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surveys of this section, so that when the South Shore salt-marsh 

 work has been carried well enough along until a measure of relief 

 has been attained from the soUicitans scomgQ, we will be ready 

 inteligently to undertake the solution of this problem. 



Altogether, our problem is a big and a very interesting one 

 but seems to offer nothing impossible of solution. 



PrKsident Darnai.1, — It gives me great pleasure to call on 

 Dr. W. E. Britton, State Entomologist of Connecticut. 



Mosquito Control Work in Connecticut in 1916. 



BY W. E. BRITTON, PH.D., STATE ENTOMOI^OGIST, NEW HAVEN, 

 CONNECTICUT. 



The season of 1916 must go down in history as being, up to 

 this time, the banner year in anti-mosquito work in iConnecticut. 

 Especially is this true of salt-marsh ditching work, as about 2,900 

 acres were ditched in 19 16 as against 2,700' in 1912, which, 

 prior to the present season, was the greatest area ditched in any 

 single year. The largest single project included all of the salt 

 marshes from Biranford River eastward to Hammonasset River, 

 a distance of 15 miles in a straight line. The work was done 

 by contract and cost about $20,oooi.oO'. Thus all of the salt-marsh 

 area in the towns of Madison and Guilford, and more than half 

 of that in the town of Bran ford, making a total of about 2,66S 

 acres was ditched in 191 6. 



The approximate acreage ditched in each of these towns is 

 as follows : 



Branford, !....,..! 578 acres 



Guilford, ,. 1085 " 



Madison, 1005 " 



Total, 2,668 " 



It was expected that this work would be done early in the 

 season, in order to head off the heavy broods of sollicitans which 

 usually emerge from our salt marshes in July, and August, but 



