414 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



the Inside Thoroughfare south of the ridge and into Httle natural 

 creeks north of that point. 



Ventnor adjoins Atlantic City to the southwest and is much 

 smaller in area; but it breeds more marsh mosquitoes than the 

 entire area within the limits of the larger city. Near the eastern 

 line there is a small but very bad area on the south side of the 

 Inside Thoroughfare, and that is all there is within the Ventnor 

 limits south of that channel. But almost the entire marsh area 

 north of that line to the Beach Thoroughfare is more or less 

 a breeding area. In that area there are narrow ridges parallel 

 with and close to the Thoroughfare, and especially to the north, 

 bad breeding places are found at their base. Drainage 

 is easy and ditches may be led to the Thoroughfare, the Ventnor 

 Canal, Big Turtle Flat and other smaller creeks which cut the 

 meadow^s and carry tide water and fish everywhere. 



There is a small island between Shelter Bay and the Beach 

 Thoroughfare, just north of that part of Ventnor lying west of 

 the canal, and mosquito breeding goes on pretty uniformly over 

 the entire surface. Ditches may be run to all sides and it will 

 be easy to drain the entire area with a few good-sized channels. 



South Atlantic City is even worsv^. than Ventnor as a breeding 

 area. For nearly its entire length a depression runs parallel to 

 the beach dunes, followed by a ridge which begins in Ventnor, 

 broadens through the city and narrows again before the Long- 

 port line. This ridge is also parallel to the shore line, and in the 

 depression between them mosquito breeding places are numerous 

 and virulent. Alillions of specimens develop here under favorable 

 conditions and drainage is not easy. It would have to be from 

 one section into the Inside Thoroughfare and from the other in 

 a small creek emptying into Risley's Channel at Longport. Fill- 

 ing is really the better remedy here and must ultimately be done 

 before the land can be made practically useful. 



Northwest of the ridge, just where it joins the marsh, there is 

 another very bad stretch of breeding area, becoming gradually 

 less virulent as the flat marsh is reached. But all the territory 

 to the Thoroughfare breeds insects to some extent. This last area, 

 however, is easily drained, for there are several creeks, as well 

 as. the channel itself, that are available for ditch outlets. 



Longport has only a very small stretch of breeding marsh at 

 its northwest corner, where it touches the South Atlantic line : 

 elsewhere it is entirely free from danger points and the bulk of its 

 supply comes from outside its own territorial limit. It is an easy 

 task to drain this little marsh land into Risley's Channel. 



