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and all members of the State Association to^ secure legislation 

 that will enable us tO' prosecute and cause the punishment of per- 

 sonsi who wilfully stop the ditches, thereby creating breeding 

 places and rendering the work done of no' effect. The ditches 

 are cut by the people's money and any one who nullifies the value 

 of the work by stopping them should be piunished. 



There are many offenders in Ocean County who have caused 

 us considerable expense and annoyance, and the only means of 

 reaching them at piresent is through the local boards of health, a 

 process round-about and unsatisfactory. 



The commission takes this opportunity tO' expiress its apprecia- 

 tion of the ready and willing help accorded us by Dr. Thomas J. 

 Headlee, the State Entomologist. He has: always, been ready to 

 come to us when called upon, and he brings toi the work a knowl- 

 edge and ''punch" that we need sO' much of the time. 



iPrEshdEnt Brinkerhoff — The next report is from Burling- 

 ton County, by Mr. Frank Chambers, of New Lisbon. 



Secretary Headi.ee^ — As Mir. Chambers is not here, I will 

 discuss the situation in Burlington County. 



Burlingtoni County has between 9,000 and 10,000 acres of salt 

 marsh, lying north of the Mullica River, between Atlantic and 

 Ocean counties. There is a sentiment among a certain group of 

 people in Burlington County in favor of undertaking the drainage 

 of that salt marsh, but thus far that sentiment has not been 

 crystallized. A number of men have met on that particular 

 problem recently. It was decided that some attempt should be 

 made toward forming a commission and getting things, started. 

 In some way the men became discouraged, the commission was 

 not formed, and no request was made of the board of freeholders 

 for the work for this year. I think we can safely prophesy, 

 however, that before another year has gone by there will be an 

 active mosquito^ commission in Burlington County. With Bm- 

 lington working, Ocean working and Atlantic working, it is only 

 a question of four or five years until the entire marsh from Jer- 

 sey City to Cape May County will be drained. 



President BrinkErhofe — The next paper is by Mr. Fred 

 Reilly, of Atlantic County. 



