of the New Jersey Mosquito Exter-
mination Association at the Hotel
Traymore, Atlantic City, show that
$1,000 of the 300, 900 acres of salt
marsh along the coast have been drain
ed at a cost of 1925 900, and that APP
proximately $4,000 more will be re-
quired to rid the State entirely of the
pest. Nine counties were represented
by about so delegates, and addresses
we're made by experts who have ac-
complished great results throughout
the State and nation.
All were apparently agreed that the
Dutch laid the basis for solving the
mosquito problem when that thrifty.
nation conserved its lowlands by the
erection of bikes. These sea barriers.
various speakers asserted, had proven:
the only effective remedy for wipingl
out the pests, and dixie building was
advocated as the chief feature of the
work to be carried on from this time
forward.
James E. Brooks, of Glen Ridge, in
a long paper, typiied the adult moss
quito as an aeroplane against which
mankind had as yet been unable to
rear d~efenses. Everybody knows"
he said, that only the female of the
species stings, and that she flies with
an aeroplane and carries poison and
disease in her train. She can migrate,
40 miles from her breeding place, and
the fight against her is hopeless. It
Is the infant mosquito with which we
must deal in this problem of extermin-
alton"
William E. Delaney, of Jersey City,
who is directing the huge task of
draining 10000 acres of salt marsh
lands, told of the wonderful Results aes
complished from a centrifugal pump
in the drainage of diked areas. One.
pump, he said, electrically operated
and costing less than $1,000 to INSTALL.
was sufficient for draining 1000 acres.
Problems in Atlantic county, which
leads the State in salt marsh lands
with a total acreage of 49,9S0, were
discussed by Harold /. Eaton, in
charge of the work there for the last
three years. Twelve thousand acres.
have thus far been drained, he said,
at a cost of $4S, 900, and between two
and three years will be required to
finish the remaining area at a total
cost of "a an acre. From Russell w.
Giles, of Elizabeth, it was learned that
the cost of mosquito determination
had kept pace with the cost of living.
Oil purchased for seven cents per gal
Ion last year, he said, is now quoted
at nine cents.
Two years was the term tentatively
decided upon at the last meeting to
complete the. work of determination,
but DR.. Thomas J. Hea0lee, State En-
tomologist, declared that this period
was altogether too short to do effec-
tive work. eff our plans were made
to expend 5000, 900 a year throughout
the State" he said. waste would be
sure to occur. 1t would be impossible
to get a working organization in shape
for the expenditure of that large
amount in the time designated. 1
think it would be advisable to spend
no more than $3.50, 900 the first year
and $780, 900 the second year"
DR.. l.. o. Howard, of the Smith
sonian Institution, Washington, D.. c.,
was among the speakers. Addresses
were also made by DR.. Ralph H. Hunt,
of East Orange, president of the asso-
citation, and DR.. James G. Lipman,
director of the State Experiment Sta.
ton.