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Slicks all the eggs he can find. If a hen i)r turkey staals its 

 nest in the field and sets there he is pretty sure to get the pgs>'. 

 He serves the Quails and Pheasants the same way. 



LEHIGH COUNTY. 



W. B. K. JOHNSON, AUentown: 



Skunks. In a poultry yard I should not want them; they love 

 eggs too well and have often come from the woods to steal 

 eggs in our tarns during winter and were caught entering a 

 square hole for cats to enter; after feasting on eggs were not 

 able to repass and were caught. 



LUZERNE COUNTY. 



JOHN E STOCKER, Ashley: 



Skunks are injurious and dangerous. I know of a family by 

 the name of Bergers, who lived along what is know-n as the 

 middle road between Ashley and Buttonwood, about a mile from 

 here, who had a very nice flock of ducks and chickens. There 

 is a running stream about a stone's throw from the house, and 

 on the side of a small hill they had built a coop to house their 

 flock; it was not long before Mr. Berger noticed the number 

 of his flock going down; his idea was that they were stolen. 

 One night he had occasion to go out on a bright moonlight 

 night; he noticed what he thought were two dogs playing in 

 the road; he moved a little closer and soon found they were 

 Skunks; he was attacked by them and it was all he could do to 

 get away. Had it been a child instead of a man, the result 

 would have been the child would have been killed or nearly so. 

 Mr. Berger's suspicion was aroused and he made a hunt around 

 his premises; the nest containing five young was found under 

 the pen; of course they were all killed, as was one adult. 



M. B. TRESCOTT, Harvey ville: 



The Skunk is injurious. It is a great destroyer of eggs, rob- 

 bing hens' nests, particularly those "setting." and destroying 

 whole broods of young chickens in a night and sometimas 

 killing an old one. I have known a number of instances where 

 they have got into out kitchens and cellars, and spoiled by their 

 "scent," nearly everything stored there. I do not know of any 

 good they do. 



