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niuetj per cent, ol the ausweis are iu favor of bouu 

 ties, have considerable woodland and mountaiuouh 

 lerritorji or wildlaud, where the predatory animals 

 are usually much more numerous than in well settled 

 farming districts. Only two counties — Crawford and 

 Lawrence — show a majority of answers in opposition 

 to bounties. The citizens of Crawford county during 

 the active enforcement of the odious iScalp act of 1885, 

 paid in a period of about two years about $10,000, three- 

 fourths of which, it is reliably stated, was for "hawks 

 and owls." This expenditure of the county funds 

 created a strong feeling against such laws, as it is as 

 serted that much of this money was obtained for skins 

 of red squirrels and chipmunks which were called 

 "minks" and "weasels" and by divers other sharp prac- 

 tices successfully employed to fool ofScials who were 

 unable to recognize "heads" and "ears" of the genuine 

 or pseudo kinds offered by the scalp-hunters or ingenious 

 scalp-maker. As nearly all districts along the border 

 lines of the Htate were made the dumping grounds to 

 pay tribute for the victims of scalp-hunters in neigh 

 boring States, it i.s likely that on account of such 

 practices the greater portion of the negative replies 

 (75 per cent.) were sent from Lawrence county. 



THET FAVOR KILLING ALL HAWKS AND OVi^LS. 



A careful examination of the answers favoring .'i 

 bounty on birds shows, 1 regret to say, that not over 

 fifty, of fully 1,300 persons, seem to be able to distin- 

 guish the beneficial from the harmful species of hawks 

 and owls, and as a result of this want of knowledge 

 or perhaps it may have been, and no doubt was, so fai' 

 a.o some individuals wei'e concei-ncd, carelessness, an 

 overwhelming nuniher of replies say. "Ixmnty on all 

 hawks and owls." 



