IC. O. AUSTIN, Austin: 



Occasionally had chickens v 

 Probably two dollars annually. 



CHARLES FRAUB, Germania: 

 Our community is troubled n 

 The money loss I cannot tell. 



SOHUYLKII.L COUNTY 



A. I". KIMMJCI., (MwiRsbuiK-; 



l.osc iinnually fifty dollars. 

 W. H. STOt.'T, Pine Grove: 



Had a few ducks deslro>ed hy minks. :\ 

 111 destroy the minks. 



SNY1)E]{ COITNTY. 



HKNRY NOYKS, Salem: 



SOMERSET COUNTY 



ItRMIAH S. MIL,I..Kn. Husband: 



PKTKR MILLER, Somerset; 



Keep less than a hundred fowls: lose p 

 cent, of the raislngr by minks and hawks. 



]-)R. H. D. MOORE. New Lexington: 



I i-aise poultry on a small scale. 1 have never lost any 

 poultry except by skunks, and none by them for several years 

 past. I guard against them by raising the coops over a foot 

 from the ground. 



SULLIVAN COUNTY. 



A letter dated April S, isi!l7. w n r- - -v, ,| from Mr. M. J. 

 Phillips. Muncy Valley, Sullivan , ; ,: |-, ii, .sa.vs: "I hope 

 you will be able to help Hon. H. w i , ■ i., ^et a bill put- 

 ting a bounty on hawks, as th. ,\ snuctive to our 



young poultry. They will dive riKhi .Iwuii in tin- yard and take 

 our chickens, turkeys and ducks. Weasels and foxes do the 

 same, and they destroy the young of nuaii. and the pheasant 

 and other birds and their eggs. We would have plenty of quail 

 and pheasants around our fields and woods if these depredators 

 were Hxterm:ii:iled. I think the bounty should be fifty cents 

 each on hawks, weasels and owls, and foxes, one dollar: then 

 |r)ts of people would hunt them. 



There is a bounty now on foxes, and there are some men who 



