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BUCKS COUNTY. 



HON. H. W. RK'E. Lumberville: 



About the only damage done was by blue jays eating eggs 

 of hens, and also the eggs of different kinds of wild birds. 



JAMES L. BRANSON, Langhorne: 



Our cats keep away the rats, but will dine on chickens for 

 a change. 



HON. EASTBURN REEDER, New Hope: 

 Ten dollars; rats, crows and hawks. 



JACOB CLEMENS, Doylestown: 



We raise from two to three hundred chicTiens; the Imss Cruni 

 the above would be very low; about five per cent. 



HARRY S. WALTON, Harts ville: 



I would think at least per year, about twenty dollars; prob- 

 ably more. Hawks are the principal depredators. 



WILLIAM SMITH, Richboro: 



Not troubled with anything but rats, and not ninth with 

 them. A few cats will keep them scarce. 



H. \V. COMFORT, Fallsington: 

 By care in shooting crows we lose but few. 



ASHER MATTISON, New Hope: 

 About five dollars' worth. 



BUTLER COUNTY. 



EDWIN RAMSEY. Evans City: 

 Our loss does not exceed ten dollars per year. 



W. H. H. RIDDLE. Esq., Butler: 



I raise fancy poultry, but have no trouble with anj- of 

 the pests you mention. 



J. H. FAUBEL. Butler: 

 About fiftj^ dollars. I raise several thousand annually. 



R. a. GILFILLAN, Butler: 

 Damage sustained from hawks, abuut two dollars. 



ISAAC H. CHRISTIE. Hooker: 

 .About five dollars. 



CAMBRIA COUNTY. 



DR. P. J. MANCHER. Carrolltown: 



Am not engaged in poultry raising, but know that the dam- 

 age and losses sustained by those in that business runs into 

 thousands of dollars annually by reason "f hawk, mink, fox. 



