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The members of tlie State Bojinl of diiiin' Comiiiis 

 sioiKM'fs hiivc jT^iven esi)eeial atteulion to the prDfi'Ssional 

 snarei's aud market hunters in tlie Pike county district 

 and reports received show that tliis illegal work has 

 decreased during the past year. 



In the county of Lycoming, through the energetic ef- 

 forts of Game Ooraniissioner Mr. E. B. Westfall, mar- 

 ket hunting and the illegal sale of game has been prac- 

 tically stopped. This is fortunate, and if the game-de- 

 vouring Foxes were thinned out Ruffed Grouse would 

 be much more plentiful and farmers would lose much 

 less poultry. Lycoming county has a larg(^ amount of 

 territory especially suited to Ruffed Grouse and if it was 

 not for Foxes, which Mr. Chas. H, El don, Taxidei-mist. 

 of Williamsport, says are increasing rapidly, these 

 birds, as well as other kinds of game and small wild 

 birds, would be much more abundant. 



ADAMS COUNTY. 



During the fiist twelve months of act of 1885 Adams county 

 l>ai(l $::,S(i(i in bnuntii-s. 



