and printed in ditferent clinpters which appear on 

 succeeding pages. Such cases, however, although 

 quite numerous could not, with any degree of fairness, 

 be used exclusively in making up estimates. It is 

 also worthy of particular nole to bear in miud that 

 when proper care is taken to protect fowls from their 

 furred and feathered foes, the loss annually can be 

 very materially lessened. Farmers and other poultry 

 raisers '.vho make no efforts to have their poultry safely 

 housed at night time, naturally sustain losses from th." 

 attacks of nocturnal marauders, such as foxes, minks, 

 weasels, opossums, rats, the Great Horned Owl, etc. 

 These losses, frequently, could easily be avoided if 

 proper precautionary measures were adopted. Thos',' 

 who reside in sections near large woods, mountainousi 

 districts, streams and ponds often suffer very.greai 

 losses from predatory animals, unless particular pains 

 are taken to guard the fowls and exterminate the sly 

 pilferers. I have known a single pair of Cooper's 

 hawks, in the sipring when they had a nest of younj; 

 in a woods about half a mile from a friend's barnyard 

 and chicken coops, 1o destroy in one week ovei- fifty 

 young chickens. A pair of Sharp-shinned Hawks, when 

 compelled to provide food for a nest of young, havt 

 been known to visit a single farm and kill, on an 

 average, five or six young chickens daily, for :i i)ei'iod 

 of a week or ten days. 



Goshawks will also sometimes visit farm houses fo'- 

 several days in succession and kill poultry, both o'd and 

 young. Usually, however, the Goshawk, when breed 

 inf. keeps in the woods, where he finds an abundance 

 of food, an important item of which, unfortunately, i« 

 that noble game bird the Ruffed Grouse. The Duck 

 Hawk, a snnnniT i-.-sidcni, in a few localirics of tbi;. 



