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dropped down perhaps to four or five dollars. Then there were 

 some more inaccessible. For instance, there was one town one hundred 

 and fift}^ miles from a railroad, took two ds.ys on a stage, and then a 

 day and a half to get to the town with a rig after that, away back in 

 the mountains. There were several towns located in this way and 

 the judging expense of course was high. Some of the towns offered 

 to defray part of the expense in order to be sure that the judge came 

 down and visited them. Perhaps the little town of Manti cost the 

 most to the town since the town offered a large number of prizes and 

 they went into it rather hea^dh'. The interest was so strong that when 

 the judging was postponed for several days, they received word by 

 telephone, and they had a man out in an automobile the next morning 

 with a megaphone announcing that they had three more days to 

 clean up" and "to get busy." And they did get busy. 



So far as the expense is concerned, it is really small, I believe, com- 

 pared with the benefit the town received from it. Even real estate 

 men were interested and some told me that the increase in the value 

 of real estate was worth many times the cost it had been to the town 

 or state. 



A , Member: The expense then was borne by the Development 

 League? 



Mr. E. G. Titus: Yes, and also the State Board of Health, and 

 others, and then we brought in one man from outside to judge Salt 

 Lake and Ogden. There was considerable rivalry- between the two 

 cities — they are close together. 



A Member: I want to express mj' appreciation and heart}' approval 

 of this line of work. I know something about such work and judge 

 that it must have taken an enormous amount of energj' and labor to 

 carry this contest to a conclusion. 



Mr. E. G. Titus: Larvacides were used to a very slight extent; 

 the main thing was to get manure out of the way. In some of the 

 towns we did try out borax and other things. We had some manme 

 containers or large vats built in the state; we built one at the college 

 and I believe there have recenth' been others built at different times. 

 They suit us pretty well. 



]\Ir. F. C. Bishopp: I am sure Dr. Titus is to be congratulated on 

 the admirable waj^ in which this campaign was conducted. I was 

 much pleased with the results secured in the small towns. From the 

 little we have been doing in the south, we have seen that that is going 

 to be the big problem — large cities will take care of it better. I was 

 very much pleased indeed to -see how the small towns showed up in 

 this contest. I wanted also to mention a point that he briefly brought 

 out, that is, the need of caring for breeding-places in the winter time. 



