sucks all ihe eggs he can find. If a hen or turkey steals its 

 nest ill the field and sets there lie is pretty sure to get the eggs. 

 He serves the Quails and Pheasants the same way. 



LEHIGH COUNTY. 



W. B. K. .lOHXSUX, Allentown: 



Skunks. In a poultry yard I should not want them; they love 

 eggs too well and have often come from the woods to steal 

 eggs in our tarns during winter and were caught entering a 

 square hole for cats to enter; after feasting on eggs were not 

 able to repass and were caught. 



LUZERNE (X)UNTV. 



JOHN E STOCK ER, Ashley: 



Skunks are injurious and dangerous. I know of a family by 

 the name of Bergers, who lived along what is known as thv 

 middle road between Ashley and Buttonwood, about a mile from 

 here, who had a very nice flock of ducks and chickens. There 

 is a running stream about a stone's throw from the house, and 

 on the side of a small hill they had built a coo;) to house their 

 flock; it was not long before Mr. Berger noticed the number 

 of his flock going down; his idea was that they were stolen. 

 One night he had occasion to go out on a bi'ight moonlight 

 night; he noticed what he thought were two dogs playing in 

 the road; he moved a little closer and soon found they were 

 Skunks; he was attacked by them and it was all he could do to 

 get away. Had It been a child instead of a man, the result 

 would have been the child would have been killed or nearly so. 

 Mr. Berger's suspicion was aroused and he made a hunt around 

 his premises; the nest containing five young was found under 

 the pen; of course they were all killed, as was one adult. 



M. B. TRESCOTT, Harvey ville; 



The Skunk is injurious. It is a great destroyer of eggs, rob- 

 bing hens' nests, particularly those "setting." and destroying 

 whole broods of young chickens in a night and sometimes 

 killing an old one. I have known a number of instances where 

 they have got into out kitchens and cellars, and spoiled by their 

 "scent," nearly everything stored there. I do not know of any 

 good they do. 



