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yet we never missed any poultry, but there was a noticabl<- 

 decrease of Rats. 



A. W. RHOADS. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: 



The Weasel, I am sure after years of personal experience and 

 observation and careful study, is the worst enemy the Pheas- 

 ant and Quail have. I have repeatedly tracked a Weasel that 

 had followed the track of a Quail and Pheasant in the snow, 

 and at last came upon the dead birds. I, on one occasion, saw 

 a nest of thirteen Pheasant eg^gs, about to be hatched, and in 

 returning in an hour found that eleven of them had been de- 

 stroyed by a Weasel which I saw and killed. 



C. P. MOTT, Milford, Pa.: 



Weasels are the greatest destroyers of game and poultry, 

 and they deserve total extinction. 1 know of no redeeming 

 feature or any possible usefulness alive in their wild state. 

 They are scarce when small game is, and numerous when such 

 game is easy prey. They seem to be travelers and to such 

 parts as are prolific of game. There is no escape for the Rab- 

 bit when once they get its track, and a nest of Grouse eggs 

 furnishes him a meal, if the hen bird escapes his quick, stealthy 

 approach. I consider that the Weasel has no equal as an 

 enemy of game. 



ARTHUR MARTIN, Sandy Lake, Pa.: 



We have the Weasel; they destroy poultry to a great extent, 

 sometimes will or have for us, killed whole broods, but at the 

 ^me time are great hunters for Mice, Rabbits and small game. 



HON. N. F. UNDERWOOD, Lake Como, Wayne County: 



Some Weasels; don't do much damage; they will occasionally 

 destroy chickens. 



D. KISTLER, Kistler, Pa.: 



The Weasel abounds and will kill grown chickens. 



ENOS BLOOM, New Millport, Clearfield County: 

 The Weasels are plentiful and also destructive to poultry. 



JOHN F. WEAKLY, Slippery Rock, Pa.: 



Weasels will kill a whole flock of Turkeys or Chickens at a 

 time; have known them to kill as high as twenty at a time. 



