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talking - to you, but for the purpose of picking up points. I think 

 nowhere in the world is there as much practical knowledge on the 

 subject of mosquito extermination as exists in the State of New 

 Jersey. 



The State of New Jersey is very unique in another way. No- 

 where else in the world is there such an extreme combination 

 of large invested capital and enormous areas of salt marsh in 

 juxtaposition, and yet I understand you are a little doubtful 

 whether your Legislature will invest enough money in doing away 

 with this salt-marsh-mosquito scourge to enable you to do it in 

 a timely and effective manner. 



I just came this morning from Boston. I attended a confer- 

 ence of the people interested in the gypsy moth and brown-tail 

 moth. Do you realize in the last four years Massachusetts has 

 appropriated annually $200,000, and that the personal property- 

 holders have spent $550,000' a year more, and that in ten years 

 Massachusetts has spent $7,500,000 at work against the gypsy 

 moth and brown-tail moth without any hope of exterminating 

 either of them, but of holding them in check and making condi- 

 tions in the infested area livable, and protecting the rest of the 

 country. And yet New Jersey hesitates over an appropriation 

 of one or two or three hundred thousand dollars a year in an 

 effort to do something which will add greatly to its wealth. It 

 would be a magnificent investment for New Jersey if it fol- 

 lowed out the plans of this association as outlined by Dr. Headlee 

 last year, and spend $250,000 a year for the next three or four 

 years and accomplish something, and by the end of that time 

 the salt-marsh mosquito would have been held absolutely in 

 check, and be no longer a menace to this State. 



When Dir. Headlee spoke to me last winter about coming to 

 this meeting he said, "We have heard something about bat-roost 

 experiments in Texas. Will you tell something about the Texas 

 work and whether the plan can be adopted to advantage in the 

 State of New Jersey ?" So I prepared a statement of the case. 

 I think it is about time the actual situation is analyzed. I think 

 it is about time that some scientific man should tell people who 

 are really interested what seems to be the real truth about bats 

 and mosquitoes. 



