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Title: Diseases and enemies of poultry
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Pearson, Leonard, 1868-1909 Warren, Benjamin Harry, 1858-
Subjects: Poultry Birds
Publisher: (Harrisburg, C.M. Busch, state printer
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tivated fields. Both the Red Fox aud the Gray Fox are found inPennsylvania. Tliey are destroyers of game birds andsmall mammals. The Red Fox is particularly fond ofpoultry; lie also captures many mice and insects, and,sometimes, he kills lambs and pigs. THE WILD CAT. This animal, which is so extremely destructive ofgame, as well as of the farmers poultry, that hechances to meet on his foraging expeditions, is foundin a number of counties of Pennsylvania, and accord-ing to all accounts this species is increasing quitenoticeably 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 yearsso rapidly in several counties of Pennsylvania lliat atthe last session of our Legislature (97), by the earnestefforts of pr(Hnin(nt residents of Cameron, Clearfield,T.yconiing. Flic and a fow other counties a bounty oftwo dolhirs ))er hcail was placed on tliese nniiiials.
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509 THE RACCOON. TJie Coon is common and well-known. It occnrsi;(.nci-ally throiiglionl Pennsylvania, from which regionlarge numbers of ))elts of this coin-loving animal areannually shipped. Raccoons catch fish, and they feedupon mice, frogs, young birds, birds eggs, crayfishmollusks, turtles and their eggs. They capture large-sized insects; nuts, fruits and poultry are dainty mor-sels for these animals which are more destructive tocorn than any othei- of the farmers possessions. THE OTTER. Tliis wary and valuable fur-bearing animal, so de-structive to fish, is found about streams and lakes innearly every section of the State, but it is nowhereabundant and may, not improperly, be classed amongthe species termed rare. Individuals of this speciesare, of course, much cftener found about streams andlakes or old splash dams in the mountains and sparse-ly-settled districts than elsewhere in Pennsylvania.Two or three years ago two were captured along theBrandy wine Creek, near Chadds Fo^rd,

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