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PETER MOSTON. Pleasant Ridge: 



Some in the vicinity lose considerable by hawks and foxes. 

 My loss is small; will not exceed one dollar and a half. 



GREENE COUNTY. 



B. F. HERRINGTON, Waynesburg: 



About two and a half dollars. There are 2,9:i6 farmers in 

 the county, and I think the average loss per farm would bp, 

 at a very low and conservative estimate, two dollars each. 



J. A. HAPEL, Waynesburg: 



Hawks destroy about twenty-five dollars' worth of my 

 poultry every year. 



HUNTINGDON COUNTY. 



GEORGE S. APPLEBY, Decorum: 



I believe that ten per cent, of all the poultry owned and 

 raised during any year is destroyed by the above named, but 

 hawks are the most destructive to young poultry. 



MILES BECK, Warrior's Mark: 



Would average from five to ten dollars yearly; all done iiy 

 hawks and foxes. 



JOHN D. ENYEART, Shirleysburg: 



Fifteen dollars; hawks are the worst; crows are alsu very 

 bad. 



J. PETER SNYDER, Huntingdon: 



Would estimate my loss from above mentioned causes frnni 

 twelve to fifteen dollars. 



W. M. BENSON. Huntingdon: 



Crows do serious damage by stealing eggs and taking the 

 young of domestic fowls. They very frequently catch and de- 

 stroy young chickens even more than the hawks. When hens 

 nest out of doors the crows hunt for and feed on the eggs. 

 The premium should be raised on hawks, minks, weasels, 

 foxes, owls, etc., to double what it is. Few persons think 

 it worth while to bother looking after such for the mean, 

 paltry sum paid them for their trouble' Destroy the English 

 Sparrow. 



GEORGE W. OWENS, Birmingham: 



Minks, foxes and wildcats are not numerous here and do us 

 little damage: rats are sometimes very destructive; crows 

 take some: one kind of hawk takes many and owls a few. 



