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of the salt marshes where mosquitoes breed in abundance. The 

 entire town contains only about 330 acres of salt marsh, so it 

 ought not to be difficult to raise the money to ditch this com- 

 paratively small area. 



Were conditions normal we might expect considerable new 

 work to be done in Connecticut under the provisions of the pres- 

 ent law, but on account of the scarcity of labor the many needs 

 and demands for money for patriotic, charitable and relief pur- 

 poses, imquestionably some of this anti-mosquito work must 

 be deferred until after the war is over. 



Pre:side^nT Brinke^rhoi^i^ — We will proceed to the next paper, 

 ^'Migration as a Factor in Control," by Dr. Headlee, State Ento- 

 mologist. 



