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show you the reason that the abandoned farms and hundreds of 

 thousands of acres of undeveloped farm lands are reasonably due 

 to mosquito infestion. 



Notwithstanding all our industrial growth and all the state's at- 

 traction for the home seeker and the holiday maker, yet here before 

 us are sections, great areas, that are stagnant, and others that are 

 retrograde, and still other thousands of acres of marsh lands the 

 ultimate great worth of which for future trucking and dairying can 

 only be conjectured. 



By article 2 of the constitution of this association the mosquito 

 project is set up in this way: "The purpose of this association shall 

 be the advancement of the cause of mosquito extermination in New 

 Jersey" — to the end that the state may be recovered from the dam- 

 age inflicted upon it by its only enemy. 



So the project stands; invoking the co-Ordinating effort of all 

 enterprise — individual, family, municipal, county and State — all are 

 challenged to complete the work. And what a task unfinished 

 remains for the labor of tired hands and the eternal vigilance of 

 generations to follow up. Now how may its completion be expe- 

 dited ? 



Successful as we have been in the past, difficulties still remain to 

 forestall or dominate influences that otherwise should serve our pur- 

 pose. What we need is money. What we must have is money. The 

 public is crying for reduction of taxes. Some of our citizens put 

 it down as a fad we are engaged in. We have not succeeded in making 

 the average citizen believe in our work with this result that, while 

 we must have more money, we cannot even have a tag day or take up 

 a collection. We have no women's organizations in the affected 

 districts, nor interested women's auxiliary of this state association. 

 Hit and miss methods of publicity still continue. We must interest 

 more men of public spirit in affected districts — real estate operators, 

 and public officials, and society clubs. Then this will bring us nearer 

 to an active participating interest on the part of the public. 



Tax Boards should increase ratables, and railroads and the War 

 Department with their great engineering facilities, should be called 

 upon to loan us their assistance, also the engineering and road de- 

 partments of the counties. 



A new Naval Academy might be asked of the Federal Govern- 

 ment to be located in Little Egg Harbor and Barnegat Bay with a 

 great Federal Training Camp over on the uplands out from Barne- 

 gat to Chatsworth on the Jersey Plains. And the Commerce and 



