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fronted in the first place rather by lack of means than lack of ap- 

 preciation. Timie and again it has been said here since this meet- 

 ing opened that sympathy and a sympathetic attitude on the part 

 of the state officials are not enough to give us the results, and we 

 wish we knew how we might induce the Appropriations Q)mmittee 

 or induce the people in the state to find a way to provide the funds 

 which would bring the work to a close, that is, this third stage, 

 at a reasonably early period. 



We think of it no longer as a problem in entomology; we think 

 of it as a great constructive undertaking for the State of New 

 Jersey. We think of the creating of a vast domain that will be- 

 come not only the playground of men, women and children, biit the 

 site of many homes of men, women and children. We think of the 

 million acres of land or more that are potentially good farming 

 land. We remember that other states and other territories are at- 

 tracting large numbers of settlers that bring not only thrift and 

 industry and civic pride, but also capital. For instance, Canada, 

 well appreciating the value of the experienced farmer, has held 

 out inducements to the American farmers from the northwest and 

 the middle west; and it has been said that as much as in the 

 neighborhood of $150,000,000 a year were brought into Canada 

 by experienced farmers from the western states. 



I spent two very plesant hours this afternoon with Colonel Bryant, 

 walking over his farm at Linwood, within a few miles of Atlantic 

 City ; and this land of his represents land elsewhere along the coast. 

 It is no better agriculturally, or was no better originally. He tells 

 me that last year he produced sixty barrels of potatoes per acre, 

 and last year was not a good potato year. He has produced a 

 hundred barrels of potatoes per acre. He has, by suitable methods 

 in farming, made this land very productive, as productive as some 

 of the best land in Monmouth, or other of the well known agricul- 

 tural counties of the state. 



Mr. Rider, a mlember of the Atlantic County Mosquito Exter- 

 mination Commission, is authority for the statement that within a 

 very considerable distance from Hammonton, it is practically im- 

 possible to buy land at less than $500 an acre, and a great deal of 

 that land is naturally very poor. It has been made productive by 

 intelligence and industry. And this million acres of land still under 

 scrub oak and pine is potentially as good. 



