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All the machinery for such work either exists or can be called into 

 play. What is needed is larger means to prosecute this work. It is 

 certainly against all reason and experience to expect one county with 

 three or four times the area of salt marsh to do as good work as the 

 county with smaller area with a larger appropriation. 



I will appeal to all counties to earnestly strive to obtain sufficient 

 funds to control their salt marsh. 



Personally I have favored a state appropriation to be expended 

 under the direction of the State Experiment Station, in counties 

 where enough appropriation is not forthcoming to meet the needs. 

 This especially when the mosquito broods are a nuisance in other 

 counties outside the breeding area. 



In closing, it is fitting to say a word about the work of the asso- 

 ciation. Formed in 191 3, its first annual meeting was held in this 

 city in 1914. It has been a very forceful factor in prosecuting the 

 work in the state. Its chief value I believe has been in giving an 

 ■opportunity for the different commissions to get together once a 

 year and compare notes and methods. Its publicity campaign has 

 served to keep up the interest of the public in the work. It is a going 

 concern, and we are proud of it. 



President Rider : I am sure we all have enjoyed this paper by 

 OUT friend Dr. Hunt. What is your pleasure concerning it? I 

 understood that it was to be received with thanks and be printed in 

 the minutes. 



I am requested to announce that the committee on nominations will 

 meet at the close of this session in the committee room adjoining. 



I now have the pleasure of introducing to you another gentleman 

 who will tell us "The Mosquito Extermination Project, How Its 

 Completion May Be Expedited," and which we will all be glad to 

 know, because we are all in the expedition of this mosquito. Mr. 

 Howell. , 



Mr. Reid Howell : Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen : I feel 

 very much tempted to comment to some extent upon the address by 

 the President and by Dr. Hunt, but owing to the hour I will confine 

 myself in a formal way to the paper that I have to read here, as in 

 the program, "The Mosquito Extermination Project, How Its Com- 

 pletion May Be Expedited." 



This is a five-fold project : 



(1) Combatting mosquito invasion. 



(2) Eliminating mosquitoes. 



(3) Finding their local breeding places. 



