Proceedings of Eighth Annual Meeting 



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plants into the loganberry. A lame doctor was carried up to Sing 

 Sing and developed a man from a criminal. But it remained for 

 the mosquito commission to transform a doctor into a civil engineer. 

 Therefore I am speaking for Mr. Bauer. Mr. Bauer was to have 

 read this paper, which Mr. Gies has written. I have looked it over. 

 As near as I can find out I can merely say ditto to what has already 

 been said by the different commissions; their work has been carried 

 on effectively, co-operation has been had with counties surrounding 

 them, which is important, and the only way in which particularly this 

 salt marsh problem can be controlled, Dr. Hunt has just explained. 



Contracts have been made so far as possible with the corporations, 

 more particularly that they should do the work or that we would do 

 the work for them and charge them with the cost, which has been the 

 only way in which our funds could be eked out. 



One of the important things which is brought out in this paper, 

 which I am not going to read, is the necessity of a true biology of 

 the mosquito and I think that is one of the reasons we are having 

 trouble in accomplishing complete results. 



A penny a day laid away would probably develop adequate income 

 to take care of us in our old age, provided we live as old as 

 Methusaleh; otherwise it won't. The funds that the various mos- 

 quito commissions are absorbing come in in about the same score. 

 You and I will never see the complete results or even adequate 

 results of the mosquito work under the conditions that we are per- 

 mitted or we dare to ask for. We talk about the work done in 

 Cuba and Porto Rico and along the Panama Canal as if it was what 

 we were going to do here. It is an absolute impossibility unless you 

 can get funds to do it in the way they did. Your educational propa- 

 ganda is absolutely useless until you have shown the public first. 

 Talking to it about what you are going to do is absolutely useless. 



President Rider: Middlesex County, Charles E. Hull. 



Mr. Charles E. Hull : Mr. President and gentlemen : I am one 

 of the members of those local boards, and I think your co-operation 

 has been so often bespoken, and I think I am safe in saying at this 

 time that if that co-operation is sought you will find it without a 

 doubt. All you have got to do is to go after it. 



Mr. Charles E. Hull: Mosquito control work in Middlesex 

 County is not new. As early as 1903, the late Dr. John B. Smith 

 made thorough surveys of the mosquito problem in the Raritan 

 River areas. Later on sections of the salt marsh were ditched both 

 for experimental and practical purposes, so that, when in 1914 the 



