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available in Middlesex and in Monmouth Counties, for I think they 

 are working the matter out on a different plan, that is all, and that it 

 will come to pass and I believe eventually the demand will grow to a 

 point that the county mosquito work in those counties will become 

 absolutely county wide. 



You have to cut your sail according to your cloth, and that is 

 what these two counties are doing. They found difficulty in getting 

 large appropriations, because, as I said a moment ago, the bulk of 

 the controlling factor is in the back portions of the county where the 

 salt marsh mosquito is not so serious a pest, and in some cases does 

 not even reach. 



Now in Hudson and in Bergen and in Essex the salt marsh mos- 

 quito reaches all over and the attitude, consequently, is very differ- 

 -ent. Not only that, the attitude of the city dwellers is entirely dif- 

 ferent from the attitude of the country men. The country man does 

 not look upon the mosquito as so serious a matter as the city dweller. 

 The city dweller is used to having his comfort looked after to a much 

 greater extent and much more efficiently than the country man, and 

 consequently the country man does not readily take up and support 

 Siosquito campaigns, where the city dweller, on the other hand, will 

 -do so. 



I do not think that we want to be discouraged by reason of the 

 fact that we have small appropriations in some of these counties. 

 With small appropriations we can accomplish wonders and we can 

 at the same time pursue an educative campaign that will finally 

 bring the countywide work in. I am really very much pleased with 

 the progress that has been made. 



Now the story in New Brunswick is a long one. I have had a 

 lot of contact with the city commission and I remember one time 

 preparing a plan of $1,500 for the City of New Brunswick. The 

 commission appropriated $1,000 and we told them it could not be 

 'done for that and that we would not undertake it on that basis. 

 We felt quite sure that as the mosquito work progressed on the 

 salt marshes and the New Brunswick people continued to be both- 

 ered with mosquitoes, we would have to answer the inquiries as to 

 why we did not control the mosquitoes by saying that we were con- 

 trolling the salt marsh mosquito and that the New Brunswick people 

 were to put up money into the local campaign. 



The Health Officer of New Brunswick said not over two months 

 ago, "We will spend any sum of money that may be necessary to 

 control our local breeding this year." Now that is the case. And 



