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lut excellent for preventing the entrance of iish to the pools. 

 ':"he same measures recommended above apply here. 



There are a few low places opposite Buckwheat Island which 

 are best drained by ditches into the Arthur Kill. All the others, 

 near the highlands, can be led into the creeks which branch in 

 every direction, which are filled with fish and which are so lo- 

 cated as to make the complete drying out of the meadow the 

 simplest sort of a task. 



The area south of Tremley to the Rahway River on the east 

 side of the New York and Long Branch Railroad has a number 

 of very bad breeding places which produce great numbers of 

 specimens at all periods during the summer. There is little nat- 

 ural drainage here and in the absence of creeks or other water 

 courses several wide ditches would have to be cut here to receive 

 the narrow laterals that would reach into the low places. This 

 \yould form the most expensive section and would at the same 

 time put out of existence the worst breeding territory in this 

 vicinity. 



On the west side of the New York and Long Branch Railroad, 

 from Tremley to a high piece of ground near the Rahway River 

 there is another very bad breeding place. The meadow is not 

 large and it lies high; but the holes in it are not supplied with 

 fish in any case so that all of them are mosquito factories. It 

 needs only a few short ditches to reach all the dangerous holes 

 and drain them. 



The area on the south side of the Rahway River from the 

 New York and Long Branch Railroad to the Arthur Kill east 

 and west and the highland on the south has a considerable num- 

 ber of bad breeding pools. This is a rather solid meadow ; solid 

 enough to bear horses, and a considerable portion of the salt hay 

 is cut with mowing machines. A number of natural creeks and 

 some ditches run through this meadow. The ditches can be 

 made more useful by cleaning them ; the creeks are in better con- 

 dition and can be used to receive the narrow drainage ditches. 

 Ditches will not be needed in many parts of this meadow as it 

 contains comparatively few holes; a much smaller number than 

 is found in those further north. The ground is good and ditches 

 once cut will stand indefinitely with only a little care to prevent 

 their being clogged. The Rahway River is deep enough to give 

 the ditches a three-foot fall, enabling them to completely dry out 

 the low area close to the highland. This is one of the most easily 

 (h-ained marsh areas in New Jersey and good results should be 

 cbtained here with less money than any other equal section of 

 the territory in the State. 



