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Dr. HeadleE — This word will be short. I think you will be 

 interested in knowing that, in a personal conversation with the 

 Chairman of the Board of Freeholders in Ocean County the 

 other day, at a cranberry meeting, he said, "While I am not con- 

 vinced that this ditching will do all you claim for it, I am con- 

 vinced that it will do the meadow a lot of good, and I am willing 

 that it should be tried for mosquito extermination," and it is 

 only fair to say that the Board, something like a month ago, 

 made a $4,000 appropriation without being requested. 



Adjournment taken until eight o'clock P. M. 



(SECOND SESSION. 



Thursday Evening, February iyth, 19 16. 



Meeting called to order by Ralph H. Hunt, M.D., President, 

 at 8.20 P. M. 



The President — Gentlemen, it becomes my pleasure, for the 

 third time, to introduce the speaker of the evening. He is very 

 near to our hearts as mosquito fighters. I think, perhaps, he is 

 the foremost mosquito exterminator in the world. I don't know 

 that Dr. Howard has a peer in the world as an entomologist, and 

 he is particularly effective when he directs his energy against the 

 mosquito. It was Dr. Howard who first preached the gospel of 

 mosquito extermination in New Jersey, in the village of South 

 O'range, and if Mr. Spencer Miller were here I would ask him 

 to give us a few introductory remarks. I can't say enough in 

 praise of this man and his work, and it gives me great pleasure 

 to ask him to present his paper to you this evening. I am sure you 

 will all get great enjoyment and instruction from it. 



Dr. HowARD^Mr. President and members of the Association, 

 I assure you that, in spite of what the President has said, there 

 are many men here who are rather better mosquito exterminators 

 than I am, but I come here each year not for the purpose of 



