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J. H. WILKINS. Cherry Grove: 

 Hawks, skunks, 'coons and weasels destroying pouUiy, etc. 



F. F. WELD, Sugar Grove: 



Rabbits killed by fox and mink, poultiy by hawks, brooding 

 partridges greatly pestered by foxes. 



H. B. BLAXDING, Barnes: 



I have known of red squirrels taking small birds, skunks will 

 take eggs from under a pheasant, and sometlm.es the pheasant, 

 too; owls killed four of my hens in one night, and a sfkunk 

 took ten young chicks of mine in one night also. 



W. S. PEIRCE, Warren: 



Frequently see during the early snow in the winter a bunch 

 of grouse feathers on the snow with fox or wildcat tracks lead- 

 ing from them: eggs broken in the spring with the odor of the 

 skunk still about the nest. 



RICHARD B. STEWART, Warren: 



Hawks killing young grouse and rabbit?: foxes and wildcats 

 leave nothing but the feathers. 



W. P. HUNTER, Warren: 

 Hen haw'ks and fish hawks destroying game, poultry, etc. 



T. J. H. IRWIN, Warren: 

 Poultry by owls and hawks. 



E. B. EVERTS, Corydon: 



Last fall I shot two fish hawks in the act of taking fish. T 

 also shot about twelve kingfishers. 



WASHINGTON COUNTY. 



NORWOOD JOHNSTON, Canonsburg: 



To see a hawk in this county is a sure sign that there Is i\ 

 covey of quail in the vicinity. 



CHARLES G. McILVAINE, Monongahela: 



Fox, hawk and owl are very destructive to quail, pheasant 

 and rabbit. I have found feathers and tracks, and observed 

 where large numbers of quail had been destroyed. The salt 

 and sulphur water from mines hurt the fish. 



J. T. PARKINSON, Sparta: 



I believe the telephone and telegraph wires destroy more 

 song birds than any other cause. 



GEORGE iMONTGOMERY, Washington: 



The oil industry' has been the cause of killing most of Dur 

 fish in this section. 



