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expression of what the elimination of the mosquito would be 

 worth to the State, of New Jersey. 



I asked him then if he could endorse the program of Dr. 

 Headlee and the other experts in the State, saying that my Board 

 wanted to know what the State could look forward to in the way 

 of assurances, in the way of expense involved for the necessary 

 original work, and in the way of maintenance cost. He said, 

 "Nobody can answer those questions with assurance. In my 

 judgment the estimates and statements that have been made by 

 your own men are reasonable. I know that your own men are 

 more competent to make such estimates and such statements than 

 any other men to be found. In short, Jersey stands to-day in the 

 van in this mosquito work." Well, all that was pretty satisfac- 

 tory. It didn't bring the very positive assurance that I felt we 

 needed, not as a necessity, but as something very desirable, to 

 justify some recommendation on the part of the Board of Con- 

 servation and Development that the State should take up this 

 question. 



Now, gentlemen, that is as far as I can go. I have come to 

 these meetings, and the members of the Board, three of them, 

 have been here, and we shall take away a conviction that New 

 Jersey, or some of its various counties, are doing, perhaps, not its 

 whole duty, but a tremendous amount of very important work. 



I am sure we shall take away the conviction that in the minds 

 of those who are most competent to judge and to determine mos- 

 quito elimination is a possibility, and a possibility that is within 

 reason in respect- to cost and in respect to maintenance. If we 

 can establish that it looks as if it would not be tremendously diffi- 

 cult to carry forward a program, looking to ultimate control, and 

 as further justification for any such a program, let me add a 

 word or two to what Dr. Lipman said last night in respect to 

 what lies behind this mosquito elimination. 



I know that it has had its chief impetus up to this time from 

 the interest in our suburban sections and in our resort sections. 

 We can assuredly count upon these interests to carry this work 

 forward. I do not think there is any doubt about that. There 

 remains the greater interest of our agricultural lands, and of the 

 industries associated with or lying upon them. 



