Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE WAR ON MOSQUITOES. the grass that affords cover. METHODS OF THE ANTI-MOSQUITO CRUSADE 257 breeding places for the mosquito. As a matter offact, the whole Isthmus, not the towns alone, fur-nishes plenty of homes for the mosquito. With arainy season lasting throughout eight months in theyear much of the soil is waterlogged. The stagnantback waters of small streams; pools left by the rains;the footprints of cows and other animals filled upwith rain water quickly breed the wrigglers thatultimately become nlosquitoes. Mr. A. H. Jennings,
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . THE WAR ON MOSQUITOES. the grass that affords cover. METHODS OF THE ANTI-MOSQUITO CRUSADE 257 breeding places for the mosquito. As a matter offact, the whole Isthmus, not the towns alone, fur-nishes plenty of homes for the mosquito. With arainy season lasting throughout eight months in theyear much of the soil is waterlogged. The stagnantback waters of small streams; pools left by the rains;the footprints of cows and other animals filled upwith rain water quickly breed the wrigglers thatultimately become nlosquitoes. Mr. A. H. Jennings,the entomologist of the Commission, has identified125 varieties of the mosquito, of which, however, theanopheles and the stegomyia are the ones peculiarlyobnoxious to man. The others are merely thecommon or summer resort variety of mosquito witha fondness for ankles and the back of ones hand,which can be observed any time on Long Island orin New Jersey without the expense of a trip toPanama. A careful study of literary authoritiesindicates to me that at this point in the descrip-tion of the mosquito plagu
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