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least decrease in the interest and support that we have had from 

 other organizations, the enthusiasm and the unselfish support of the 

 other state departments, the Department of GDnservation and De- 

 velopment, the grov^ing interest of the men connected with the 

 Departmient of Charities and Corrections, the interest of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce of New Jersey, and particularly the interest of the 

 Chamber of Commerce of Atlantic City ; and we take it for granted, 

 not only the interest, but the remarkable accomplishments of the 

 Mosquito Commissions in this state, the cooperation of other or- 

 ganizations. In other words, it lies within our attitude to recognize 

 and to give the fullest credit to what this service owes to you who 

 are members of this association, and to others who may not be 

 members, but who have already learned to know the possibilities 

 that lie in this undertaking. It is within our recognition that as 

 the state of New Jersey carried out its part of the program, local 

 initiative should surely take care of the maintenance cost, and that 

 the counties of the state, the beneficiaries, should not hesitate to 

 do their full share in providing ample maintenance. 



Now, if I may say just a word about the fourth stage, because 

 it is to me not only general, but of individual interest. And that is 

 the agricultural development which must come as the mosquitoes 

 cease to be a serious menace to the comfort and health of New 

 Jersey. I sometimes think of what our friends in Holland are 

 doing on the sand dunes. They are growing large crops on shifting 

 sand. And what has been done on the poor, sandy soils of southern 

 France and Belgium and Prussia, what the possibilities are in agri- 

 cultural development in the sandy soils, and the big advantages 

 that sandy soils have over the heavier clay soils; and the wonder- 

 ful possibilities that lie in the creating of great wealth, because 

 of the coming to this state of thrifty, industrious men, of the build- 

 ing of homes and the development of uplands, the developing of the 

 meadows themselves, and the ultimate diking of the meadows to 

 keep out the ocean; of making south Jersey truly a land of plenty 

 and a land of happiness. That is, the portion of south Jersey along 

 the coast and along the Delaware Bay. 



And so there is glory enough for all of us and gratification enough 

 for all of us to think that as we run cmr short race and do a very 

 little towards the solution of this problem, we are, after all, privi- 

 leged to play a part in this great constructive undertaking. 



