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itself, through its Committee and its individual members, to use its best 

 endeavors to secure a substantial appropriation from the Cape May County 

 Board of Freeholders for the purpose of mosquito control, and to continue 

 to urge such yearly appropriation as shall be necessary to rid the county 

 of Cape May of the mosquito pest; and 



"Be it resolved, That copies of these resolutions be forwarded to the New- 

 Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association, to be read at its annual con- 

 vention at Atlantic City." 



The next number on our .program was by Mr. Slpencer Miller. 

 I am sorry he is not here. You all know him, but as he is not here 

 and we will pass it by, so it comes to my good friend, Dr. 

 BrinkerhofT, of Jersey City, to tell us of the work in Hudson 

 County. 



Dr. Brinkerhoff — Mr. Chairman, there is not very much for 

 me to say in regard to Hudson County, because we are probably 

 following out the same line of work in the advancement of 

 mosquito control as every other county in the State. Mr. Delaney 

 has practically told you all of the advances that we have made in 

 Hudson County during the past year. We are following out 

 the plan of a year ago in this year installing one electric pump 

 in the meadows that cannot be drained by gravity, simply because 

 of the fact that the old dike system of years ago draining the 

 meadows allowed the meadowland itself to become shrunken, as 

 was shown in Mr. Slater's paper of last year. We are handi- 

 capped the same as Bergen County by the presence of large salt 

 marsh, which is more than twice the size of the combined salt- 

 marsh areas of Essex and Union Counties. For the smallest 

 county in the State we think we have some meadowland, and the 

 whole is gridironed by railroads. We have considerable difficulty 

 in so draining our meadows as to keep them, dry and for that 

 reason these pumps have been put in, We have about 700,000 

 feet of ditching at the present time and are advertising for an- 

 other 100,000. 



I find that we have practically 132 miles of ditching. I am 

 glad to hear Bergen County has 90 miles of ditching, for that 

 means she is making progress. We are working in conjunction 

 with every other county in that part of our State, although 



