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homes that we can keep the gang together and get our work done 

 very efficiently and very cheaply. 



We have carried out our inspection, covered the meadows about 

 once a week or ten days by the superintendent and his assistants, 

 and our conditions there are such that it lends itself to pretty rapid 

 inspection. 



We have not tackled the fresh water problem at all. We haven't 

 any very large cities, very much congested centers of population 

 down there, the larger cities being Lakewood, Toms River, Point 

 Pleasant, and New Egypt away up at the upper end of the county, 

 where they are not troubled much by our salt marsh variety and do 

 not complain much in the way of fresh water mosquitoes. 



We added last year to our total number of ditches 367,839 feet. 

 The bulk of this was done by contract at a cost of 2.2 cents per foot. 

 A great many thousand feet were added by our own commission 

 in work. 



We have been very lucky in our ditches in their condition as 

 to the cleaning. We have been able to clean the ditches at a very 

 low rate. At the same time we are up against the problem of future 

 cleaning, and we are hoping, as all the rest of you are, and we are 

 looking forward with a great deal of hope to the development of 

 this ditch cleaning machine, so as our ditches require it we can hope 

 to clean them and take care of them at a still lower rate. 



We will continue to take care of our marshes as the main part of 

 our program, feeling that until that is done we cannot hope to stop 

 our peak migration. Only three times last year those big crops came 

 off of the undrained meadows. Fortunately last year when those 

 crops came off we were favored with southeast winds, sea breezes, 

 which kept those flights from the beaches. So that the inhabitants 

 of the beaches, if they think back over the summer, will realize 

 that they had wonderful reHef, something that could never have 

 happened before without all this work being done. 



Our vast territory of trouble is down around the Mullica River. 

 We should have had a large map here showing the black areas. 

 The Atlantic County map in their agricultural report shows very 

 much the situation around the Great Egg Harbor River, and we are 

 all struggling with the ground to the westward of us, that is, from 

 which the prevailing winds occur. As far as Ocean County is con- 

 cerned we have cut out a great deal of that Mullica River marsh. 

 Atlantic County, as I have told you every year we have talked 

 here, is only interested in their particular problem to the south- 



