opossums. Crows do good service in attacking and driving 

 away hawlvs, doing more good than liarm. 



N. P. HARKY, Whiteford, Hartford county, Md.: 



About ten or fifteen dollars yearly from minks, hawks and 

 skunks. Mr. Harry adds as a foot-note: "This and the other 

 questions you sent were submitted to the Pen Mar Farmers' 

 Club, and the answers given fairly express the individual 

 opinions of nearly all its members, as well as my own." 



OBSERVATIONS OF FARMERS AND SPORTS- 

 MEN. 



"Please give, if you can from personal observation, instances 

 of where game, fish, poultry or song birds have been destroyed, 

 and also name kind of animal committing the depredation." 



In reply to this request, the following answers were received 

 at the offlce of the Game Commission: 



ADAMS COUNTY. 



E. D. STOVER. Cashtown: 



The hawks and foxes kill off the quail in winter. Skunks 

 will kill more rabbits than the hunters. These animals destroy 

 much poultry. 



H. J. LEREW, Biglersville: 



Much poultry is destroyed by hawks, owls, crows, minlis, 

 weasels, skunks, wild cats and foxes. 



SAMUEL HALL, Trust: 



Poultry and game, as well as the song birds, suffer from 

 the wildcat, fox, red and gray squirrels, weasels, hawks and 

 owls. 



AARON SCHLOSSER. Arendtsville: 



Depredations of a grave character are committed in our 

 poultry yards by foxes, minks, weasels, hawks and owls. 



J. P. TAYLOR, Arendtsville: 



When I was hunting on South Mountain this winter ('96.1, 

 I saw several rabbits that had been caught and killed by 

 a fox, and some pheasants that had been similarly treated by, 

 to my judgment, a iiawk. 



WILLIAM BUSHMAN. Gettysburg: 



Have seen poultry, game and song birds destroyed l>y the 

 crow, different species of hawks, minks and weasels. 



