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as strongly marked a cross gray and red as I ever saw; I ex- 

 amined the stomach of one of the two-thirds grown pups and 

 it contained Field Mice and remains of Pheasants. 



GEO. \V. HILL, Media, Delaware County: 



I have lived on or been interested in some farm in Delaware 

 county for sixty-five years and have noticed particularly the 

 habits of Red Foxes and believe them to be beneficial to the 

 farmer. Many of our best farmers are of our opinion, and 

 will not suffer them destroyed or disturbed. It is true where 

 they have pups they will occasionally take chickens, but never 

 until the stock of Groundhogs, Muskrats and Mice are ex- 

 hausted. I have known them to carry Groundhogs and Musk- 

 rats one-half mile to their young and have watched them catch 

 Mice and pile them up eight or ten in a heap after they had 

 eaten all they wanted, and verily believe by destroying these 

 animals they more than pay for all the poultry they eat. "We 

 have no Gray Foxes. 



DR. J. E. CLEVELAND, Canton. Bradford County: 



We have the Red, Gray and Cross Fox. The first quite com- 

 ■mon and all equally destructive in proportion to their num- 

 bers. Foxes destroy a great many Field Mice and not a few 

 Woodchucks; but, on the whole, I believe them detrimental 

 to the farmer. 



When a boy on my father's farm I went to a back pasture to 

 drive home the sheep; as I got in sight of the flock they were 

 huddled together and looking towards the woods; I soon dis- 

 covered the cause of their fright. A Fox was making towards 

 the woods as fast as his burden would let him. The farm dog 

 gave chase and the Fox dropped his prey and scampered off. I 

 found a lamib still bleeding that the Fox was carrying off. The 

 sheep had dropped the lamb that day but it was large and 

 had apparently been on its feet and nursed. Several lambs had 

 disappeared mysteriously. Several days after while hunting for 

 drummers (no game laws then), I found a hollow log with feath- 

 ers of Geese and Turkeys, skulls of Woodchucks and bits of lamb 

 skin with the wool on scattered around. I stopped up the end of 

 the log with stones, secured help and an axe and took out of 

 the log the mother Fox and five whelps. I hear complaints 

 every year from the farmers among whom I practice of their 

 losing poultry. Grown and half grown fowls are usually taken 

 in the day time and by Foxes. If a large number of fowls are 



