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hb ot great popular appeal, hundreds of letters and teleprans: commending 
the work having been received. As further e evidence of the popular in- 
terest in the project, at least 18 out of the 3e States have arranged 
to continue the work as State or local projects; furthermore, numerous 
requests were received from all parts of the country for an extension 
the work to other areas. . The principal line of: attack consisted 
of draining: svanm and marsh lands, or so ditching the na rshes as to 
allow free eb> and flow of the tide, the con struction of dikes, the 
filling of dumps end unsightly ponds where mosquitoes breed, and.the. 
Clearing and straightening of stream banks. The work accomplished may 
be briefly summarized as follows; 1,864 miles of ditches -wes dug; 
about 400 miles of stream banks was figaceds deepened and straif ehtened $ 
“45,420 feet of dikes was> thrown up; 7,542 feet of culvert was in- 
Stalled ani about. half as much more was repaired or reset; in filling, 
Credging, and excavating nearly 400,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock 
was toved: in order to,chanze the character of mosquito—breeding 
places and to make areas accessible for ditching, oiling, etc., 7,600 
acres of brush was aah about 4,000 feet: of tile Jrains was in- 
stalled; approximately 2,805,250 man-hours was used in this drive at 
& total cost of about "92,720,980. 5 
I, H, Stage reports that upon the termination of the Federal pest - 
mosquito control project ihn Washingt on State on February 15, a dele- 
gation from three ‘counties, namely, Kitsap, Clark, and.Skamania, peti- 
tioned the C WA administrator for the continuation of the work in 
those countiés; 200 men were allotted to Kitson County, 100 to Clark, 
anc. 100 to Skamania. The State administrator decided to continue this 
as a State project with the ‘provisioa that it be directed by the Bu- 
reau of Oath NGS A SCeAg ire 
The experimental tick control work, whichihad hbeén-underway in 
Maryland, Delavare, Virginia, aad the District: bf Columbia, Twas en- 
tirely closed out. 
New insectary completed,--At the Uvalde, Tex., field laboratory 
anew type of insectary has beén constructed under an allotment of 
funds from the Public Works Administration, .The.bottom floor of the 
insectary is sunk 4 feet into the ground. Goncerning this D. °C. Par- 
man writes: "The new cellar in seine be with workroom and. store room 
above and shed garage attached, has been completed and tested to some 
extent, and it is: indicated that phe! cellar will keep quite a constant 
temperature and that it is well acanted for breeding insects that 
normally inhabit the upper layers of soil. The cellar is painted white 
and with the celoglass windows a rather diffused lighting is obtained 
ani insects with strong tendencies to collect at the brightest. .tiights 
use the entire room and act more normally than in solid-top, s¢ereened~ 
