I20 Proceedings of Nioth Annuae Meeting 



These dunes form at the shore line and stop the natural drain- 

 age into Barnegat Bay. A ditch was therefore cut as far as the 

 dune and a pipe flume installed underneath. The first one put 

 in was made of wood but we are now using iron pipe. A wooden 

 trap is built at the shore end of the pipe so that the debris which 

 floats down the ditch may be easily cleaned out. The pipe is 

 laid below the sand in the bay, below mean low water. The 

 end of the pipe turns up with the outlet about six inches above 

 the surface of the sand. 



Now it is not surprising that this will fill with sand but when 

 the head of water in the ditch becomes great enough the sand 

 will be forced out. 



You heard the gentleman from Monmouth County refer to 

 the trouble at Manasquan Inlet. There was a territory that was 

 supposed to be taken care of. The state, some years ago, had 

 done all the ditching that was necessary. We inspected it from 

 time to time and found nO' breeding but when the Manasquan 

 Inlet closed last year the water flooded the meadows and filled 

 pockets that nobody ever considered before. We had a pretty 

 good crop of mosquitoes from them. 



The best thing that happened was that the mosquitoes flew 

 northward into Monmouth County and some of them bit the 

 governor. If we could get more mosquitoes to bite our gov- 

 ernors at a time when they don't want to be bitten, it would 

 attract a good deal of attention to our mosquito proposition, as 

 this did. After the opening of the inlet we cleaned those ditches 

 and cut more. We will probably do more this year to protect 

 that section and put it in better order. The situation is not bad, 

 particularly at the Inlet. We will not have that thing occurring 

 again. 



A good deal has been said about ditching the upland. We 

 have another problem in Ocean County from one end to the 

 other. I don't know whether I am enough of an artist to give 

 you an idea, but the most of you know that the meadows are 

 higher at the bayside than at the upland. Then there is a low 

 place in the meadows just before it commences to rise into the 

 upland. I don't know what the geological history of that forma- 

 tion is but it is usually on the sandy bottom where four-fifths 

 of our mosquitoes are bred. 



We must drain that. Our contractors with their machines 

 prefer to cut up to a point where the plough will not cut easily 

 and then quit and let the commission handle the rest. We have 

 willingly supplemented their work because we can really do it 

 better and cheaper than they can. Ditching here is a mean 



