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D. KISTLEK, Kistler: 



My loss is trifling. We lieep our poUltry in close houses at 

 night, but the average loss to our farmers can be put down at 

 five or ten dollars each. 



MILTON ESHELMAN, Newport: 

 None. We are close to tovi'n. 



R. M. ALEXANDER, New Bloomfield: 



Our loss Is chiefly from rats and cats; don't raise many; 

 lose twenty-five or thirty chickens in a year from visits of rats, 

 cats and hawks. 



PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. 



HON. SAMUEL CROTHERS. 1407 Filbert street, Philadelphia: 

 When I wns a boy my trust was to watch the poultry. TliP 

 Red -tailed Hawk used to carry away a good many young 

 turkeys, etc. The crow also took some. 



PIKE COUNTY. 



NELSON DEWITT, Rowland: 



Wildcats and raccoons are the worst enemies of the feathered 

 tribe. My loss in money from them can easily be estimated on 

 an fiverage a:, ten dollars per year; some years it runs ashighas 

 twenty dollars. Wildcats also kill young deer, and around 

 swamps are very destructive of rabbits and pheasants. My 

 opinion on foxes destroying pheasants would be (taking into 

 consideration eggs and young which they destroy), fifty pheas- 

 ants per year, for each fox. 



HON. LAFAYF.TTE ROWLAND. Rowland: 



All the abov? are destructive; wildcats and raccoons are also 

 noxious and should be exterminated (even if we admit that 

 Noah had them along in his ride). When the female fox has 

 her young she not only preys on domestic poultry, but eats 

 eggs; also young and old birds. Foxes destroy thousands of 

 pheasants here annually. My money loss in poultry annually 

 is fully five dollars. 



JUSTIN NILES, Edgemere: 



I had in the woods of my vicinity a pheasant's nest and was 

 waiting for a bantam hen to be ready to take the eggs. 

 When I sent yesterday for the eggs there was nothing left 

 of the nest but a bunch of feathers. A fox had made a meal 

 of the whole. 



POTTER COUNTY. 



SAMT'ET> HAVEN GLASSMIRE. Coudersport: 



Skunks are my worst enemies. My fowls suffer from ih>'ir 

 invasions to the pxtenf nf about ten dollars annually. 



