Show Th Time Tho War Var ur on the thc Mosquito In no state has there been such a 3 perI persistent persistent per per- I tent and amI intelligent war Wil waged on on the mosquito as in Now New Jersey The demonstration demon demon- of or the fact tact that thal th lit mosquito straton plaque exists on only I when there thero is still sUJ shallow halow water wlter explained at once one N New w Jerseys Ji fruitfulness In mosquito breedIng breeding breedIng breed- breed Ing and pointed out the tue remedy for fot the mosquito evil The marsh marh Is I the wholesale hatch hatchery of or mosquitoes and New Jersey abounds In mar marshes hc The lon long flat fat meadows archard arc are hard ilard to drain Gathering the water into ditches diches would do no good but the Hackensack meadows which have been furnishing Newark Elizabeth Elzabeth In ann and Jersey CI City with wih mosquitoes since time timeout timeout yielding Its usual usual us us- out of ot mind is not now ual supply The meadows have been ditched with long deep machine machine dug ditches bitcheS ditches Many Ian miles mies of ot these ditches diches have hat been leen dug making a 0 network all allover allover al over o er the meadows draining tho the surface and emptying all al the ponds The ditches diche connect with wih the tidal waters of the bay and are nr flushed twice a day day- Tho The water in the ditches Is Is therefore not stagnant and the mosquitoes whose larvae thrive only In still water find lind Ind no breeding breding place Staten Island has many charms as IS a place of ot residence which wore were offset b by bythe bytho the tho plague plaS of or mosquitoes and tho the malaria which one variety of mosquitoes made a n Permanent summer condition of ot life on Staten Island This wo we 0 are arc Ire told toM has been changed by the extirpation of or mos- mos quito breeding breeding quio-breeding places on Staten Slaten Island The mosquito and the malaria malaria havo have departed departed de de- de- de parted together together- In and around New Orleans Or Or- leans where mosquitoes arc are the host of or yellow fever te the tho light fight against those In Insects Insects In- In continues with unrelenting vigilance vigilance sects wih vii vii- lance au all al the tho year car round It I Is a big big job to keep mosquitoes from finding shallow water In Itt a n flat fat low Jow country subject to frequent rains and to overflow but eternal eternal eter eter- nal sal vigilance lg is the price of health and 1 life and through vigilance yellow elow fever and malaria can cnn be abolished here everywhere |