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That would make the saw have a tendency to lie on the bottom. 

 If this were a stream or pond, we will say, full of vegetation, the 

 saw will extend up to the bank. From that point on we tie a 

 piece of wood and then have a piece of wood or handle, the same 

 on this side, and the men saw this way, one on one side and one 

 on the other. If the saw is too long we will have two men on it. 

 They just saw right and left. 



We had a very interesting time in obtaining those saws. Some of 

 them turned up I think in six months after they were ordered. But 

 we got interested in them going through the cotton mills of the 

 south. They have there what they call lickerin wire. It has teeth 

 on it, and costs, if 1 remember rightly, about three cents a foot. 

 And we took two of those lickerin wires — they are carried by all 

 houses which carry cotton mill machinery — and we strapped them 

 back to ba,ck at every foot, and then about every four feet we 

 had an inch pipe slid over, and filled them up with lead. And so 

 we made our own saws at about one-tenth of the cost, and we were 

 able to miake them right away and not wait several months for the 

 sawmill people who have this patented. We made our own. They 

 turned out very useful. 



President Engle: We are very much pleased to see with us 

 tonight Dr. L. O. Howard, of Washington. He stands today, 

 without doubt, the foremost authority on mosquitoes. I am sure 

 the members of the association would be happy to hear from Dr. 

 Howard. 



Dr. L. O. Howard: I cannot tell New Jersey anything about 

 mosquitoes. I came up here to learn, not to tell a single thing. 



I think there must be some people here who do not realize what 

 a famous man they have been listening to. His grasp of the subject 

 has impressed us all, and he has taught us a great many things. He 

 has taught us many other things, for the branch of the service he 

 belongs to has been doing some magnificen work. It makes me 

 prouder than ever to be a leader under Uncle Sam again after lis- 

 tening to Mr. LePrince. 



But as to Mr. LePrince himself, he looks like a young man, but 

 he has been twenty years fighting mosquitoes. When Col. Gorgas 

 went to Havana, Mr. LePrince was his right hand man. If there 

 had been no LePrince, undoubtedly Col. Gorgas would have got 

 somebody else who would have done the work. But no one would 

 have done quite as good work as Mr. LePrince. So when he was 



