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say, j^rcal numbers of small fruit trees about tlieii- 

 premises. The tommuii everyday Rabbit, with which 

 every farmer's boy is well acquainted, is called the 

 Carolinian Wood Hi\n' f Lepus sylvaticus). 



DON'T usf: snares or ferrets. 



However, notwithstanding the mischief they do, it is 

 not legal to use snares, other similar devices, or Fer- 

 rets to capture these mammals which inhabit the 

 woods and cultivated fields. 



FOXES. 



Both the Red Fox and the Gray Fox are found in 

 Pennsylvania. They are destroyers of game birds and 

 small mamnvals. The Red Fox is particularly fond of 

 poultry; he also captures many mice and insects, and, 

 sometimes, he kills lambs and pigs. 



THE WILD CAT. 



This animal, which is so extremely destructive of 

 game, as well as of the farmers' poultry, that he 

 chances to meet on his foraging expeditions, is found 

 in a number of counties of Pennsylvania, and accord- 

 ing to all accounts this species is increasing quite 

 noticeably in several regions of the Commonwealth. 

 The Wild Cat is quite common in Clearfield, Cameron, 

 Clinton, Elk, Forest, McKean, and Potter counties. 



Wild Cats appear to have multiplied in recent years 

 so rapidly in several counties of Pennsylvania that at 

 the last session of our Legislature C97), by the earnest 

 efforts of prominent residents of Cameron, Clearfield, 

 Lycoming, Elk and a few other counties a bounty of 

 two dollars per head was placed on these animals. 



