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of loss is quite low, owing to remoteness, as above noted. 

 Five per tent, will cover all loss. 



JESSE O. ALL<P:N, Uniontown: 



Raised poultry for six years. No loss Ironi minks, weasels 

 foxes, hawks or owls, as there are none in our section. Lost 

 four or five per cent, by rats. 



FOREST COUNTY. 



SAMUEL D. IRWIN, Tionesta: 



Lost none myself; have an average flock of twenty chickens 

 each year; neighbors have lost on edge of town. Foxes come 

 down from their homes in rocks and kill chickens occasionally; 

 hawks kill small chicks every season; would say that the an- 

 nual damage in Tionesta borough, at low valuation, is one 

 hundred dollars; country districts much larger, of course. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



HON. W. W. BRITTON, Upper Strasburg: 



Not worth mentioning; rats are about the only depredators 

 that annoy us. 



H. B. CRAIG, Welsh Run: 



I farm and raise some poultry, but do not make it a special 

 business. I would place my loss from above enemies at about 

 fifteen dollars. 



FULTON COUNTY. 



W. L. MORELEY, Well's Tannery: 



We lose about half of our young poultry by rats, skunks, 

 owls, minks and oats; about fifty dollars' worth annually. 



D. W. CROMER, Fort Littleton: 



Am not engaged in poultry business, but the above named 

 are very destructive to domestic fowls and game in woods. 



GEORGE LEHMAN, Lashley: 



We keep about one hundred hens; also several turkeys. 

 Our money loss last year was about seven dollars, mostly from 

 hawks. Our neighbors have sustained heavy losses. I consider 

 the hawk a most destructive bird on poultry. In winter hawks 

 will destroy whole flocks of quail. 



W. C. BAUMGARDEN, Well's Tannery: 



I lose a great deal each season; about ten to fifteen dollars' 

 worth. Hope scalp bill will pass. 



JOSEPH DARLTON, Warfordsburg: 



Last year three dollars' woith of chickens by skunks and 

 six dollars' worth of turkeys and settings of eggs by foxes. 



