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Avhile the undrained was fairly alive with larvae. Especially was 

 this true of the Mullica River meadow from Leeds Point to 

 Johnsontown. We, of course, had other broods during the 

 season, but the only real nuisance was in the northeastern part 

 of the county, and the Mullica River meadows were without 

 doubt responsible. 



The usual summer house and yard inspections were carried on 

 in the more thickly populated parts of the county, and with one 

 exception produced good results. Atlantic City experienced its 

 first year of public ash and trash collection, and our reports 

 show a very marked decrease in the number of probable breeding 

 places for the house mosquito. The figures for 1920 were 18,000 

 and in 1921 3,600. Should this good work continue it would 

 mean a reduction in the cost of fresh water work, and the money 

 saved can be spent on the salt marsh drainage. 



The Atlantic County Mosquito Extermination Commission 

 held their regular monthly meetino- last Tuesday afternoon. At 

 this meeting orders were placed for a new Ford son tractor. This 

 will be the second one purchased by this commission in two years. 

 With two such ditching units working on the Mullica River 

 meadows, the completion of the drainage in this county should 

 not be so far in the future. 



President Meyers — Are there any questions or discussion of 

 this paper? The next person we will hear from will be Dr. Lewis 

 W. Brown, member of the Bergen County Mosquito Commission. 



Dr. Lewis Brown — It has been said and often repeated that 

 "there is nothing new under the sun." If such indeed be the 

 truth, the subject assigned for the symposium to-day is a most 

 difficult one to handle, for certainly in Bergen County last year in 

 our mosquito control operations we introduced no startling inno- 

 vations or brought forth no revolutionary systems for the elimi- 

 nation of our avowed enemy. In fact, we followed pretty closely 

 the accepted orthodox methods of mosquito extermination, choos- 

 ing to emphasize certain phases -that seemed to us of relatively 

 greater importance and slighting or excluding other matters that 

 in view of our restricted resources seemed of minor value. We 

 drained, we oiled, we lectured, and as in previous years we col- 

 lected wherever possible a share of the cost from the towns in 

 which drainage work was actually done. 



But although our work as a whole was not novel, there were 

 one or two features that could perhaps be referred to as un- 

 usual in view of their magnitude if for no other reason. These 

 I will mention briefly. 



