114 N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 



• Secretary Headlee : No other business in the hands of the 

 Secretary. 



President Engle: No other resolutions? No other subject to 

 come before this session under the head of new business? 



Mr. Alfred Gaskill: Do you want a report from the Reso- 

 lution Committee at this time, or at the end of the meeting? 



President Engle: Yes, I think so, if you are ready. 



Mr. Gaskill : The Committee on Resolutions has been somewhat 

 averse to submitting these recommendations in the ordinary cut and 

 dried form. It ventures to ask for the adoption and publication 

 of the following statement: 



The New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association, at its 

 6th Annual Convention, held in Atlantic City, February 6 and 7, 

 1919, submits the following to the people of the State, and to 

 their representatives in the present Legislature. 



1. That upon the authority of the most competent experts, whose 

 experience lies principally outside our territory, the mosquito pest, 

 which has made the State a by-word, retarded its development, 

 and greatly lessened the value of its ratables, is practically con- 

 trolable at a reasonable cost. 



2. That the work already done within the State under the 

 direction of eleven county agencies, and of the State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, fully justifies its more rapid prosecution to 

 the end that the benefits to its people may be enjoyed more widely. 



3. That the advantage and interest of the people of this State 

 in effective miosquito control, require that the State itself bear 

 a larger proportion of the cost than it now does. Twelve counties 

 now appropriate a total of upwards of $200,000 a year; the State 

 appropriates only $15,000. 



4. That the recommendation that State prisoners and reforma- 

 tory inmates be employed to clean up the whole salt marsh area 

 is practical, wise and expedient from every standpoint. 



5. That we urge the appropriation by the Legislature of the 

 sum of $100,000, asked for jointly by the Department of Con- 

 servation and Development, the Department of Charities and Cor- 

 rections, and the Agricultural Experiment Station, to extend and 

 speed up the effort to rid New Jersey of the far-flying salt marsh 

 mosquitoes. 



