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has reasonably adequate powers to meet the problem within its own 

 county, and the extent of its operations and the degree of protection 

 afforded to the people therein depend upon the funds which it can 

 obtain from the county board of freeholders to carry on this work. 



The Salt-Marsh Mosquito Problem too Expensive for Counties, State Should 



Be More Generous 



The vast bulk of the still untreated marsh is located within the 

 limits of counties whose taxable values are such that the sums need- 

 ed for the treatment thereof cannot be obtained, except as spread 

 over a long period of years. Nevertheless, within these counties 

 there are enormous possibilities of agricultural and urban develop- 

 ment, which await the suppression of the salt-marsh mosquitoes for 

 their realization. Once the marshes in question have been treated, 

 the funds which the county mosquito extermination commissions can 

 obtain to carry on their work will be adequate to maintain the ditch- 

 ing systems and to suppress the breeding of the fresh-water species. 



This being the state of affairs, it is obvious that if prompt relief 

 is to be obtained and a beginning on the realization of these tre- 

 mendous agricultural, urban and possibly industrial developments 

 is to be made within a reasonable length of time, funds from some 

 other source than the individual counties must be obtained. In view 

 of the fact that the benefits from such development are certain to be 

 state-wide it is entirely reasonable and proper for the state as such 

 to step in and make the necessary appropriations to carry out and 

 complete the initial work of salt-marsh treatment. 



State Should Do Initial Drainage for Control of Salt-Marsh Mosquito, 

 Counties can Maintain Salt-Marsh Work and Attend to Fresh- 

 Water Species 



After the state has done this initial work the county mosquito 

 extermination commission will take over the maintenance burden at 

 once and will continue its present work and will be able gradually, 

 as education in mosquito-control matters becomes more general, to 

 take up and control the breeding of all species within the limits of the 

 state in such a fashion that the New Jersey people will not be aware 

 that mosquitoes are about. 



Progress Made in New Jersey 



The progress made up to the close of 1919 is set forth in the 

 following statement : 



Last year (1919) we were able to say approximately 120,000 acres of the 

 salt marsh have been rendered reasonably free from mosquito breeding. This 



