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TABLE I 



Status of Salt-Marsh Drainage in New Jersey, October 31, 1919 



Drained or not in 

 Total area need of draining Undrained 



County Acres per cent per cent 



Hudson 11,468 64 36 



Bergen 8,378 70 30 



Essex 4,631 100 



Union 4,4i3 93 7 



Middlesex 8,199 56 44 



Monmouth 3,378 97 3 



Ocean 40,400 71 29 



Atlantic 53,325 65 35 



Cape May 53,638 39 61 



Cumberland 52,661 4 96 



TABLE 2 



Salt-Marsh Ditching in New Jersey for the Year Ending October 31, 1919 



County Commission Experiment Station 



Ditching Ditching 



Number Number Number Number 



of feet of feet of feet of feet 



County cut cleaned cut cleaned 



Hudson 145,488 22,Z2,S 



Bergen 58,000 150,674 



Essex 39,923 366,295 



Union 8,000 350,000 



Middlesex *97,873 897,127 



Monmouth 22,^76 600,000 



Ocean 336,946 10,000 90,074 



Atlantic 3ii,33i 5,005,003 



Cape May 116,980 400,000 140,000 



Totals 1,137,117 8,601,434 230,074 



Total Experiment Station Ditching 230,074 feet 



Total County Commission Ditching 1,137,117 feet 



Total Ditching 1,367,191 feet 



*69,700 feet of this total were cut by private corporations at their own ex- 

 pense on the advise of the Middlesex County Commission. 



