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NEW JERSEY 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS 



CIRCULAR/ 111 



»QUITO MUST GO 



Complete suppression of the salt marsh mosquito in New 

 Jersey is practicable and opens the way for an increase of more 

 than $500,000,000 in the taxable values of the state to be achieved 

 within a period of 20 years 



The salt-marsh mosquito by reason of its ability to produce 

 unbearable discomfort among the people within its reach has 

 proved, and is likely to continue to prove (unless something is 

 done to prevent it), a most serious retarding influence on the 

 agricultural, seashore, industrial and urban development. The 

 natural movement of agricultural capital and labor from regions 

 of high agricultural land value and distant markets to the region 

 of low agricultural land values and nearby markets is to a great 

 extent prevented by the presence of these insects. The utiliza- 

 tion of the unexampled seashore resort advantages is without 

 doubt tremendously retarded, and the development of industrial 

 enterprises along the waterways and coasts is seriously inter- 

 fered with by this pest. 



The Agricultural Ratables Can Be Increased $100,000,000 



The development of the agricultural resources would re- 

 ceive both a direct and an indirect stimulus from the drainage 

 of the salt marshes. At the present time the natural movement 

 of capital and population from high-priced farm lands, remote 

 from markets and outside the state, to low-priced farm lands 

 within the state with nearby markets, is hindered by the salt- 

 marsh mosquitoes. The latter, by their 30 or 40 mile flights, 



♦Prepared for publication April 17, 1919 by Thomas J. Headlee, 

 Ph. D., Entomologist, and Mitchel Carroll, Ph. D., Assistant Entomolo- 

 gist. 



