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general uiiderstaiidiuf^ of tlii' ecouoiuiu ri-latious nf 

 birds, mammals and insects, and the impoitaut bearing 

 such facts have, so far as the farmer and poulterer are 

 concorned, but lime and space do not permit. 



CONTAINS AN AJiUNDANCE OF INSTHUCTIVK DATA. 



Part n of this volume has been prepared in a mannei 

 which, it is believed, will prove in future years, thai 

 the mone.v exi>euded for its publication has ueen well 

 spent. If this document reaches the farmers, for 

 whose especial use it has been written, and its pages 

 are carefully perused, they (or many of them) can be 

 enlightened in various directions. In addition to thi; 

 author's caicful Held observations, he has quoted freely 

 from numerous publications of the best naturalists, 

 as well as from written communications of hundreds o/' 

 intelligent and observant farmers and other persons 

 throughout this Commonwealth. 



FOOLISH AND EXPENSIVE LEGISLATION. 



Prior to the passage oii the famous and odious 

 bounty act of June 23, 1885, which provided for the 

 payment of bounties for the destriutiou of various 

 Ivinds of beneficial animals, clothed either in fui- or 

 feathers, as well as some few species of both birds 

 and mammals, which investigations of economic 

 zoologists have shown to be detrimental to the game 

 and poultry interests, hawks and owls were much Tuivn- 

 luinieious, both in the summer and winter seasons, 

 than they have been since this "Scalp act" was in force. 



A SERIOUS BLUNDER. 



The payment of nearly ninety thousand dollars in a 

 |)eriod of less than two years by our citizens foi- the 

 heads of hawks and owls was unquestionably a serious 



