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PAUL. SWINGLE. S. Canaan: 



Skunks are very injurious by destroying poultry. 



JOHN KELLOW, Carley Brook: 



Skunks like good fat poultry, but I do not think they are very 

 destructive; they also catch mice; while we do not know how 

 many mice they catch, they might balance accounts. 



E. B. GAGER, Dyberry: 



Skunks kill our chickens and eat our eggs. 

 GEO. FRANC, Ariel: 



Skunks, quite common. Destructive to poultry. 

 GEO. M. DAY, Dyberry: 



Skunks are beneficial. They destroy many bugs, beetles, 

 squash bugs, bumble bees, nests, etc. Where do they collect 

 and bottle up their ammunition for defence if not in our fields 

 and pastures? Step on a lot of the large bugs found on the 

 squash and pumpkin vines, then interview a Polecat, at a 

 safe distance, and see if the perfume is not the same. Now 

 if they are walling to pick up a living in that way, and grow 

 fat on it, why not let them? 



C. W. PENNEiLL, Hemlock Hollow: 



The Skunk -is very destructive to poultry of all kinds and is 

 quite plentiful here. I have known the Skunk to destroy nests 

 of eggs and whole broods of young chickens in a single night. 

 I am sure it was a Skunk, as I put a steel trap in a nest with 

 a few eggs and caught him the next morning. Think the 

 State should pay a bounty on the Skunk. 



N. F. UNDERWOOD, Lake Como: 



Skunks are plenty here; do not do much damage; they will 

 occasionally kill chickens. 



PETER COVEY, Newfoundland: 



Skunks are common; from personal knowledge know they are 

 injurious to poultry. 



WESTMORELAND COUNTY. 



JOHN NICHOLAS, Bradenville: 



The Polecat is an animal most unpleasant in many respects, 

 but must, like all other animals, have been created for some 



