The Mosquitoes of New Jersey 195 



For the sake of clearness it seems to be advisable to give a sep- 

 arate account of the activities of each of several groups, all of which 

 were working in one way or another along lines of mosquito sup- 

 pression. 



Anti-mosquito Work of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment 

 Station from 1902 to 1911, inclusive 



Sufficient progress was made by Dr. Smith with the appropriation 

 of 1900 to enable him to induce the Legislature of the state in the 

 year 1902 to pass an act appropriating the sum of $10,000 for a study 

 of the mosquito problem. The language of the act is submitted 

 herewith : 



Chapter 98, Laws of 1902 



An Act to provide for an investigation and report by the Ncn.' Jersey Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station upon the mosquito problem in its relation to the 

 sanitary, agricultural and other interests of the state. 



Be it enacted bj- tlie Senate and General As.sembly of the State of New 

 Jersey : 



1. The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station be and the same is- 

 hereby empowered and directed to investigate and report upon the mos- 

 quitoes occurring within the state, their habits, life history, breeding places, 

 relation to malarial and other diseases, the injury caused by them to the agri- 

 cultural, sanitary and other interests of the state, their natural enemies, and 

 the best methods of lessening, controlling or otherwise diminishing the num- 

 bers, injury or detrimental effect upon the agricultural, sanitary and other 

 interests of the state. 



2. The sum of $10,000 is hereby appropriated to the New Jersey Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station to be applied to and expended for the purpose men- 

 tioned in section i of this act ; such expenditures to be made and accounted 

 for in the same manner as are the other moneys appropriated to said station. 



3. This act shall take effect immediately. 

 Approved April 3, 1902. 



Unfortunately the appropriation committee failed to provide the 

 money and the work was continued during the following summer 

 only through the interest of Governor Murphy, who set aside from 

 his emergency fund the sum of $1,000 for this purpose. The ap- 

 propriation committee of the 1903 Legislature provided the funds 

 contemplated in 1902. 



With the necessary funds in hand Dr. Smith planned and carried 

 out a very careful study of the structural characters, the life history 

 and habits, and methods of controlling the principal species. He 

 proved for the first time that salt-marsh-bred species migrated for 

 long distances over the upland, reaching points more than 30 miles 

 awav in large numbers and infesting seriously more than one-half the 



