32. - N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 



ignorance and innocence of babies up there as far as this work 

 goes. We haven't any public sentiment about it, except hostile sen- 

 timent against spending money. 



In the early part of January, 1918, our good neighbors of Essex 

 County started us off. They claimed — and truly, I have no doubt, 

 that the fresh water mosquitoes of our great swamps, the upper 

 and the lower Passaic, were invading Newark and the Oranges and 

 Montclair and pretty nearly all of Essex Gourity, making life intol- 

 erable, and they wanted Morris County to take care of its ov/n. And 

 through the assistance of Dr. Headlee, we had a commission ap- 

 pointed. All the knowledge the commissioners have in regard to 

 mosquito work, they acquired from Dr. Headlee, of the State Ex- 

 periment Station, New Brunswick ; and we did not get all of his 

 knowledge by a long sight. 



We decided that in the midst of the war preparations of the 

 country it would be most unwise to go to our Board of Freeholders 

 and ask for an appropriation which would be sufficient to start the 

 work and do it on a proper basis ; but that if we could get enough to 

 make a survey and find out what we had to do we would make a 

 good start. By the advice and cooperation of Dr. Headlee and Dr. 

 Lipman we asked for $2,000 from the Board of Freeholders. Our 

 Bergen County neighbors loaned us one of their boys, and he came 

 over and worked four months for us. His report was a corker. It 

 really was a marvel of efficient work in showing us what we had 

 to do. 



But the real work came when we sat down with that report and 

 tried to figure out the cost of doing the necessary work. Well, now, 

 it is going to be some few years before we accomplish the definite 

 end to which we have set ourselves, but we are going to do it. 



We spent last year $1,131 in our survey. We havn't done any 

 work. There is nothing to tell you. This year our plan is just the 

 same thing. All we can do this year is educate our people up to 

 the point of letting us subtract a few dollars from the Board of 

 Freeholders without such a great protest that we will kill the 

 whole thing. . . . 



We have no complaint to make of your mosquitoes coming over 

 to us. We sorrowfully admit that ours do go and visit you. 



President Engle: The next County to be represented is Essex 

 County, by Edward W. Jackson, the member from Newark. 



