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SULLIVAN COUNTY. 



OTTO BEHR, Lopez: 



Think Polecats are beneficial to the farmer; the damage they 

 do in occasionally eating the eggs out of a nest out doors, or 

 catching a setting hen is more than balanced by the insects they 

 feed on. 



J. K. BIRD, Millview: 



The Skunk is one of the worst pests the farmer has, often 

 coming to our doors and poultry houses and robbing eggs and 

 young chickens from under the hen, and many times killing old 

 fowls. I would recommend a bounty of one dollar on Skunks. 



C. F. HUNSINGER, Colley: 



I consider the Skunk more of a benefit than an injury, for the 

 reason that 1 know of many parties who trap them, making- 

 good wages selling their hides and a good fair income by frying 

 nut the oil from the carcass, which is useful and valuable. 



SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY. 



JASPER T. JENNINGS, New Milford: 



The Skunk does little or no damage to crops of any kind. 

 Their pi'incipal depredations are among the chickens and 

 young poultry. I have often known a whole brood of young 

 chickens to be destroyed by them in a single night. They often 

 burrow under some rock or go into a Woodchuck hole near the 

 farmer's dwelling and prowl forth at night in search of prey; 

 they are great destroyers of meadow mice, and they dig out 

 hornets find bumble bees' nests for the larvae of the bees; they 

 are rarely seen in the day time, but when so found will often 

 follow a person to throw their almost unendurable odor upon 

 him. Skunks bring forth several young at a time and increase 

 very rapidly. They are taken quite extensively in the fall of 

 the year when their fur is good, by means of a stone trap, 

 set with a figure four, denominated a "dead fall." The bait 

 is generally composed of a chicken's head or entrails; the boys, 

 as well as some men, derive no little pleasure, as well as some 

 profit, in running a line of traps. 



S. S. THOMAS, Lynn: 



Skunks very nommon; think fully S.uOO aie killtd in this county 



