THOMAS SEABORNE. NewUn: 



Last year from minks, five per cent.; from rats, two per 

 cent.; hawks, none; foxes, none, and weasels one per cent. 



HON. EDWARD M. TEWKSBURY, Catawissa; 



Lose but little poultry. Hawks are somewhat troublesome; 

 king birds keep hawks from our premises. 



OKAWFORD COUNTY. 



MRS. J. R. HEAD, Saegerstown: 



The average poultry raiser probably loses two or three 

 dollars' worth by hawks and a few more than that by rats. 

 Do not believe that crows will take fowls; it is only imagina- 

 tion by those who say so, and that those supposed to be 

 taken by crows are taken by hawks which the crows pursue. 



HON. C. A. STRANAHAN, Spartansburg: 



From twenty to fifty dollars. In our locality the loss is 

 mostly from hawks, owls and rats. 



LUTHER GATES & SON, Beaver Centre: 



Have considerable poultry; rats do most damage; next hawks, 

 then owls; a little from weasels. Think ten dollars wo\ild 

 cover our loss. 



HON. J. B. PHELPS, Conneautville: 



Hawks and rats destroy the most poultry; rats are the 

 worst. Amount destroyed at least five dollars per year. 



SAMUEL A. MILLER, Linesville: 



Minks, one per cent.; weasels, one per cent.; hawks, thirteen 

 per cent.; owls, twelve per cent.; rats, twelve per cent. 



I. B. BIDDLE, Saegerstown: 

 From six to ten dollars' worth by hawks, owls and rats. 



W. H. SEWARD, Rundell: 

 Three dollars. 



JAMES TURNER, Meadville: 

 Five dollars' worth. 



H. J. TOWER, Beaver Center: 



I am not extensively engaged In the business and meet with 

 scarcely any loss except by rats, perhaps from two and a 

 half to five per cent. 



F. H. POTTER, Steamburg: 

 Only a small loss and that from hawks and nwls. 



F. L. LORD, Conneautville: 



Some of my neighbors have lost nltif-tenths of sinins hatches 

 from hawks and rats. 



