442 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



aroused. The object of the meeting was stated, officers were elected and a 

 permanent organization, called the Monmouth Beach Protective Association, 

 sprang into existence. After appointing the various committees the meet- 

 ing adjourned. The members of the Executive Committee were determined 

 to use ever}^ means in their power to destroy the breeding places in Mon- 

 mouth Beach and vicinity, consequently they were very active during the 

 past winter in marshaling their forces and getting ready for a very active 

 campaign. 



Operations were commenced February 15th of the present year. Prof. 

 Smith's assistant, Mr. H. H. Brehme, and the writer covered the entire ter- 

 ritory where breeding places were likely to occur and laid out a system of 

 ditches, aggregating in all about two hundred thousand feet (200,000 feet), 

 and extending from North Long Branch to Seabright and from Seabright 

 to Little Silver creek, in the Rumson Neck side of the river. Maps were 

 prepared and submitted to Prof. John B. Smith and the committees of the 

 two associations, a civil engineer, sent by Professor Smith, also submitted 

 a report after an investigation of the proposed system. Said report was 

 very favorable. Upon the completion of the preparatory work the asso- 

 ciation at Monmouth Beach awarded the contract for the ditching to Mr. 

 Jesse P. Manahan. The ditches were to be six inches wide and two feet 

 deep on the average and the entire work was to be subject to the approval 

 of Professor Smith, or his assistant. Cost of the same about fifteen hvm- 

 dred dollars ($1,500). The work commenced March 24th and was completed 

 April i8th. It might prove interesting to state that larvae were found in 

 large numbers on March 23d on both sides of the river. 



While the above work was going on the association at Rumson Neck 

 determined to adopt the same course of procedure. Consequently, Mr. 

 Manahan was awarded the contract and agreed, for twelve hundred dollars 

 ($i,2Co), to eliminate all breeding places on the Rumson Neck side of the 

 river. The work was commenced on April igth and completed May 7th, 

 Professor Smith's assistant, Mr. H. H. Brehme, supervising the same. Upon 

 the completion of the entire system of ditching, the work was pronounced 

 satisfactory and approved as per contract. Baker's field was also drained 

 for two hundred and sixty dollars ($260). 



On March 30th the Duffield bill became a law, and on July nth the Town- 

 ship Committee of Ocean passed an ordinance condemning all breeding 

 places. 



The committees of the associations realizing the necessity of keeping the 

 ditches in operation, engaged men for that purpose, and they have been kept 

 in the field to the present writing. The work was a success and the re- 

 sults obtained have been satisfactory. The residents of Monmouth Beach 

 have not been troubled with the pest this year. Mosquitoless Monmouth is 

 the appellation now used; health and comfort have been obtained at a very 

 small cost, considering the benefit derived. The advance in real estate and 

 the increased number of rentals, caused by the absence of the mosquito, 

 will surely be an argument that none can combat. I understand that the 

 associations intend to enlarge their territory and eradicate the balance of the 

 breeding places that .still remain a menace to the residents of Monmouth 

 Beach and Rumson Neck. (Signed) EUGENE WINSHIP. 



September 29th, 1904. 



Mr. Brehme's Report on the Shrewsbury River area is as 

 follows : 



During inspections made in 1903 from Seabright to North 

 Long Branch, the following breeding places were discovered : 

 Opposite the Low Moor Station, a small area. A very bad 

 breeding place opposite the United States life saving station 

 between Low Moor and Gallilee. Still a worse place was found 



