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insects. The canals were stocked with killies, but they survived 

 the changed conditions only a few hours, and every ditch (about 

 40,000 feet) became a beautiful breeding place. 



During the 19 14 season we used on this territory sixty barrels 

 of oil and the necessary amount of labor, which was very con- 

 siderable, due to the inaccessible position of the meadow. At the 

 latter end of that season our Commission installed here a ten- 

 horsepower gasoline engine and pump' — capacity 400 gallons per 

 minute. This pump was operated through the last season, (191 5) 

 and paid for itself in that time in a saving of labor and material, 

 only five barrels of oil being used on isolated places, and the 

 entire area kept free of breeding, which could not be done pre- 

 viously. 



Another section of the Kearny Meadow — bounded by the 

 Newark Turnpike on the south ; the East Jersey water-pipe line 

 on the east ; the Belleville Turnpike, the Greenwood Lake Branch 

 of the Erie Railroad, and the upland, on the north and northwest, 

 and Frank Creek on the west — this tract comprises seven hun- 

 dred acres of cat-tail meadow, its elevation is about eighteen 

 inches above low tide, and is to some extent affected by tidewater. 

 At the beginning of last season the salinity of the water was four 

 per cent. 



Here, also, our outlets are confined to Frank Creek — natural 

 drainage was impossible, rendering necessary the use of hundreds 

 of barrels of oil each season and a tremendous amount of hard 

 labor. The Erie Railroad Company placed at our service hand- 

 cars to distribute oil along the unused spurs, and detailed a flag- 

 man to accompany our men while on the used branch running 

 through this territory, yet we were only slightly rewarded for 

 our labor and expense. 



After June first only the edges along the railroad could be 

 reached. Probably six hundred acres was inaccessible after that 

 date, and continued to breed to the end of the season. 



In 19 14 we made several thousand feet of ditches through this 

 territory, anticipating the installation of a pump, and in 191 5 

 we completed the ditches, having made sixty-five thousand feet, 

 some of them a mile long and thirty inches wide. In June, 191 5, 



