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J. p. BARCLAY. BakKisvlUe: 



Have known skunks, weasels and minks to go to barns and 

 hen coops and kill poultry until caught and killed, and have 

 known foxes to catch young lambs and carry them off. 



HAY & HAY, Attorneys-at-Law, Somerset: 



Pigeon hawks are very destructive to song birds; red fox Is 

 destructive to poultry. 



DR. H. D. MOORE, New Lexington: 



I see the Sharp-shinned Hawk destroy song birds every 

 summer. Have knowledge of much poultry being d'^.itioyt^d 

 by skunks and minks. 



JOSIAH PILE, Barronvale: 



The Sharp-shinned Hawk, owl and the mink have destroyed 

 poultry to my knowledge. 



P. K. MOORE, Trent: 



My own and neighbors' poultry by foxes, skunks, minks and 

 weasel*. 



SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY. 



WILLIAM D. TURRELL, Birchardville: 

 Poultry by skunks and foxes. 



J AS. M. KELLY, Montrose: 



Have seen weasel and mink kill chickens, yoting turkeys 

 and destroying partridges' nests. Hawks carry off grouse 

 while fighting for their young, and foxes' habitations filled 

 with skins of rabbits and grouse feathers. 



W. OSTERHOUT, Harford: 



Many instances by owls, hawks, foxes, minks, weasels and 

 wildcat destroying poultry, game, etc (not barn owl.) 



H. S. ESTABROOK, Harford: 



February 27.— Saw to-day where an owl caught a rabbit and 

 ate it, but instances are too numerous to especially mention. 



G. C. HOWELL, New Milford: 

 Have found game birds and rabbits killed by foxes and owls. 



A. B. BURNS, Montrose: 

 Foxes and owls destroying poultry, game, etc. 



JAMES D. MACK, Lathrop: 

 Poultry destroyed by crows, skunks and foxes. 



S. S. THOIVIAS, Lynn: 



Have observed depredations committed by foxes, minks and 

 weasels; other predatory animals are birds, and they do some 

 good. 



