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pii-jiulii-o aud wiilcspioaii ij;uoiauce tluouglioui 

 Pennsylvania, a few years ago, prompted the lawuiak 

 eis to pass a uioasviie wLiib allowed bounties to be 

 paid foi- all kinds of Hawks and Owls as well as some 

 other aniuials. These birds, with few exet»ptious, 

 and some of the mammals, also, which were included 

 in the bounty law, lived almost wholly on Meadow 

 -Mice. These birds of prey aud their co-partners, or 

 the uiict^destroyingniannnals, had voracious appetites, 

 and beinsj numerous in aiiricultuval districts, ihey read 

 ily kept the Mice in check. 



The stimulus which Snalp Acts gsTve hunters to 

 slay, seemingly without any consideration, nearly all 

 kinds of wild biitis and luaiunials they found, re 

 suited in the killina; of many thonsjinds of animals 

 whose dietary consisted almost entirely of destructive 

 Mice. Hawks and Owls, which are foremost amous; 

 Nature's natural agencies to aid man in combating 

 the voles or Meadow Mice, are not pMific like manv 

 others of the feathered kind. 



The cruel warfare so relentlessly waged for many 

 years, with Legislative aid, against these faithful 

 guardians o( the farmer's crops, is now being most 

 dearly paid for by the loss annually of thousands ot 

 dollars through ravages of the rapidly increasing 

 army of well fed. sleek .Meadow or Field Mice. 



One hundred and fifty kinds of fishes, it is said, are 

 found in the waters (Lake Erie includedl of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Many of these are highly valuable for food. 



The Susquehanna river al different points, fur- 



