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GEORGE E. CONNER, Lewistown: 



Fox, owl, hawk, mink and weasel will all kill poullry, but 

 1 think while they do" that they also kill a great many mice 

 and rats that would do harm. 



MONROE COUNTY. 



E. E. HOOKA, JR.. Mt. Pocono: 



Ferrets, foxes and skunks have frequently killed our chick- 

 ens. 



JAMES M. AL.TEMORE, Effort: 



Minks, foxes, catamounts, fish hawks, cranes and Green 

 Heron to poultry, game, etc. 



H. T. FRANKENPIEL-D, Frutchey's: 



Hunting- catamounts and foxes. I have seen where they 

 have destroyed grouse, quail and rabbits; weasels destroy the 

 same. 



DR. J. B. SHAW. Delaware Water Gap: 

 Foxes and skunks often found with game partly eaten. 



JOHN M. NEIR, East Stroudsburg: 

 Snaring birds with wire: 



L. D. EIL.ENBERGER, East Stroudsburg: 



I frequently see, from their tracks in the snow, where foxes 

 kill pheasants. 



I. SELDON CASE, Tobyhanna: 



I could give number of instances where foxes have killed 

 pheasants; I have tracked them to the bird and found its 

 bones remaining. They also kill poultry. 



JOSEPH BROWN, Canadensis: 



Hawks and owls destroying poultry: the weasel is the worst 

 little animal to kill rabbits that we have. 



TOWNSEND PRICE, Canadensis: 



Wildcats are the most destructive of any animal in this 

 section, killing all kinds of game, and poultry in large quan- 

 tities. 



J. H. GRAVES, Delaware Water Gap: 

 Foxes kill rabbits, young pheasants and quail. 



MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 



H. S. ROYER, Pottstown: 

 Have known hawks to clean up a covey of quail in a winter. 



WHARTON HUBER, Hoyt: 



Have seen several instances where the Cooper's Sharp- 

 shinned and Duck hawks have killed birds and poultry, but 

 they kill more vermin than anythine' else. 



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