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LAWRENCE COUNTY. 



LEE McCOMB. Hillsvllle; 



My loss would amount to about twciity linllars per ypar by 

 weasels, hawks, owls and rats. 



HON. A. L. MARTIN, Knon Valley: 

 My loss per year would not l>o less than fi\<' dnjlars. 



JOHN MONTGOMERY, I'lanegrove: 



We suffer more from the depredations nl' the ground hog 

 and rats than all the others put together. 



LEBANON COUNTY. 



L. S. HOFFMAN, Schaefferstown: 



Hawks, owls and rats probably destroy fully ten per cent, 

 of my poultry annually. 



JOHN 3RENDLE, Shaefferstown: 



About five per cent, from rats, weasels and long-tailed 

 hawks. 



E. BOMBERGER, Lickdale: 



The most destructive of the above named are the hawk and 

 the crow; cannot tell loss. 



I. S. LONG, Richland: 

 No loss from foxes, minks or wildcats; some from hawks. 



LUZERNE COUNTY. 



D. K. LAUBACH, Fairmount Springs: 



We generally lose about one-half or three-quarters that 

 we get hatched. One year we had forty-five turkeys killed 

 by animals. We weighed one that was killed and it weighed 

 six pounds. They were all killed in one day but fifteen, the 

 old hen among tlie killed. This was done by a weasel. 

 My neighbor had twenty-seven little chicks carried off by 

 small hawks one morning. 



THOMAS O. ROBERTS, Freeland: 



I breed fancy chickens worth ten dollars a pair. Weasel 

 killed in one night twenty-one chickens and one duck. My 

 neighbor, Lewis Young, lost by a weasel in three nights 

 fifty-six common chickens. He killed the weasel. 



LEWIS H. KOCHER, Ruggles: 

 My anual loss is not more than five dollars. 



F. F. MORRIS. Dallas: 



There are some minks, weasels and skunks, but tlu' bulk 

 of the damage sustained by me results from rats and an 

 overproduction of cats. Annual loss, two dollars. 



