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CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 



HENRY S. RUPP. Rhiremanstown: 

 Probably five dollars' worth. 



ELK COUNTY. 



W. H. JOHNSON, Benezette; 



I keep from thirty to fifty fowls. Sometimes hawks take a 

 few— one to five dollars' worth per year. 



ERIE COUNTY. 



ROBERT DILL, North East: 

 Twenty-five dollars worth from rats and hawks. 



H. F. ARNOLD, Corry: 



My loss is about five dollars from hawks per year. 



A. A. HAMMOND, Corry: 



I live on the flats of French Creek and keep one hundred 

 and fifty hens. Depredations have not been over five dollars. 

 Rats are not the worst things to fight. 



F. E. FENTON, North East: 

 Once in a while one by hawk or rat. 



H. C. HAYES, Godard: 



Greatest loss is from rats; would say about twenty-five 

 per cent. Crows do less damage than any of the animals 

 named. Crows take some eggs, but they do more good than 

 harm, and, like the skunks, destroy lots of mice and insects. 



FAYETTE COUNTY. 



LOUIS F. ARENSBERG, M. D., Heistersburg: 



We lose about half of our poultry through foxes' depreda- 

 tions, and a few by hawks. Cannot raise any turkeys on 

 account of foxes. We raise between three and four hundred 

 chickens per year. Am unable to give estimate of money loss 

 incurred annually. 



HON. GEORGE W. CAMPBELL, Normalville: 



I sustain a loss of probably twenty dollars annually. Hun- 

 dreds of dollars are lost every year in our township from these 

 animals. 



WILLIAM W. PARSHALL, Uniontown: 

 Probably about ten dollars, by either minks or weasels. 



T. J. STURGIS. Morris Cross Roads: 



This depends largely upon location, as to your remoteness 

 from creeks, rivers, mountains, etc. With me the percentage 



