EXPERIMENT STATION REPOET. 669 



At Cape May the meadows and depressions from the city to the 



point, can be cleaned up for ?600 00 



This does not include clearing the cape marsh, which requires one 

 or more tide gates and may require some ditching; the whole 



at a cost not to exceed I,.j00 00 



This would include the meadow at Life-saving Station No, 

 41. An enormous amount of filling has been done between 

 Sewell's Point and Cape May City, and the whole of that ter- 

 ritory is now mosquito safe. 



The area between Port Norris and Dennis creek, along the shores of 



Delaware bay ; mostly good ditching, can be drained for 8,0(30 00 



Between Dennis creek and Higbee's Landing, along the west shore 

 of Cape May peninsula, are several detached marshes which 

 may cost . .* 10,000 00 



Between Port Norris, along the shores of the Maurice river, west 

 along the bay to the Cohansey, and along the Cohansey to 

 Bridgeton, drainage would cost 20,000 00 



Between Salem creek and the mouth of Cohansey creek is a stretch 

 of meadow about twenty miles in length and from 500 feet to 

 three miles in width, most of which is perfectly safe, and all 

 of it easily drainable ; it will cost not over 15,000 00 



$315,550 00 



It appears, then, that for the sum of $325,000, at the outside, the 

 entire shore line on salt water in the State of New Jersey could be 

 made mosquito safe :— $10,000 being added for expenses of adminis- 

 tration and supervision. From three to five years would be required to 

 do the work, depending upon the amounts of money that would be 

 available ; but it should take three years for proper supervision. 



As to the result, all the shore resorts would be free from the clouds 

 of mosquitoes that now infest them for the entire season. The entire 

 pine region, which is now so overrun most of the summer as to be 

 almost uninhabitable, would be freed of its most offensive species. 

 The cities on New York, Newark and Earitan bays would be prac- 

 ticaUy mosquito free, and the first range of the Orange mountains 

 almost entirely so. The influence of the work would extend not only 

 to the immediate vicinity of the shore, but for many miles inland. 

 New Brunswick, for instance, which has no salt marsh, would be made 

 almost entirely free. 



Would there not remain many large inland mosquito-breeding areas ? 

 Undoubtedly: in the early spring woodland pools would breed great 

 quantities; but they never leave the woods and disappear in June, not 

 to occur again that year. Some of the low, wooded sections of the 

 Great Piece meadow would breed mosquitoes all the summer through ; 



