62 N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 



Now not any of this brood reached Long Beach, for it so happened 

 that the breezes during that flight were from the ocean, or southeast. 

 The greatest flight of all which got on the wing Saturday and Sun- 

 day, August 24 and 25, was liatched in the 25,000 acres surrounding 

 the mouth of the Mullica River which have not been drained. These 

 vast acres of water pockets teeming with larvae were observed by 

 our inspectors and the arrival of the flight predicted to the day. 



We then had land breezes and no breezes at all, so perhaps the 

 greatest hatch of recent years had, shall we say, a ''fly over" all 

 their own way, and were sufficient in numbers to cover a territory 

 from Little Egg Harbor Inlet to Vincentown, and as far north as 

 Bay Head and New Egypt. These remained, with some belated 

 additions for two or three weeks, and we do not wonder that many 

 who did not understand were ready to give up in despair. 



The Board of Freeholders having made the same appropriation 

 for 1919, namely, $10,000, bids for cutting from one to two hundred 

 thousand linear feet of ditches in the neighborhood of Ballinger's 

 Creek, were advertised for. As there are two distinct classes of 

 meadows in this region, one much like the average meadows and the 

 other evidently the remains of an old cedar swamp, containing roots 

 and stumps and fallen trees covered with sod, we asked for separate 

 bids for each. Two sets of bids were received. 



U. S. Drainage & Irrigation Co., No. i $.0774 



No. 2 0374 



Eaton, Brown & Simpson, No. i 0397 



No. 2 0397 



Combined No. i and No. 2.. .0257 



The contract was awarded to Eaton, Brown & Simpson. We 

 reserved the right to do part of the work ourselves if we decided 

 we could do it more satisfactorily. This was evidently the case, so 

 after cutting about 100,000 feet in the ordinary marsh the con- 

 tractor was moved to near Tuckerton Creek, where 50,000 addi- 

 tional feet were cut. 



It is impossible to drain completely this stumpy area but we 

 found that after cutting some 15,000 feet with the patent spade that 

 we so materially reduced the breeding places that the remainder can 

 be left until some future time. In addition to the amount cut by 

 our commission on meadows below Tuckerton we have cut as fol- 

 lows : 



