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a Skunk, two chickens in one night; a Mink, two chickens in 

 one night, at different times at my place. Could cite a hundred 

 similar cases. This county loses over $6,000 a year from Foxes, 

 Minks and Weasels. 



C. P. MOTT, Milford, I'a. ; 



Minks too few to cut any great figure, but more than needed. 

 They love the farmer's poultry and are loath to be satisfied with 

 less than the whole coop. 



F. H. FASSETT, Meshoppen, Pa.: 



About one year ago one of my neighbors lost three or four 

 grown chickens by a Mink; was finally caught. 



THOS. SEABORNE, Newlin, Pa.: 



Minks are very destructive to poultry. When they attack 

 poultry, they kill the whole flock before they stop; only eating, 

 perhaps, part of one or two at most. 



GEO. PERMAR, New Castle, Pa.: 



Minks are very plentiful in some localities, and they are es- 

 pecially desti'uctive to our hen roosts. 



C. K. SOBER, Lewisburg, Union County: 



Minks are great desti-oyers of poultry. Some years ago on 

 the farm a family of Minks took up their abode under a pig 

 pen, and before we were aware of their presence they had 

 killed not less than one-hundred and fifty chickens, large and 

 small. Finally, when the marauders were located, we were 

 obliged to tear down the pen and killed two old and five young 

 ones, the latter about one-third grown. 



JOHN L. KLINE, Liverpool, Perry County: 



Minks are very destructive to game and poultry. I have 

 known the Mink to kill as high as thirty to forty ducks in onf 

 night. I have known them to enter a chicken coop and kill 

 as high as twenty chickens. 



J. M. DUMiM, Mackeyville, Clinton County: 



Two years ago my next neighbor had fifty young chickens 

 killed in one night; I went to his home with my dog, but we could 

 not catph the supposed Mink. The following morning my other 



