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The electric pump cost us about thirteen hundred dollars, includ- 

 ing the feed wire and the erection of the pump house. Seven 

 hundred acres are drained by that pump, with about 70,000 feet 

 of ditches. 



The President — If you will pardon the Chair, I will make 

 just a few comments on these two papers. It seems to me 

 perfectly evident that both methods are desirable and necessary, 

 that they do not necessarily stand in competition, one with the 

 other, as some might judge by the tenor of the discussion. There 

 is no question but what certain meadows are to be handled and 

 best controlled by dikes and by gates. Other meadows are to be 

 controlled by pumps, and perhaps many meadows may be better 

 controlled by both methods. 



It gives me pleasure now to announce the next speaker, a man 

 whom, I had the pleasure of introducing to mosquito extermina- 

 tion work in New Jersey. He was and had been under Mr. Le 

 Prince in the Canal Zone, and has served as Deputy Chief 

 Inspector of the Essex County Mosquito Extermination Com- 

 mission. At the request of the Atlantic County Commission we 

 permitted him to resign and go to Atlantic County. Since that 

 time Mr. Eaton has been working for Atlantic County, and it 

 gives me pleasure to introduce him as one of the most progressive 

 mosquito exterminators in the State, Mr. Harold Eaton, of 

 Atlantic. 



The Cost of Salt-Marsh Drainage for Mosquito Control. 



BY MR. HAROLD EATON. 



During the three years in which anti-mosquito work has been 

 carried on in Atlantic County, an excellent opportunity has been 

 afforded for the study of the most effective methods of eliminat- 

 ing mosquito breeding from the salt marsh and also of the most 

 economical methods of prosecuting the work of drainage. 

 Previous to the formation of the County Commission, no salt- 

 marsh drainage had been performed in Atlantic County for the 

 purpose of mosquito extermination. Incomplete systems of 



