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could easily be done by shooting- some sparrows, charging them 

 with strychnine, and placing them where Foxes rambled. Be- 

 fore beginning this (to me) new mode of warfare against the 

 cunning Foxes which had so often defeated me in former years, 

 I spent about a week shooting sparrows, and I took some 

 chickens' heads, and nearly twenty tame pigeons which I shot, 

 and scattered these about places where Foxes loved to rove. 

 These birds and heads were not poisoned; they were only put 

 out to let the sly robbers learn how easily they could get a 

 good meal by coming to my premises. 



ANDY, IT WAS STRYCHNINE,' NOT DISEASE. 



"The second week I followed the man's advice and soon dead 

 Foxes were found scattered around over the mountains, in 

 fields; generally, however, they were found near water. The 

 farmers and woodsmen were astonished and always believed 

 some fatal disease had attacked these animals. I followed this 

 plan, every season, with the result that Foxes, after the first 

 two years, were hardly ever seen. 



BIRDS INCREASED. 



"The Pheasants increased rapidly, and many of these little 

 ground birds which you know by different names, were much 

 more plentiful then than they are now. Four years ago I left 

 this place; no more Sparrows were put out for wandering 

 Foxes, and, you see, as they increase Pheasants decrease, and 

 the Wild Turkey is rarely, if ever, seen in places where five 

 years ago it was of common occurrence. 



HOW TO FIX THEiM. 



"If you ever want to destroy Foxes get a lot of Sparrows — 

 English Sparrows are worthless — and open the belly, pull out 

 the insides, then put in the cavity as much strychnine as you 

 can hold on the point of the small blade of an ordinary pocket 

 knife, then push the entrails back; take about three poisoned 

 birds and put them in a place together; hang them on a low 

 bush or twig, lay them on a stump, or anywhere in the Foxes' 

 feeding grounds, away from human habitation. 



WHAT A CHESTER COUNTY FARMER BE'LIEVES. 



"Sometime ago you sent me a circular asking about birds 

 and animals, I will 5«nd you some memoranda which can, if 



