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The period beginning with 19 12 brought its own difficult 

 problems. There were then two 1 active agencies for mosquito 

 control work — the State and the County. The business' of the 

 State, represented by the Experiment Station, was to prosecute 

 the drainage of the salt marsh and to' aid the counties in their 

 fight. The business of the County agency was to eliminate the 

 mosquito within its borders. 



Dr. Smith died in March, 191 2, and the writer did not take 

 up his duties until October of the same year. In the interim a 

 considerable amount of salt-marsh ditching was done by the 

 State, but the solution of no problems in mosquito habits or 

 methods of control was undertaken. Essex and Union Counties 

 had, however, put on and carried out campaigns for the control 

 of all species solving many problems of management and organ- 

 ization and obtaining such results as to enlist the substantial sup- 

 port of their people. 



During the fall and winter of 1912-1913 the problem incident 

 to starting work in counties other than Hudson, which needed 

 and was given no special aid, presented themselves to the Experi- 

 ment Station. It was determined to give them a try out, and the 

 appeals of various counties, both coastal and inland, were 

 answered, and statements were prepared and set before the 

 Freeholders. The result was a most determined effort to repeal 

 the law, which must not be ascribed solely, or perhaps even 

 mainly, to extension of the county work but rather to a feeling 

 on the part of many legislators that the act had great possibilities 

 of evil. Nevertheless, the effort to extend the county work played 

 a part in exciting interest adverse to the provisions of the statute. 



It was thus made evident to the Experiment Station that the 

 county work could not be widened any more rapidly than a sub- 

 stantial number of the citizens in the various counties demanded it. 

 Campaigns of education were then inaugurated and the writer 

 lent himself to the work of informing the public in the nature 

 and the benefits of mosquito control work, always working in 

 strict cooperation with the local people. In this way the work 

 was started in Atlantic in 191 3, in Ocean in 191 5, in Monmouth 

 in 191 5, in Middlesex in 1914, in Bergen in 1914, in Passaic in 



