D. K1STL.EK, Klsller: 



My loss Is trifling. We k 

 nig-ht, but the average loss 

 live or ten dollars each. 



MILTON ESHELMAN, Newport: 



None. We are close to town. 

 H. M. ALEXANDER, New Bloomfleld: 



Our loss Is chiefly I'rom rats and cats; dont raise many; 

 lose twenty-five or thirty chickens in a year fioni visits of rats, 

 oats and hawks. 



PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. 



HON. S.\MUEL CHOTHERS. 1407 Filbert street. I'hiiailelphia: 

 Wlu-n I WHS a boy my trust was to watch the p..uitiy. '1 in- 

 Red -tailed Hawk used to carry away a good many younB 

 turkeys, etc. The crow also took some. 



PIKE COUNTY. 



NELSON DEWITT, Rowland; 



Wildcats and raccoons are the worst enemies of the feathered 

 tribe. My loss in money from them can easily be estimated on 

 an average a., ten dollars per year; some years it runsashlghas 

 twenty dollars, Wnidcats also kill young deer, and around 

 swamps are very destructive of rabbits and pheasants. My 

 (ipinlon on fox<>s destroying pheasants would be (taking into 

 consideration eggs and young which they destroy), fifty pheas- 

 ants per year, for each fox. 



HON, LAFAYP.TTE ROWLAND, Rowland: 



AH the abov? are deslrucllve; wildcats and raccoons are also 

 noxious and should be exterminated (even If we admit that 

 Noah had them along In his ride). When the female fox has 

 her young she not only preys on domestic poultry, but eats 

 eggs; also young and old birds. Foxes destroy thou.sands of 

 pheasants here annually. My money loss in poultry annually 

 is fully five dollars. 



.TtTSTIN NILES, Edgemere: 



1 had in the woods of my vicinity a pheasant's nest and was 

 waiting for a bantam hen to be ready to take the eggs. 

 When I sent yesterday for the eggs there was nothing left 

 of the nest but a bunch of feathers. .\ fox had made a meal 

 of the whole. 



POTTER COUNTY. 



SAMrin, H.WKX OL.VSSMIRK. 



Skunks are my worst enemies. 



Invasions to the eMent of about t 



