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3. In the construction of ditches, the company should 

 carefully avoid borrowing dirt for banks from the ground 

 immediately contiguous to the ditch bank, as this forms 

 low spots which will usually fill with seepage water. 



4. Where the drainage for any piece of land is not 

 sufficient to remove the seepage from a proper amount 

 of irrigation, the company should cut a drain to the 

 nearest natural drain, and maintain it in good condition. 



5. The company should make regulations with regard 

 to the use of irrigation water, and enforce them. 

 Appendix II contains a suggestion for such rules. 



6. The company should provide for a lecture by an 

 authority on malaria and mosquito control at the begin- 

 ning of the mosquito season in 191 2, say about the 

 first of March, the Company to make arrangements 

 and give thorough publicity to the same to assure a 

 large attendance from the people that will be affected. 



7. The Company should have printed and distrib- 

 ute to the persons who already own land on the proj- 

 ect, and who will buy land in the future, circulars con- 

 taining the necessary concise directions to prevent the 

 breeding of mosquitoes on their own premises, and to 

 prevent malarial infection. (See Appendix III.) 



8. Talks should be given to the school children in 

 the district on mosquitoes and malaria, as they have 

 been found to be a 'great assistance in this matter in 

 other communities doing the same work. 



9. The compan\ r should urge upon the Board of 

 Supervisors of Tehama County the passage of an anti- 



