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])lans and proposals, found that tlie marsh conld be ren- 

 dered suitable for occupation at a contract cost not ex- 

 ceeding $300 per acre, an amount which, when compared 

 with the selling price of city lots in Newark, is very small. 

 Drainage not for city purposes, however, Mr. Yermeule 

 shows, can be done for about $93 per acre. This Avould 

 put the land in condition for agriculture or grazing. He 

 shows that in Nova Scotia, drained marshlands sell for 

 $150 to $200 an acre for agricultural purposes only, and 

 that the diked meadows in Salem and Curaljerland Coun- 

 ties in New Jersey have always been worth several times 

 as much as imjiroved upland. "As much as fifty-five 

 bushels of wheat per acre, and heavy crops of hay are 

 raised on them. A moderate amount of drained tide- 

 marsh attached to a farm in that vicinitj^ enhances the 

 value of the farm." He urges that a private corporation, 

 if it can secure a sufficiently large area to begin opera- 

 tions, and can drain it and \}\\i a small portion under cul- 

 tivation as a demonstration, could promptly lease the 

 rest for enough money to give a fair return on the invest- 

 ment, and the appreciation in the value of the land in 

 the course of a few years, since it is so near N"w York, 

 would undoubtedly make the venture profitable. 



An editorial in the New Jersey Advertise?' of Fel)rnary 

 9, 1901, advocates Avork under the Board of Trade against 

 mos(iuito-brceding places. The reasons are summed up 

 well in the following words : 



" There is a sanitary reason for their extirpation. They 

 inJTire property for sale, so tli(M'e is a good economic rea- 

 son. They aftlict the healthy, and tt)rment the sick, and 



