N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 97 



I had a sign built twenty-two feet long and four feet high, and 

 had ''Nassau County Mosquito Extermination Commission," 

 with a black background, in yellow letters, and you can stand 

 2,000 feet away and read it. What is the result ? That office has 

 become a school of education. There is hardly a day during the 

 summer time that there are not people walking in and wanting to 

 know how we get rid of mosquitoes in Nassau County. I did 

 more than that. This past year of 1921 we have had two motor 

 boats built for salt marsh maintenance work. I named one 

 ''Sollicitans" and the other ''Cantator." Now, that is cheap pub- 

 licity, gentlemen. These boats are constantly upon the waters of 

 Nassau County, carrying the men who do the maintenance work, 

 and the people who travel up and down the bays see these boats 

 with such peculiar names and they ask, ''Who owns the boats?" 

 And they soon find out from somebody that it is the Nassau 

 County Mosquito Extermination Commission working on the job 

 on the marsh land. That doesn't cost anything — just the boats 

 advertising the names of the mosquitoes and the commission 

 which is exterminating them. 



I just thought of that while listening to Mr. Gies this after- 

 noon and thought how cheap we could get publicity, and there is 

 no doubt we can. 



The Nassau County Mosquito Extermination Commission is 

 composed of the following members : Hiram R. Smith, Free- 

 port, President; Daniel Morrison, Freeport, Treasurer; Abraham 

 Adelberg, Cedarhurst; Dr. Arthur D. Jaques, Lynbrook; Dr. 

 Frederick L. Keays, Great Neck, and Irving Cox, Mill Neck. 



The work of the commission is carried on under the general 

 headings Salt Marsh, South Shore Upland, North Shore Upland 

 and Winter Operations. The report will be made accordingly. 



SAI^T MARSH. 



The salt marsh maintenance and patrol work began on April 

 1 8th, with a crew of four foremen-inspectors and nineteen 

 laborers, under the supervision of a district inspector. Due to the 

 increase in the ditched areas, it was necessary to divide the district 

 into five sections, instead of four, as in previous years. The 

 entire district, from Inwood to Seaford, was covered six times 

 at a cost of $13,360.34. In connection with the maintenance and 

 patrol, 11,778 feet of main and 27,179 feet of spur ditches were 

 installed in areas where heavy breeding existed. As salt marsh 

 mosquitoes are rarely ever found in the upland district adjoining 



7 MOS 



