Show HAWKS CROWS AND SKUNKS three most dangerous enemies 01 chicken fancier but they can be trapped or frightened away it Is pretty safe to say that at least one tenth ot the chickens batched are destroyed by species of carniv ora I 1 used to lose on an average chicks a year by hawks until I 1 got a dog and trained him a writer in new york sun bays after that I 1 did not lose any so as a cure for hawks 1 place a good dog first second a gun and third a steel trap fastened by a chain to a pole in the chicken yards shoot one or two hanks and bang the carcasses on tall poles and they are a warning against others the hawk wants his meat alive so you have some idea bow to fight him but the crow Is not particular whether it Is dead or alive lie takes it any way that comes handy and Is more ingen ious in his methods of getting it it Is generally a case of watching with a shotgun handy for mr crow as he is much too cunning to be caught in a trap the skunk can be caught with a trap and if be has been in a chicken house and left undisturbed you can count on your game it you go to the trouble leave the house with chicki ens in it just as it was but close up all entrances to it but right where you are going to set the trap then set the trap securing it to a stout stake and covering with grass or hay mr skunk surely will come back and walk right into the trap unless your neigh bor has caught him |