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CRAWFOUD S lON'i )II.M( >I'S or'n.AV. 



The county of Crawford leads all other couiilies in 

 the State in the amount of money expended under the 

 act of 188."). This county paid, it is said, between $10,- 

 000 and $1:^.000 in bounties and fees to local otticials. 

 The incomplete leooids from Ci in\ ford show that 

 nearly J 1,000 Hawks and Owls and over 10,500 Minks 

 and Weasels were paid for in about two years. The 

 members of the Senate and Hduse of Representatives 

 from Craw ford have always, in recent years, vigorously 

 opposed all bounty measures which have been under 

 consideration in our General Assembly and one of the 

 chief arouments they used was that such legislation, 

 with tlie lack of popular knowledge of wild birds and 

 mammals, enabled designing persons to practice fraud 

 in numerous ways; R(^d Squirrels and Chipmunks w^ere 

 killed for Weasels, Butcher-birds and other feathered 

 animals were called Hawks and Owls, and their lieads 

 were often of as much value to scalp hunters as the 

 genuine heads. 



PIKE AND LYCOMING COUNTIES. 



IMke county is one of the best localities in Pennsyl- 

 vania for game of different kinds, but unfortunately 

 this county is infested with a number of market hun- 

 ters wh'O are skilled in snaiing and trapping game. 

 These poachers, together with Foxes, Wildcats, Minks, 

 Weasels and Hawks of the genus Accipitor, with the 

 Great Horned Owl, have almost entirely exterminated 

 Ruffed Grouse during recent years in some parts of 

 Fike and neighboring counties. From best information 

 w'hich can be obtained no effoi'ts were made to practice 

 fraud in Pike county wherc^ under bounty laws since 

 1885, 1,110 F(..\es (both species), 1.S2 Wildcats and 207 

 Minks have Iteeu killed for premiums. 



