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benefit? The southern counties are straining themselves to raise 

 the money that they beheve to be wisely expended in the mosquito 

 campaign. The northern counties are doing at least their full share. 



And the disproportion is emphasized, not lessened, if a distinction 

 is made between salt-marsh and fresh-water work. Each county 

 properly stresses the work that to it is most important. 



This is, perhaps, a good place to stop, yet I cannot forbear a word 

 more. The state government believes in the effort to rid Jersey 

 of the mosquito incubus to the extent of providing competent over- 

 sight and a few thousand dollars for contract work. Eleven coun- 

 ties are carrying a burden, in some cases heavy, which is not en- 

 tirely their own, for frequently a large part of the benefit accrues 

 to neighboring counties ; other counties hold off and their neighbors 

 suffer. One part of the people of New Jersey are working out this 

 problem in a way that unquestionably will bring relief to their 

 sections — sometime. Is it beyond our power to set up an agency 

 competent to coordinate the work of our independent local com- 

 missions, to bridge the gaps, and above all to speed up the work, 

 finish the job within five years and let the world know that our cities, 

 our home towns, our resorts, our farms are free of the old-time 

 pest, that for practical purposes the Jersey mosquito is extinct? 



President Hudson : Has any one anything to bring before us 

 now? 



Secretary Headlee: I have a letter, Mr. Chairman, from 

 Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey City, expressing his regret at not 

 being able to be here. 



Jersey City, N. J., January 29, 1920. 

 The New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association, Atlantic City, N. J. 



Gentlemen : Much as I would have liked to attend your convention, be- 

 cause of the press of official business I find it impossible to do so, but I must 

 convey to you my appreciation of the great work that is being done by your 

 association throughout the state of New Jersey, and particularly in the vicin- 

 ity of Jersey City. The results achieved through the activity of the local com- 

 mission here can hardly be overestimated, not only as to the comfort and 

 health of our people, but from an economic standpoint. Along the shore of 

 the Hackensack River, in the western section of our city, where myriads of 

 these pests bred and multiplied, making themselves a real nuisance and a 

 menace to the health of everyone who lived or worked within a radius of 

 miles, the mosquito has been practically eliminated. Manufacturers have been 

 encouraged by the new conditions to locate on our meadow land, and are now 

 able to work day and night, something unheard of previous to the operations 



