. Diseases and enemies of poultry . these cool, healthful and rapidly-flowing streams. Penns Cave—a modest, old-fashion-ed summer resort—can be reached by a branch of theNorthern Cential Railroad, which extends from Mon-tandon to liellefonte. In the winter season the cave isthe harboring place of thousands of Bats which con-gregate in great masses on the limestone rocks wherethey escape the piercing winters cold, and remain inquiet, harn ony and contentment, unless their hidingplace is ii vaded by human beings, when they crawlover one another or fly aimlessly about the boat andits occupants, u
. Diseases and enemies of poultry . these cool, healthful and rapidly-flowing streams. Penns Cave—a modest, old-fashion-ed summer resort—can be reached by a branch of theNorthern Cential Railroad, which extends from Mon-tandon to liellefonte. In the winter season the cave isthe harboring place of thousands of Bats which con-gregate in great masses on the limestone rocks wherethey escape the piercing winters cold, and remain inquiet, harn ony and contentment, unless their hidingplace is ii vaded by human beings, when they crawlover one another or fly aimlessly about the boat andits occupants, uttering all the while, in their squeakingway, the m6st violent i>rotests at being aroused fromtheir winters na]). Bats are beneficial. They destroy great numbers ofinsects—particularly flying species. They do not dis-turb the young of birds nor do they destroy ymingchickens as some persons suppose they do. THE OPOSSUM. We have a single sjiecies of the Opossum—the onlymarsupial in the State—and of this animals breeding. 513 habits some highly erroneous ideas are prevalent. TheOpossum is abiimlant in the South, where it is greatlyesteemed for table use. The long shaggy coat of theOpossum is considerably used by furriers in the manu-facture of different articles of wearing apparel. Thisanimal subsists on bolh animal and vegetable food. THE PORCUPINE. The Porcupine whose head, back, and tail are abundantly furnished with hard spines, hidden in a thickcoat of fur and stragj;ly long hairs, is still to be frcquently found in the hemlock forests of the mountain-ous regions. This animal, some believe, seems to havebeen made for one purpose and that is to add miseryto the lives of hunters, who take dogs in hemlockdistricts where this dark-coated and yellow-toothedanimal goes, so that he can visit, in the still nightliours, lumber camps for salty food, or browse on thetender evergreen boughs. The Porcupine does not,wlien defending himself, discharge Ws spines or quillsas some
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