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Improvement Association of Fairfield and Vicinity, Fairfield. 



Village Improvem.ent Association!, Old Saybrook. 



Anti-Mosquito League, of Old Lyme, Lyme. 



Greenwich Board of Trade, Greenwich. 



South Norwalk Board of Trade, South Norwalk. 



Meriden Chamber of Commerce, Meriden. 

 * West Haven Village Improvement Association, West Haven. 



Edgewood Civic Association, New Haven. 



Then, too, we may always count upon the support of the State 

 Board of Health and of the various State, county and local 

 medical societies, various women's clubs, men's church clubs, 

 civic societies, and the local board of trade or chamber of com- 

 merce. 



I.E:GISIvA'riON. 



The ditching operations of 19 16 are the first to be carried out 

 under the new law which authorizes the Director of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station to order land ditched when money 

 has been raised for the purpose, and we have watched with con- 

 siderable interest the working out of this law. Possibly there 

 may be attempts to repeal the measure in to to, but we hardly 

 expect that they will succeed. On the other hand, the General 

 Assembly will be asked to pass two amendments strengthening 

 it. One of these provides that the law shall apply, as regards 

 the maintenance and protection of ditches, to work done prior 

 to the passage of the act, provided that the Director shall first 

 examine and approve the work. An appropriation of $25,000 

 will be asked for, with the provision that when funds have been 

 , raised locally sufficient to meet one-half the cost of a proposed 

 mosquito ehmination project as estimated by the Director, he 

 may order the work done, the remaining half to be covered from 

 the State appropriation. If this measure can be passed and 

 renewed twice by the future General Assemblies, all remaining 

 salt marshes may be ditched within a six-year period. 



The other amendment, or possibly it may take the form of a 

 separate bill, will provide that the Director shall have charge of 

 all maintenance work ; that the cost of such work is to be borne 



