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sportsmen, like myself, to poison with strychnine Skunks. 

 Poxes and Wildcats, by the use of fresh meat or sparrows Im- 

 paled on a stick and placed on old roads and paths In the 

 snow. The Weasel and Mink are trapped with the ordinary 

 spring trai). 



C. W. PENNKLL, Hemlock Hollow, Wayne County: 



A Mink visited my mother's hen roost and killed nine grown 

 chickens the first night, and the second night finished the 

 flock; the third night they caught him in a steel trap. Think 

 the State should pay a bounty on Minks. 



W. B. K. JOHNSON, Allentown, Lehigh Cuunty: 



I saw a Mink take a chicken in broad daylight. 



J. B. OVIATT, Norwich, McKean County: 



Minks are very destructive to birds, fowls and game, such 

 as Partridges, Rabbits, etc. 



N. G. BUNNELL, Vosburg, Wyoming County: 



Minks are scarce, but sometimes a few follow streams from 

 the river, and are bad on poultry. 



GEORGE M. DAY, Dyberry, Wayne County: 

 We lost sixty out of eighty-five chickens the past summer 



J. S. GAY, Terrytown, Bradford County: 



1 have known a Mink to catch twenty-seven hens in two 

 nights. 



W. M. BENNINGER, Walnutport, Northampton County: 



Minks and Weasels have done great damage to our poultry; 

 they have killed hundreds of young chickens for me and my 

 neighbors, and we find them very difficult to eradicate. 



EMIL ULRICH, Stroudsburg, Monroe County: 



My wife shot a mink when he was in the act of carrying 

 away a young brahma chicken almost as big as himself, and 1 

 have missed many eggs taken by Minks; they do not destroy 

 or suck the eggs in the nest, but take them away; but when 

 It came to the nest egg made of porcelain, they found out the 



