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quite man who, as a farm demonstration agent does in agriculture, 

 can go from one community to another that needs this work, organize 

 the work, raise the money and put it on its feet and keep it going. 



Now that is about the way this thing has shaped up in my mind, 

 from a study of a number of years. I do not beheve we are hkely 

 to get it through any other way. 



While I am on my feet I would like to say that I admire a man 

 who can work for twenty years in one spot without encouragement, 

 without touch with other men who are doing work in a similar line, 

 and succeed in that work. And I want to congratulate Mr. Nyhen 

 for the work that he seems to have accomplished in Brookline and 

 to say that there come to my desk during the year a very considerable 

 number of inquiries from the State of Massachusetts, various points 

 in the State of Massachusetts, as to what methods can be used to 

 control mosquitoes in the localities from which these letters come. 

 And had I known — I have been lamentably ignorant of it — had I 

 known that there was a man in the State of Massachusetts who 

 was doing the successful mosquito work that Mr. Nyhen has been 

 doing I should have been referring these letters to Mr. Nyhen, to 

 give him. his opportunity. I do not know any reason why the State 

 of Massachusetts should not have an anti-mosquito organization, and 

 it seems to me from the letters I get from the State of Massachu- 

 setts that the material is there ; it is a question of organizing it that 

 will come about. 



Now regarding Mr. Nyhen's statement of being able to sit on his 

 porch for two weeks without being bitten by a mosquito, I am told 

 that Dr. Darnall, in Atlantic City, keeps no screens in his windows, 

 and that if ever a mosquito dares to enter that the whole mosquito 

 fighting organization of Atlantic County is put out around that 

 neighborhood in a defensive clean-up. Now since I know the con- 

 tinuity with which this mosquito fighting organization evidently is 

 spread over the county meadows and is kept going during the sum- 

 mer, I figure that Dr. Darnall must be able to sit on his porch and 

 sleep nights too all summer long with practically no trouble what- 

 ever. (Applause). 



President Rider : Dr. Headlee's talk on that matter comes very 

 near home to me. My next door neighbor about the time our mos- 

 quito work began in our town, in Hammonton, had screens prepared 

 for his porch. They have been put away in a storehouse and never 

 been put up. They are in there yet. They have been there now 

 for seven or eight years. We have screens on my porch but we do 



