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come close to the house; but the greatest damage they do is 

 among Turkeys, since Turkeys take a wide range and are 

 therefore more exposed. 



C. W. DICKINSON, Norwich, McKean County: 



Have both Red and Gray Foxes in this county, but the Red 

 is the most common. They do but little damage to poultry; 

 they catch a good many Rabbits and Partridges and many 

 kinds of small birds. I think the Fox does as much good as he 

 does damage, for I know he catches a good many Squirrels, 

 Woodchucks and Field Mice. The Fox is a great hunter. I have 

 seen an old she Fox with five Mice in her mouth at one time 

 that she was carrying to her young. I have seen a Fox with 

 four Chipmunks (Ground Squirrels) in her mouth at once, 

 therefore I certainly think the Fox does more good than dam- 

 age to the farmer. 



I have known of Foxes killing Turkeys, Geese and Chickens; 

 a Fox killed five setting Turkeys for me in a single season and 

 devoured all the eggs. The Turkeys were sitting on 101 egg.s in 

 the five nests. I saw the Fox tracks in the soft ground around 

 four of the nests and found where the Fox had carried some 

 of the Turkeys to its den for its young. 



GEO. M. DAY, Dybcrry, Wayne County: 



Mr. H. W. Adams, two years ago lost nearly 100 chickens, 

 mostly by Foxes. Red Fox is most common here. I have paid 

 bounty on seventy-two Foxes this fall and winter; sixty-nine 

 Red and three Gray Foxes, so give the Red Fox credit for 

 most good or evil as the case may be. If the farmer has too 

 many Chickens scattered around his fields, Mr. Fox is ready 

 and anxious to help him care for them, or if grasshoppers and 

 Mice abound he is ever ready to reduce the crop. I watched 

 a pair of young Foxes one frosty October morning playing, hop, 

 skip, etc., but a nearer view showed they were busy catching 

 grasshoppers, and they kept it up an hour or more; at other 

 times they are very busy looking for Mice, and do more good 

 that way than we usually give them credit for. An old time 

 way to get the^n is to go out early in the morning (say in No- 

 vember) and call them up "by imitating the squeak of a Mouse. 



H. T. FRANKENFIELD, Frutcheys, Monroe County: 



Red and Gray Foxes we have here and plenty of them. I 

 consider them detrimental to the farmer and sportsman. I have 



