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ship of Mr. W. ('. Kerr, of tlit^ tirm of Westin^lioiise, 

 Church, Kerr A; Co., New York, to whioli we have several 

 times referred, coiisideral)le drainage of fresh-water 

 swamps above the seacoast bhiti's was carried on with 

 great success and at a minimum of expense. This work, 

 together with the use of kerosene upon larger pools, re- 

 sulted in complete relief from the attacks of the fresh- 

 water mos(putoes, which during tlu; early summer had 

 always been numerous and ferocious, l)ut down the blurts 

 below the Club there was a large area of s;dt-)iiarsh, and 

 in the higher i)ortions of this marsh-land the brackish 

 water-mosquito of the Atlantic coast {Ciilex sollicitans) 

 breeds abundantly and puts in its appearance up to the 

 end of July in numbers. An attempt by members of the 

 club was maele to buy this land in order to dike and drain 

 it, with the idea that it could subsequently be let to truck 

 growers, access to New York markets being easy and 

 profits for truck farming in that vicinity being great. In 

 the attempt, however, they found a singular obstinacy on 

 the part of the owners of this worthless land, and the 

 attempt was, at least temporarily, abandoned. 



A successful eifort of this kind, however, has been re- 

 corded by the writer in a previous publication. It comes 

 from one of the editors of the Scientific Aiiicriaw, who 

 writes as follows : 



In the town of Stratford, Conn., where I have resided for the 

 past forty-five years, we have been greatly plagued by swarms of 

 iii()S(niitoes, so great, in fact, that the "Stratford mosquito" be- 

 came a well-known eharaeteri.stie of Stratft)rd. We have in the 

 southern part of our town, bordering on the .sound, several acres 



