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thirty miles, the reason for a large working unit is evident. If any 

 change were to be made, we all feel that the control unit should be 

 larger. For example, the Newark Bay Marsh containing 29,000 

 acres of salt marsh lies within five adjoining counties, each capable 

 of feeding a brood of mosquitoes into the other. 



It is easy to understand that if one of the counties fails in its 

 work, the beneficial effects of conscientious work in the adjoining 

 counties would be more or less nullified. Our own opinion has 

 always been that more effective work could be done were the whole 

 area in question placed under one responsible head. There are many 

 practical reasons why this has not been done up to the present time. 

 Right here comes a phase of the work which to some extent has 

 overcome the above difficulty. I refer to the part in the work taken 

 by the State Experiment Station. Throughout all these years, there 

 has been placed by the state, a certain amount of funds to be 

 expended under the direction of the State Experiment Station. This 

 has given cohesion to the work and has brought about a result which 

 could never be obtained through a county unit. Doctor Lipman, the 

 Director of the State Experiment Station, has always taken an active 

 interest in the work. He has placed the work during all these years 

 in the hands of Doctor Thomas J. Headlee, the secretary of this 

 society. His work has been always alive, always inspiring, a tire- 

 less worker with a mind well trained for the work. 



This Station, under Doctor Headlee's guidance has always 

 maintained a field force which is at the service of the county 

 commissions. To me this work of the State Experiment Station 

 has seemed to be, as it were a steadying influence of our work in 

 mosquito control. 



The educational work alone of the State Experiment Station has 

 made possible the extension of the work. It has been a function 

 among others to aid in the establishing of new county commissions. 

 It has also been possible through this work to extend work in com- 

 munities where there were not enough ratables to carry on the work. 



Perhaps the work of all the counties may be best exemplified by 

 referring to the work of the Essex County Commission with which 

 I am most familiar. 



The aim of our commission has always been extermination where 

 possible, and control where for many reasons it was not possible to 

 prevent breeding permanently. 



I shall not forget my first acquaintance with the salt marsh, it 

 seemed a terra incognita, a new sort of country, in those days, teem- 



