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OLIVER D. SCHOCK. Hamburg: 

 Rats and cats destroy ten dollars' uiuth annually. 



A. H. ADAMS, Jacksonwald: 



I have lost as high as twenty-five dollars" worth a year 

 and as low as five dollars, or an average of fifteen dollars. 



A. M. YOTING, Womelsdorf: 

 Five dollars, through rats. 



BLAIR COUNTY. 



HON. GEORGE M. PATTERSON, Williamsburg: 



Thirty dollars; mostly by hawks. Crows take many turkey 

 oggs, and some chickens and young turkeys. 



FRED JACKEL, Hollidaysburg: 



Have never lost chickens by foxes or wildcats; a few by 

 rats, through carelessness; a few ducklings by crows; chicks 

 by hawks. 



J. W. BRACKEN, Hollidaysburg: 



I live in town and have some poultry. The f)nly Inss sus- 

 tained is from rats taking the young. 



BRADFORD COUNTY. 



A. McCABE, North Rome: 



I have ina,uired among the farmers who raise poultry, and 

 they say they lose nearly forty per cent, every year from the 

 above named animals. 



C. S. DAVIS. Allis Hollow: 



Breed high class poultry. Lost twenty dollars* worth of 

 turkeys year before last. LasJ: year about fifteen dollars by 

 foxes and hawks. 



JACOB L. BALL, Litchfield: 

 Twenty dollars on turkeys and ten dollars on chickens. 



H. CHAMPLIN. Orwell: 



T am raising some poultry each year. Several years ago 

 was troubled some with rats among the young chickens: later, 

 and the last pest, was skunks. Fnr the past four years no 

 loss from any animal depredations. 



A. E. HAMILTON, Potterville: 



Protect my poultry by wire netting^ and have no loss. 

 Those who do not use this protection occasionally lose all 

 their poultry by minks, skunks and foxes. Turkeys suffer 

 mostlv bv foxes. 



