and printed in ditteient cliapters which appear on 

 succeeding i)ages. Such cases, however, allhougli 

 quite numerous could not, with any degree of fairness, 

 be used exelusivelv iu makiiij* up estimates. It is 

 also worthy of particular iioic to bear in mind thai 

 when proper care is taken to protect fowls from their 

 furred and feathered foes, the loss annually can be 

 very materially lessened. F'armers and other poultry 

 raisers \y]io make no efforts to have their poultry safely 

 housed at night time, naturally sustain losses from the 

 attacks of nocturnal marauders, such as foxes, minks, 

 weasels, opossums, rats, 1he Great Horned Owl, ete. 

 These losses, frequently, could easily be avoided if 

 proper precautionary measures were adopted. Thos.- 

 who reside in sections near large woods, mountaiuou.^ 

 districts, streams and ponds often suffer very great 

 losses from predatory animals, unless particular pains 

 are taken to guard the fowls and exterminate the sly 

 pilferers. I have known a single pair of Cooper's 

 hawks, in the spring when they had a nest of younji 

 in a woods about half a mile from a friend's barnyard 

 and chicken coojjs. to destroy in one week over fifty 

 young chickens. A pair of Sharp-shinned Hawks, when 

 compelled to provide food for a nest of young, have 

 been knoAsn to visit a single farm and kill, on an 

 average, five or six young chickens daily, foi- a period 

 of a week or ten days. 



Goshawks will also sometimes visit farm houses fo»' 

 several days in succession and kill poultry, both old and 

 young. Usually, however, the Goshawk, when breed 

 insr, keeijis in the woods, w^liere he finds an abundance 

 of food, an important item of which, unfortunately. \* 

 that noble game bird the Ruffed Grouse. The Duck 

 Hawk, a suninicr i-esidfut, in a few l<»caliti<'s of this 



