If you want to control mosquitoes, you have to hit them where they're breeding. You have to control the larvae.

If you're going to spray (pesticides to control mosquitoes), you want the most reliable information.

Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.

Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out, And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing, Dost murmur, as thou slowly sail'st about, In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing, And tell how little our large veins would bleed, Would we but yield them to thy bitter need.

Man, they got mosquitoes 'round this place big enough to rape a chicken.

So a dog's value came from the training AND the breeding. And by breeding, Edgar supposed he meant both the bloodlines - the particular dogs in their ancestry - and all the information in the file cabinets. Because the files, with their photographs, measurements, notes, charts, cross-references, and scores, told the STORY of the dog - what a MEANT as his father put it.