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have been mentioned here in the last fifteen minutes, which are 

 more or less troublesome in other parts of the State. Our 

 problem is simply pipiens and sollicitam. The other varieties of 

 mosquitoes do us very little harm and cause us very little trouble. 



In regard to the pipiens there is really nothing new. Its 

 control means faithful, conscientious house-to-house inspection 

 every fourteen days or every ten days during the mosquito 

 breeding season. It means a constant watchfulness and con- 

 scientious inspection. We have found that the efficiency of our 

 work was very much increased by a follow-up plan. In other 

 words, you can't depend absolutely on the average inspector 

 unless you follow him up and check up his work, so during the 

 last season we employed a man to go around and do a species of 

 detective work, or at least check up the work of the various 

 inspectors. We found this increased the efficiency of the house 

 work very materially. As was the experience in preceding sea- 

 sons, our worst breeding places were found under houses where 

 stagnant water laid. In special instances openings sufficient 

 ,to admit a man were made, so that a man could get under the 

 house. High-pressure pumps were used to pump' oil into those 

 places where, of course, we could not tear down a man's house. 



The real problem in this community is the salt-marsh mosquito, 

 the problem of all South Jersey. I can truthfully say that at 

 the present time we have about mastered the situation as far as 

 the pipiens is concerned. 



The work which costs us money is draining and ditching these 

 50,000 acres of salt marsh in Atlantic County. We have made 

 a decided advance in this work. The able Chief Inspector for 

 this Commission is a very modest man, and you wouldn't ever 

 know, if I didn't tell you so, that he is an inventor of the ditching 

 machine, which has enabled _us to go along with a great deal 

 more speed, and which has reduced the cost of our work, as he 

 tells you, about fifty per cent. We have done as much work in 

 the last year, almost, by reason of this machine ditching as we 

 did in the two years previous. In 191 3 the State helped us out 

 and put in 300,000 feet of ditch. That same year our own Com- 

 mission put in 404,365 feet, largely by hand spades. In 19 14 



