160 WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS 
But a number of animals—squirrels, chip- 
munks, conies, and beavers—store food for the 
winter. Generally these supplies are placed 
where they are at all times readily reached 
by the owners; on the earth, in it, in the water; 
the place depending on the taste and the habits 
of the fellow. 
Upon the mountain tops the cony, or Little 
Chief Hare, stacks hay each autumn. This 
tiny stack is placed in the shelter of a big 
boulder or by a big rock, close to the entrance 
of his den. While the beaver is eating green 
canned bark the cony is contentedly chewing 
dry, cured hay. 
The beaver is one of the animals which solves 
the winter food and cold problem by storing a 
harvest of green aspen, birch, and willow. This 
is made during the autumn and is stored on the 
bottom of the pond below the ice-line. Being 
canned in cold water the bark remains fresh for 
months. 
Squirrels store nuts and cones for winter 
food. Most squirrels have a regular storing 
place. This covers only a few square yards or 
less and usually is within fifty or sixty feet of the 
base of the tree in which the squirrel has a hole 
and a winter home. 
Commonly, when dining, the squirrel goes to 
his granary or storage place and uses this for 
