CARBON COUNTY. 



GEORGJE T. WELLS, Rockport: 

 Thirty dollars. 



CHESTER COUNTY. 



EDWARD NORRIS, West Chester: 



Do not raise enough to make any difference, although 

 crows seem the most annoying to the young chicks. 



SAMUEL MARSHALL, West Chester: 

 Lose some chickens from rats and a very few from crows. 



JOHN L. BALDERSTON, Kennett Square: 



I did lose seventy-five dollars' worth per year until I took 

 effective measures to protect the half-grown birds. 



HARRY WILSON, Gum Tree: 



The Sharp-shinned Hawk does the most damage. One pair 

 In nesting period will take about fifty to seventy-five chicks, 

 of two and a-half to five dollars' value. Crows, likewise, very 

 rapacious. 



JAMES B. KEECH, Tweedale: 



Eternal vigilance is the price or cost of poultry with us. 

 Foxes and hawks cause us the most loss. We lose, I believe, 

 annually twenty-five dollars' worth. 



H. H. HODGSON, New London: 



I lose anually more than fifty dollars, principally by rats; 

 they become numerous periodically; foxes are hard on turkeys. 



JOSEPH. S. WALTON, Ercildoun: 

 Twenty dollars' worth by minks. 



EDWARD T. INGRAM, West Chester: 



Formerly a few by foxes; some small ones anrl eggs by 

 ciows. 



I. FRANK CHANDLER, Toughkenamon: 

 Very few, indeed. 



FRANK L. BURNS, Berwyn: 

 Less than one dollar; generally rats. 



JOHN H. HICKS, Avondale: 

 About ten dollars' worth last year (1896) by crows. 



AUGUSTUS BROSIUS. Avondale: 

 Raise hut few: am not troubled in any way siigsfHsft-.l. 



