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breeder created. That man was engineering for mosquitoes. 

 A low place near by the above was shut off and no outlet left 

 under the road. Water always had stood here, probably for 

 over 200 years until recently, and mosquitoes always bred there 

 abundantly — results of the old methods. 



There is an adapted sense in which the term mosquito en- 

 gineering can be used, and that is the engineering of conditions 

 so that others, possibly all, will aid in the betterment — the en- 

 listment of co-operation — the proving to the people by words 

 and acts that extermination is possible and is advantageous 

 every way. In that way as much can be done towards the suc- 

 cess of the movement as can be done by the outlay of hun- 

 dreds of dollars in physical work. 



To a degree, then, we may all be mosquito engineers, pre- 

 venting breeding places, destroying those that do exist, the en- 

 listing of the interest of every one. And after a regular 

 course in the work we will be entitled to put M.E. after our 

 names, as a correspondent facetiously did to the speaker, and 

 we can go forth to aid in bettering the conditions of life. 



