BUCKS COUNTY. 



HOi\. H. \\. RICE, bumbervlUe: 



About the only damage done was by blue jays eating eggs 

 of hens, and also the eggs of different kinds of wild birds. 



JAMES L. BRANSON, Langhorne: 



Our cats keep away the rats, but will dine on chickens for 

 a change. 



HON. EASTBURN REEDER. New Hope: 

 Ten dollars; rats, crows and hawks. 



JACOB CLEMENS, Doylestown: 



We raise from two to three hundred chii-kens; the loss trum 

 the above would be very low; about five per cent. 



HARRY S. WALTON. Hartsville: 



I would think at least per year, about twenty dollars; prob- 

 ably more. Hawks are the principal depredators. 



WILLIAM SMITH. Richboro; 



Not troubled with anything but rats, and not much with 

 them. A few cats will keep them scarce. 



H. W. COMFORT, Fallsington: 

 By care in shooting crows we lose but few. 



ASHER MATTISON, New Hope: 

 .About five dollars' worth. 



BUTLER COUNTY. 



EDWIN RAMSEY. Evans City: 

 Our loss does not exceed ten dollars per year. 



W. H. H. RIDDLE. Esq., Butler; 



I raise fancy poultry, but have no trouble with any of 

 the pests you mention. 



thousand annually 



i. a. GILFILLAN, Butler: 

 Damage sustained from hawks._ abn 



CAMBRIA COUNTY. 



DR. P. J. MANCHER. Carrolltown: 



Am not engaged in poultry raising, but know that the dam- 

 age and losses .■=ustain(>d by those In that business runs into 

 thousands of dniiars .=)nniialiy by reason "f hawk, mink, fox. 



