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bits. Am in l'a\oi of a liberal bounty being placed on their 

 worthless heads. 



JOHN E. STOCKER, Luzerne County: 



We have Wildcats and Catamounts and they are very de- 

 trimental to game. They occur most plentifully on the Wilkes- 

 Barre mountains in the neighborhood of Triangle and Crystal 

 lakes, and also on the North mountains; the latter are better 

 suited for them, as there more game, large and small, abounds. 

 Favor bounty being paid by the county. 



GEORGE R. BOAK. Pine Green, Centre County: 



Wildcats are plentiful and very destructive to our game; are 

 particularly bad about killing pheasants and they also destroy 

 young deer in our game preserve. We introduced Wild Tur- 

 keys into our preserve and the Wildcats and Foxes destroyed 

 both old and young notwithstanding the fact that we tried 

 faithfully to exterminate them through the aid of traps, poison 

 and guns. Favor a bounty being paid by the county. 



WM. B. BIGLER, M. D. York County: 



They are so rare in this county that little is known of their 

 depredations. One killed a few years ago, near Brogueville, 

 was said to have killed and eaten a number of chickens. 



DR. A. B. MacCREA, Berwick, Columbia County: 



Wildcats are comparatively common in some parts of the 

 county, and no doubt destroy game to a considerable extent, 

 but they do not, it seems, disturb poultry very often. 



W. B. K. JOHNSON, Allentown, Lehigh County: 



No Wildcats in this county so far as I know. Possibly spme 

 may be present in the extreme northern part of Lehigh. I 

 have travelled where the lynx was numerous; never knew of 

 grown persons being attacked, but have been told chickens 

 were. They live on game, birds, small lambs and young pigs. 

 I have helped to hunt them in Florida when lambs and pigs 

 were thus killed. 



N. W. MILLER, Fayette County: 



I think it would be right to put a bounty of, say, two dollars, 

 on the Wildcat, as this animal is very destructive to game. 

 One Wildcat will kill more game than six hunters in a sea- 



