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them, "Well if you want this thing in a more organized fashion and 

 with better authority to carry on the work you must have an active 

 county mosquito extermination commission appointed and you 

 must give to that commission the needed support and then expect 

 it to do the work for you." 



Now I see a number of instances of movements starting thar way, 

 and it seems to me likely that that is the way that other counties of 

 the state which are not now operating will be led to do, with the 

 exception of Cumberland and Salem. Now Burlington may have to 

 work out that way. Cumberland and Salem are in a different class 

 altogether. Cumberland has 50,000 acres of salt marsh ; Salem has 

 35,000 acres of salt marsh, and there is no question about the preva- 

 lence of mosquitoes from the salt marsh in those counties. You can 

 travel through the bay coast region of those counties and consult 

 anybody you care to who has lived there for a number of years and 

 he will immediately say how very, very bad the mosquitoes are. 

 The trouble that lies in Cumberland and Salem, more in Salem than 

 in Cumberland, is this : the average individual in those counties 

 does not believe that we can eliminate those mosquitoes by trenching 

 the salt marsh. He does not believe it. There is a higher percentum 

 of the population in Cumberland that believes it can be done than 

 there is in Salem ; and the reason there is a higher percentum there 

 is because of the filtering process of information as to accomplish- 

 ments coming from the lower counties on the Atlantic Coast that are 

 now working. And that is the way the thing will start in Cumber- 

 land and Salem. Cumberland will start first and then Salem will 

 follow suit. 



But those two counties are not in the class of counties we are 

 talking about. I refer to such counties as Sussex, I refer to such 

 counties as Hunterdon, I refer to such counties as Warren and 

 Mercer, such counties as Gloucester and as Camden. In those coun- 

 ties we have got to build from the ground up. We have got to 

 spend a lot of time in individual location where there is a serious 

 problem, and depend on the work there to reach outward and finally 

 assume a county- wide form. 



Now I doubt very seriously whether up in Hunterdon County 

 there will come a time when county-wide mosquito work, as we 

 tmderstand it in these northeastern counties of the state, will come to 

 be. On the other hand, I do think this is a very likely thing * that 

 it will be possible to have a mosquito commission equipped with 

 enough money to start and adequately prepare an experienced mos- 



