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tight little State of ours, or the increase of our resources in many 

 directions ; and that until we shall be able to announce to the 

 world, not only that New Jersey has no more mosquitoes than 

 any other State, but that New Jersey has got less, shall we be 

 able to take advantage of the positive unsurpassed advantages 

 that do lie within the borders. 



All these things have been referred to in one way or another 

 during the course of the day. Let me remind you^ — I think I 

 have spoken of it before — in respect to markets and to civilized 

 population of the earth. There can be no question, then, of an 

 outlet for all that can be produced, whether they are produced 

 from the marsh lands reclaimed or from the marsh lands de- 

 veloped. Here along the coast we have, as has been pointed out, 

 an incomparable playground; and I know it for a fact that the 

 people of the interior, as many as do come here, that thousands 

 of the people of the interior are absolutely deterred from com- 

 ing here from the stories that they hear about the mosquitoes. 

 We have heard how much conditions in our suburban section 

 have been improved. We begin to suspect something of what 

 may lie behind in the way of bringing up that home territory 

 around the larger cities of New York and Philadelphia to those 

 who want to get a little further out. They, too, are concerned, 

 particularly in the northern section, about this mosquito problem. 



I therefore feel like saying that while these other things are 

 important I do not feel that they press quite as this one, of being 

 sure that we will clear the channel — I am a forester, you know, 

 and in the woods, in the North Woods at least, it is the practice 

 to take the timber out by dragging through to the streams in the 

 spring. Now, to facilitate that, it is the usual rule to clear the 

 streams of obstructions, so that when the water comes down with 

 the melting of the snow the thing all goes out with a rush. I 

 would like to apply that somewhat to this. I feel a little bit as 

 if the time was hardly here to develop more farm land, for we 

 know that immediately behind the marshes lie almost a million 

 acres of undeveloped upland which, for a generation at least, 

 has got but a fraction of the sales value that any reclaimed land 

 must bear. But let that all go. The part of the Department of 



