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About 75 delegates were in attendance at the meeting. Practically all of the salt 

 marsh in Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Union and Monmouth counties has been drained. 

 Considerable drainage remains to be done in Middlesex, Ocean, Atlantic and Cape May. 

 Burlington, Camden, Salem and Cumberland counties. 



Dr. J. G. Lipman, Director of the Experiment Station, urged the organization of 

 mosquito extermination commissions in these and other counties not active in 

 mosquito control. 



At the present rate of progress, Dr. Thomas J. Headlee, secretary of the association 

 declares it will require 15 years to complete the drainage of all the salt marshes. By 

 raising sufficient funds to undertake the work on a large scale, however, it is esti- 

 mated that the work can be completed in three years. It is believed that a state ap- 

 propriation of $250,000 a year for 3 years, or a total of $750,000 would be sufficient to 

 finish the job. This may seem like a large amount of money but is is believed that it 

 would be one of the best investments the state could make. Dr. Headlee estimates 

 that an increase in the valuation of taxable properties of $500,000,000 within a period of 

 30 years would follow the eradication of the mosquito. 



The officers of the association elected for the ensuing year are: President, Charles 

 Lee Myers, Jersey City; Vice-President, Wilfred A. Manchee, Newark; Second Vice- 

 President, Joseph Camp Pierces; Secretary, Thomas J. Headlee, New Brunswick; 

 Assistant Secretary, Wilber Walden, New Brunswick, and Treasurer, Lewis W. Jackson, 

 Jersey City; Executive Committee, Robert F. Engle, Beach Haven; Walter R. Hudson, 

 Paterson; Andrew J. Rider, Hammonton; Ralph Hunt, East Orange; Reid Howell, 

 Rutherford; W. H. Randolph, Rahway, and William Edgar Darnall, Atlantic City. 



Entomologists of Northeastern United States and Canada. 



The summer meeting was held at Boston on July 20th and 21st. The first day 

 was given over to : 



(1) The inspection of the large cyanide fumigation plant of the Vacuum Company of 

 Somerville, Mass., in the course of which the process of fumigating cq,tton was 

 illustrated ; 



(2) The examination of the results of the work and of the control of the satin moth ; 



(3) Examination of the work of the European com borer on sweet corn primarily; 



(4) Visit to the gipsy moth parasite laboratory where the process of rearing 

 natural enemies could be seen and many of the operations observed. 



The evening was spent at Bass Point, Massachusetts and after dinner a regular 

 program was taken up. 



Before the regular program Chairman Britton introduced the Assistant Secretary 

 of Agriculture, Dr. E. D. Ball, who had recently been made Budget Officer of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. He asked Dr. Ball to give to the members 

 present such a message as he thought fitting. Dr. Ball said among other things, 

 "That the U. S. Department of Agriculture proposes that its scientific men shall be 

 encouraged to take leave of absence for graduate courses of such a character as will be 



