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E. O. AUSTIN, Austin: 



Occasionally had chicliens caught by hawks and owls. 

 Probably two dollars annually. 



CHARLES FRAUB, Germania: 



Our community is troubled mostly by foxes and hawks. 

 The money loss I cannot tell. 



SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. 



A. F. KIMMEL, Orwigsburg:. 

 Lose annually fifty dollars. 



\V. H. PTOT'T, Fine Grove: 



Had a few ducks destroyed by minks, and used the ducks 

 to destroy the minks. 



SNY^DER COUNTY. 



HENRY NOYES. Salem: 



Not engaged largely in raising poultry. Think our loss is 

 about twenty-five dollars annually. 



SOMERSET COUNTY. 



.lEREMIAH S. MILLER, Husband: 



At prices we get would say about five to eight dollars" 

 worth, by hawks, crows and minks. 



PETER MILLER, Somerset: 



Keep les.= than a hundred fowls; lose probably twenty per 

 cent, of the raising by minks and hawks. 



DR. H. D. MOORE. New Lexington: 



I raise poultry on a small scale. I have never lost any 

 poultry except by skunks, and none by tliem for several years 

 past. I guard against them by raising the coops over a foot 

 from the ground. 



SULLIVAN COUNTY. 



A letter dated April 8, 1S97. was received from Mr. M. J. 

 Phillips, Muncy Valley. Sullivan county, Pa. He says: "I hope 

 you will be able to help Hon. B. W. Jennings to get a bill put- 

 ting a bounty on hawks, as they are very destru(^tive to our 

 young poultry. They will dive right down in the yard and take 

 our chickens, turkeys and ducks. "Weasels and foxes do the 

 same, and they destroy the young of quail, and the pheasant 

 .'ind other birds and their eggs. We would have plenty of quail 

 and pheasants around our fields and woods if these depredators 

 were exterminited, I think the bounty should be fifty cents 

 each on hawks, weasels and owls, nnd foxes, one dollar: then 

 lots of people would hunt them. 



There is a bounty now on foxes, and there aie some men whi> 



