I/O N. J. Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 348 



Practical Procedure in Mosquito Control 



Let it be assumed that the preHminary survey work has been 

 completed, a detailed report prepared, preliminary educational work 

 done, a fairly sufficient sum of money secured, and an organization 

 created to carry on the work. What is the nature and course of the 

 practical operations? 



Financial Arrangements 



With the exception of about 10 per cent, which should be reserved 

 for emergencies, the whole available sum should be divided into two 

 parts, one of which is to support the temporary work and the other 

 the permanent operations. Obviously, the organization must do 

 enough temporary work to aflford marked relief or later support will 

 probably be difficult if not impossible to obtain, and equally true is 

 it that a certain amount of permanent work must be done or the 

 demand for more complete protection, which is certain year by year 

 to become more insistent, can not be met. 



Under the head of temporary work certain amounts should be al- 

 lotted to supervision, certain amounts to inspection, certain amounts 

 to equipment, supplies and labor. Under the head of permanent 

 work a certain amount should be allotted to supervision, a certain 

 amount to engineering and a certain amount to contractual obliga- 

 tions. If it should be found that the permanent work can in any or 

 all cases be most satisfactorily done with the organization's own la- 

 borers, the moneys set aside for the payment of contractural obliga- 

 tions may be divided in equipment, supplies, and labor. 



Not only should the budget be made for the year but, in order that 

 the directing agency may exercise a real check upon the rate of ex- 

 penditures, the yearly budget should be built upon a monthly or 

 even a shorter unit-period basis. Without some such scheme, ap- 

 parent emergencies may arise and consume the appropriation, leav- 

 ing nothing for the still greater emergency or at least leaving the or- 

 ganization, at the end of the season, with little to show for its labors. 



At each regular meeting of the controlling agency the financial 

 statement should show : 



1. Total expenditure for the entire preceding period. 



2. Total expenditure for preceding unit-period. 



3. Balance on hand. 



4. Bills payable and bills receivable. 



