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No. 5. Notwithstanding the tales of unbelievers in mosquito 

 extermination, Atlantic County has, during the past season, less 

 mosquitoes than ever known in the memory of man. The cry of 

 the pesky mosquito is becoming obsolete in Atlantic County. The 

 slumbers of our guests, from whom much of our revenue is de- 

 rived, are not disturbed by their music, and they leave us un- 

 spotted by their venomous bites and a longing to return to this, 

 the ''world's greatest pleasure ground." 



No. 6. The next ditching will be done on the west of the Egg 

 Harbor River and along Brigantine Island, the latter being the 

 breeding place of the flights that come to the Shore Road in the 

 vicinity of the Sea View Golf Club. 



We have done some thinking on a plan to substitute power 

 machinery in place of hand labor for cleaning ditches to economize 

 and expedite this work. 



President Engle: Monmouth County will be heard from next, 

 Mr. Harry G. Van Note, Superintendent. 



Monmouth County 



•BY HARRY G. VAN NOTE, SUPERINTENDENT 



The Monmouth County Mosquito Commission commenced opera- 

 tions the latter part of March to exterminate the salt marsh mos- 

 quito for the season of 1918. 



The cleaning of ditches had not been started long when a furious 

 northeast storm, accompanied by unusual high winds which caused 

 abnormal high tides, appeared and lasted three days. The tides 

 were so high that the previous record was almost reached. 



The ditches already cleaned and those to be cleaned became 

 badly blocked with all kinds of drift wood and other refuse matter. 

 When work was recommenced after the storm, discouraging con- 

 ditions presented themselves, especially along the Raritan Bay Shore, 

 where the storm did the most damage. In one instance, the mouth 

 of a stream emptying into Raritan Bay was changed over two 

 hundred feet from its former location, becoming partly filled up with 

 sand and causing the water to back up in one of the large meadows. 

 Two weeks' time was spent by laborers in relieving this condition. 



The time consumed in cleaning the ditches was much more de- 

 layed than had been estimated, and before all of the obstructions 



