Procekdings 01^ FiF^TH Annuai. Meeting 



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Tuckerton. Port Republic was like the rest of the Shore Road, 

 beside drained marshes but in reach of flights from undrained 

 meadows. At Woodbine the full density of the brood was found. 

 The marshes in the neighborhood of Cape May City are drained 

 ■and the mosquitoes must come in on a northeast or a northwest 

 breeze. 



The table strikingly illustrates the absence of the fresh-water 

 swamp and woodland pool problems from that portion of the 

 coast which lies south of the Raritan River. 



CONCLUSIONS 



1. To the 95,0001 acres of drained salt marsh reported last 

 year have been added 9,000 drained this year. 



2. Of the two agencies at work on the problem of salt-marsh 

 drainage the county unit has become preeminent, doing 92^ per 

 cent of the total. 



3. At the present rate the drainage of Ocean County can be 

 completed in five years, that of Atlantic County in six and that O'f 

 the state in sixteen. 



4. The need of more generous state aid is imperative. 



5. Many mosquitoes were bred last year, both on the salt marsh 

 and the upland, and trouble was experienced in some of the pro'- 

 tected areas, but an examination of the conditions outside the pro- 

 tected area shows that the protected areas were really protected. 



President Brinkerhop^b' — There are three committees to be 

 appointed and I will annoimce them now. They will report tO'- 

 morrow at 9 o'clock. 



Committee on Audit — General Heber Brientnall, Mr. Louis J. 

 Richards and Dr. Williamson. 



Committee on Nominations — Dr. William E. Darnall, Mr. 

 Wilfred A. Manchee, Mr. John PolHtt. 



Committee on Resolutions — Mr. Robert R Engle, Mr. H. G. 

 Van Note, Mr. Reid Howell. 



D'r. W11.1.1AM E. D'ARNAi^L (Atlantic City) — Inasmuch as in 

 this convention there seems to have been some little confusion 

 about the relation between what the state does in this work and 



