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We are going right ahead on this line. We expect to cut a much 

 larger number of feet of ditching in our salt marsh this coming 

 year than we did last year. We have a power ditching machine all 

 in good shape ready for business and we expect to start in as early 

 in the season as we can, first, of course, carrying on our cleaning 

 work. 



Monmouth County 



Thomas J. Headlee, New Brunswick 



I hardly think there is a representative here from, Monmouth 

 County, and if I may say a word about Monmouth I will. 



Monmouth has pursued very much the same line. It has only a 

 little over 3,000 acres of salt marsh. It has done a considerable 

 amount of additional drainage in its salt marsh. I will say for Mon- 

 mouth that its salt marsh is very well drained ; it is pretty nearly 

 complete. It runs various locally supported campaigns. Such a 

 campaign was run in Freehold for two years, last year and the year 

 before. It has run for four or five years now a locally supported 

 campaign in the Borough of Rumson, with most excellent results. 

 Mr. Van Note is very active, carries on a campaign of education 

 every year and has excellent cooperation from his people. Remem- 

 ber, Monmouth is very largely an agricultural county. The edge 

 bordering the seacoast has urban conditions, but all the rest of the 

 county is agricultural. 



The condition in Freehold, which was corrected by the campaign 

 of the two years, is worthy of your consideration. Freehold has 

 what is known as wide-open field sewage disposal; in other words, 

 the sewage is run through a great vat into various fields that have 

 been under-drained. The sewage water, soaks down through that 

 soil into buried drain pipes which are set twenty-five feet apart, and 

 those drain pipes empty into a central ditch which carries off the 

 effluent. The effluent is almost as clear as spring water. The ma- 

 terial used in making those fields for the most part was muck, with 

 the result that after they have been used several times they seem to 

 become cemented and the water cannot escape. The water remains 

 and forms a virulent mosquito-breeding place. 



Year before last the question came up for the first time since 

 mosquito work has been going on. The whole town of Freehold was 



