This old beaver house has been used for many years. It is thirty-flve feet in diameter and is so 

 overgrown with grass and willows as to resemble a small island. It is one of the many structures of 

 various ages and types of beaver architecture found in the string of ponds shown on the following 

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Young beavers at home. Part of the new group recently con- 

 structed in the American Museum 



Then came the use of 

 phicked beaver for furs 

 and this demand of 

 fashion has kept down 

 the number of beavers 

 c\er since. If we Ameri- 

 cans were not a wasteful, 

 improvident, lawless na- 

 tion, there would be little 

 trouble in supplying all 

 the l)eaver skins neces- 

 sary, and there is small 

 doubt that this will 

 eventually be done. 

 ^Yith proper restrictions 



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