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hundred dollars at five per cent, would be thirty-five dollars, the 

 water rights and taxes would be at least five dollars more; in 

 all, forty dollars per acre per annum. Hence, five tons of alfalfa 

 hay would represent interest charges and taxes of forty dollars, 

 to say nothing of the cost of seed, seeding and the harvesting 

 and curing and handling of that hay. Right here in New Jersey 

 we 'can buy land for fifty dollars an acre, and some of it for less, 

 that will grow five tons of alfalfa, and that hay will sell for 

 seventeen and eighteen dollars per ton. This is merely an ex- 

 ample of what agricultural opportunities may mean in New 

 Jersey. There is great development awaiting the southern part 

 of the State, but it is obvious that settlers will not be attracted 

 if conditions are at all like those that Dr. Hunt has described, 

 or like those which the people who live in Cape May or Atlantic 

 or eastern Burlington or Ocean find them to be. 



Our salt marshes are just as good as the marsh lands of Hol- 

 land, which sell for five and six hundred dollars an acre. In 

 time they will be transformed into the finest grazing land, but 

 live stock farming in Southern New Jersey will never be profit- 

 able as long as the mosquitoes are a pest. But who will gainsay 

 that there is a great agricultural problem, in Southern New Jer- 

 sey? Mosquitoes are a factor in this problem, and the full de- 

 velopment of Southern New Jersey will not come until this 

 problem has been solved more or less effectively. 



As to the seashore resorts, Southern New Jersey has been 

 called the "Playground of America." It is so, to a great extent. 

 Atlantic City has done its share of the work in freeing the 

 coast of the plague, and still there is more to do. Other coast 

 resorts are not as fortunate as Atlantic City. There are places 

 on the coast which could be more attractive as summer resorts 

 if the mosquitoes were eliminated. 



That will come, and it should come soon if an organized effort 

 is made to. solve the problem as it can be solved. 



Then in Northern New Jersey, as you know, hundreds of 

 acres are being cut up every year into building sites. People in 

 the larger cities are looking for elbow room. There are thou- 

 sands who wish to have a modest country home of, perhaps, a 



