Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Sees the Mosquito’s End [ARTICLE]

Sees the Mosquito’s End

New Jersey Bugologist Gives Cheering New* of Great import—U*a< Device for Oiling. Newark, N. J. —The end of the mosquito is in sight. That statement Is official It comes from the state’s bugologist and archenemy of the enemy of man, Prof. John B. Smith. And when Professor Smith says the end is in sight he does not mean the business end, but both ends and the middle and all o? the pest for the peaceful, law-abiding tgxpaying, homeloving people of New Jersey. It came out in an address by the bugologist to the Belleville board of trade, and anybody who has ever been in Belleville on a summer night can get some notion of how enthusiastically the members and their guests cheered the official news. The professor use-' lantern slides tn Illustration of bis talk. Some of the pictures showed the way ditching and draining are being done on the Kearny meadows, while others showed the Newark mosquito fighters spreading oil, particularly in sewer basins. Mr. Smith said that not until about the middle of May were the people In the section bothwed to any great extent with mosquitoes. At that time, he added, the breeding place on the Kearny meadows that had been overlooked, was discovered. Much progress was being made toward stamping out this breeding place, he stated, but mosquitoes from there got such a good start that for the last few weeks they have been causing more er loss annoyanoa. They

are capable of flying, he stated, forty miles. In speaking of the work being done by Newark under the direction of John W. Dobbins, Mr. Smith told of a device gotten up fcr the perpetual oiling of sewer catch basins. It consisted of an oil can with a long wick hanging over. The device was fastened to the top of the sewer basin. Mr. Smith commented that the device, theoretically, was a fine one, but no reckoning had been made of the fact that in some parts of Newark sewer basins were used as depositories of old and jaby' carriages. So the scheme was not altogether a success. Mr. Smith said that in certain parts of the state, through the persistent work of ditching, draining and oiling, the mosquito nuisance has been practically eliminated.