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e:tc. Hope the members from Cambria counti will supp-Mt tli^ 

 scalp bill. Have written them to that effect 



\. P. SANKER, Cresson: 



I raise about one hundred dollars' worth of young poultry 

 in connection with my farm. By strict account last year 1 

 lost seven dollars and sixty cents from minks and two dollars 

 and forty cents from rats and siiunks. Weasels do not 

 trouble my poultry when they can get rats and mice, and the 

 same is true of owls and crows, which I regard as my 

 friends. Foxes are plentiful, but they live on rabbits prin- 

 cipally. 



JOSEPH A. GRAY, Carrolltown: 

 An average of sixteen dollars. 



M. F. FARREN, Ebensburg: 



Loss from foxes, from twelve to fifteen dollars; from hawks, 

 fully five dollars. 



P. J. DIETRICK, Carrolltown: 



About fifteen dollars. There should be a bounty on foxes, 

 hawks, owls, etc. 



WM. FRED. PIERSON, Dysart: 



Twenty-five per cent, lost by minks; four per cent, by hawks; 

 about two per cent, in eggs, from rats and five per cent, 

 in young chickens. 



LEIGHTON ROWLAND. Vetera: 

 One or two dollars' worth. 



CENTRE COUNTY. 



MRS. LOTTIE K. KELLER, Centre Hall: 

 On an average about fifteen dollars. 



JACOB SHARER, Centre Hall: 



I live near the mountains where these depredators are 

 plentiful. I lose annually about fifteen dollars. 



MISS EDITH M. SANKEY. Potter's Mills: 



Minks, none: weasels, none, foxes, none; hawks, about two 

 dollars, owls, none; rats average five dollars; crows do us 

 more damage. 



HON. LEONARD RHONE, Centre Hall: 

 From three to five dollars, at least. 



M. L. RISHEL. Farmer's Mills: 



About four dollars; mostly from hawks. 



WILLIAM H. MILLER, Secretary Grange 109, Bellefonte: 



Have one hundred and forty-one chicks. There are a few 

 crows to contend with, and our loss is small. 



