Part 37 (2/2)

This all happened three years ago, and now not a child in the twelve miles but can tell you all aboutthem The Mosquito Man is appreciated now, and the community understands what he has done for the--for the contractaith the salt-water mosquitoes There were still the fresh-water mosquitoes, and there was still much work for some one to do That so the three years, he has made it his business to drain every inland marsh within his territory, to turn over every tub whichout of every old boat which is breeding mosquitoes, and to convince every ancestor-encumbered autocrat that his inherited woods can breed arian irant down the road The Mosquito Man has an assistant, paid by the towns of Darien and Norwalk--and together they traverse the country

”It was difficult finding a o into mud to the waist when need was,” said the Mosquito Man, ”but I finally found a good man with the proper scorn of public opinion on the clothes question, and with a properly trained ho cleaned without scolding”

You can find traces of the two o in the woods of Darien or Norwalk In a ferned dell where you are quite sure that yours is the first human presence, you come upon a ditch, as clean and srass in a place which you reh to co with their pick and spade--for all suht hours a day at his self-appointed task

You ht even find him in New York some off-day--and you will know hi some rebellious apartment-house owner that the tank on his roof is unscreened For they do say that he carries his activities into any part of the world where he may chance to be; they do say that, when he was in Italy not so very long ago, he went out to investigate the ht before

”Now you ht there was no salad for dinner, for the innkeeper had obeyed the order to the best of his ability He had poured all of his best olive oil on the mosquito marsh

_(Country Gentleman)_

Five half-tone illustrations, with the following captions: 1 ”A Traction Ditcher at Work Digging Trench for Tile”

2 ”Ditch Dug With Dyna House and Cold Storage at Ransoer of the Niagara County Far to the Speakers”

A COUNTY SERVICE STATION

WHERE NEW YORK FARMERS GET HELP IN THEIR FRUIT GROWING AND MARKETING PROBLEMS

BY D H WILLIAMS

You've got to look into the family closet of a county and study its skeletons before you can decide whether that county's farot to knohether it standardizes production and , or just markets by asexaears of a county's econoara County, New York, stands in a distinct class by itself

Here is an area of 558 squareits northern line A network of electric and steahways h which the industrial life-blood of the county circulates

Forty-eight hours to Chicago's markets, the saricultural cities within the county itself--Lockport, Niagara Falls and North Tonawanda--operating with a wealth of cheap electric power generated at Niagara Falls--these are soes within and without the county, the value of which is self-evident

Beginning with the southern plain section, Niagara's agriculture changes in type frorowing industry as the northern plain section is approached, until within the zone of Lake Ontario's te influence the fruit industry al

There is hardly a more favored fruit section in the country than the northern half of Niagara County Apples, pears, peaches, plurapes, cherries, quinces ue The latest available figures rank Niagara County first a the counties of New York in the number of fruit trees; second in the total number of bushels of fruit produced; first in the quantity of peaches, pears, plums and prunes, quinces and cherries; third in the nus about the county which no statistics will ever show, such things, for instance, as the condition of the orchards, thecapacity of the land as a whole--in other words, the bedrock rating of the county You have to get at these things by a different avenue of approach

A rather close auditing during 1914 of the accounts of soood farht out the fact that labor incomes from these fare One diagnosis ator is recorded in these words:

”Though Niagara County has many of the best fruit farms in New York State, there are nues of insects and disease There is also a tendency toward extensive rather than intensive fruit growing, which has resulted in ara County does not needof the present orchards; it does not need to produceof the present production”