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liunt iheiii. l)Ul wt- sullei greatly rium these animals. About 

 all the income a man derives now from his farm is from his 

 cows and poultry. We lost greatly last year from poultry- 

 destroying animals, and our neighbors have suffered as we do 

 from the visits of foxes, hawks and weasels. We lose ten dol- 

 lars or more annually. Try and help us out. Don't forget 

 the weasel as he robs the nest of the quail and the pheasant." 



JOHN C. WITSON, Sonestown: 



Foxes, one dollar; minks, one dollar and a half: hawks, one 

 dollar. 



T. S. SIMMONS, Sonestown: 



I raise considerable poultry and lose from ten to twenty 

 dollars' worth every year, principally by minks, hawks, 

 weasels and owls. 



L. B. SPEAKER, Hillsgrove: 



Weasels, none; depredations of minks, eight per cent.; foxes, 

 six per cent.; hawks, three per cent.; owls, one per cent. 



SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY. 



E. A. WESTON and E. L. WESTON, Brooklyn: 



Sometimes none, sometimes considerable, according to other 

 food supplies for these depredators; say ten dollars on an 



average. 



DK. H. A. TINGLEY, Susquehanna: 

 Not a dollar. 



TIOGA COUNTY. 



M. SORNBERGER, Job's Corners: 



I do not make a business of raising poultry, but hawks 

 and crows take about twenty per cent, of the young of what 

 I do have. 



D. S. DOUGHERTY, Austinburg: 



Only raise a small amount of poultry. Insect parasites and 

 tame cats are more destructive to my poultry than the ani- 

 mals fwhich destroy about five dollars' worth annu.ally) 

 named in the postal you sent me. 



W. H. WHITING, Wellsboro: 

 About ten- per cent, of stock (young) from skunks. 



A. J. DOAN, East Chatham: 



I am engaged In raising poultry In a small way; lose a few 

 chickens. They are taken by hawks and rats. 



n. L.. HOYT. Elkland: 



The above commit very few depredations in this neighbor- 

 hiiod. b)if gangs of hoys and young men (so-called) steal and 



