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to do and how it is going about it, we must use all agencies and 

 methods which are available. As practically everybody reads a 

 newspaper nowadays, that is the most logical and necessary 

 medium to carry on educational work, particularly as it combines 

 direct education of the people in preventing mosquito-breeding on 

 their own property, and also spreads a favorable sentiment 

 toward the work. 



Short articles appeal to the newspapers better than long ones, 

 and are much more likely to be published. Stories of the drainage 

 work carried on, plans of the commission, inspection trips and 

 analyses of night collections, etc., as well as short articles of the 

 life history of mosquitoes and their breeding habits, are usually 

 welcomed by the newspapers. We have found much more like- 

 lihood of the stories being printed, particularly in the small com- 

 munities where reporters are scarce, if the commission can pre- 

 pare and write the story ready for publication, and not have the 

 overworked editor of the paper write the story for the commis- 

 sion. 



Another field of educational work where there has been distinct 

 improvement during the last year is in the making of a new 

 moving picture film. The one prepared under the direction of 

 the superintendents of the various mosquito extermination com- 

 missions and the entomological department of the State Experi- 

 ment Station is the best and most complete film that has been 

 produced. It is anticipated that if the commissions use this film 

 the entire state could be covered by placing it in all moving 

 picture houses, as most moving picture managers are anxious to 

 co-operate by showing a good film of this character. The movie 

 film could be combined with short lectures before civic associa- 

 tions, taxpayers' associations, etc. It has been the writer's ex- 

 perience that the personal contact established by lectures at meet- 

 ings of 75 or TOO taxpayers has been most beneficial to our work. 



The State Experiment Station, through its entomological de- 

 partment, is also co-operating in educational work by preparing 

 a state exhibit of the mosquito and its life history, which will be 

 loaned to any of the county commissions who desire it for use at 

 exhibits, agricultural fairs, health shows, etc. 



A.nother advance has been made in effective and practical 

 methods of education through the school children of the State. 

 There has been prepared during the past year a mosquito manual, 

 a twenty-page text book, which the State Commissioner of Edu- 

 cation has endorsed and recommended to be used as a text book 

 in the science and civics courses of the eighth grade grammar and 

 high schools of the state. One hundred thousand copies of the 



