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probably a favorable report would be rendered and the bill referred 

 to the Committee on Appropriations. Imagine our surprise to learn 

 five weeks later, that an unfavorable report had been made and 

 accepted in the Senate and the bill rejected. The opposition was 

 inside the committee, which apparently did not favor a change in 

 policy at this time. 



The only new work carried out during the year was the ditching 

 of sixty acres at Groton Long Point, where 28,000 feet of 8x20 inch 

 ditch was installed by Eaton, Brown & Simpson, Inc., of New York. 

 This ditching was done and a bridge over the main outlet, constructed 

 by this firm at a cost of $1,000.00, three-fourths of which was sub- 

 scribed by the members of the Groton Long Point Association. As 

 there are no other marsh areas in the near vicinity, this work should 

 bring marked relief to the locality from the mosquito pest. 



Preliminary surveys of mosquito conditions have been made in 

 a number of localities ; one at the request of Mr. J. Frederick Jack- 

 son of the State Health Department, covering Lydall's Brook in 

 Manchester. This stream is polluted by waste from paper mills and 

 other factories and the house or rain barrel mosquito was breeding 

 abundantly in it for a distance of nearly three miles. The State 

 Health Department has taken up this matter and will probably find 

 some solution of this problem. 



During the season, all work done in former years and coming 

 under the state aid plan has been properly maintained under the 

 supervision of Mr. Sealy. The total cost for the year of all new 

 work and maintenance, including supervision, amounted to $6,199.89. 



President Rider : We have yet remaining two papers on the 

 morning program, which it was thought best to put over until after 

 dinner, as our people are used to New York time and we are getting 

 hungry, and we want to get dinner on time. Of course we are an 

 hour later. But there are some matters, I understand, that we 

 want to consider briefly before adjourning. 



Mr. Robert Engle : I think everybody here has noticed the 

 fact that we have got to depend on the women for a good deal of 

 help. We always did, but we did not always recognize it. And 

 they have come to the front recently very strongly and I believe that 

 therein lives one of our greatest hopes. It we can enlist the women 

 in our campaign we certainly can get a good deal further than we 

 have gotten, and I know they are anxious to help us. 



Last Fall, I think it was, the Women's Republican Club was 



