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those of another community. It has been shown that each com- 

 miunity has its own problems and that they miuist be worked out 

 in their own original way, for are we not all merely pioneers 

 blazing a new and untrodden country, learning and learning as 

 we go on our way? The stumpy conditions of Bergen, the 

 dikes and sluice-gate control of Hudson and Essex, the oozy 

 soft meadows of Ocean wjith its low tidal fall of a few inches 

 and the vast areas of marsh in Atlantic County and Cape May 

 County, all offer distinctive problems of their' own, while the 

 inland counties have other and difficult questions peculiar to 

 themselves. 



Enough, however, has been accomplished, enough has been 

 learned about the problems for us to be able to say with a fair 

 degree of certainty that it is possible to^ rid New Jersey of 

 mosquitoes. We have gone far enough to see the dawn of suc- 

 cess in the distance if we can but continue unhampered a few 

 years longer the systematic organized effort which has marked 

 our progress. It is true that we are being watched with interest 

 all through our own State and by other States, and our results 

 are being checked up as we go. But wherever the work has been 

 done the results have been so marked that its value is unques- 

 tioned. Yet there is so much still to be learned, there is so much 

 still to be done, that our efforts must not be relaxed one whit 

 until we stand on safe and solid ground and having proved all 

 thing's hold fast to that which is good. 



The problemi in the northern counties has resolved itself into 

 one more of local types of mosquitoes and less of salt-marsh 

 mosquitoes. The problems in South Jersey are more of marsh 

 mosquitoes and less of local varieties. The vaster areas of marsh 

 land in the south, therefore, makes its problem of slower solu- 

 tion. Nearly all the northern counties of the State have made 

 satisfactory progress in their work. Atlantic probably leads 

 the South Jersey counties, and its work is comparable to that 

 of any of the other counties of the State. Ocean, and Cape May 

 are prosecuting the work actively and aggressively, and Bur- 

 lington alone stands idle as a stumbling block to South Jersey's 

 success. It is hoped she will very soon come into the fold and 



