Show Beavers Work in Pairs Are Good Dam Builders The average R weI weight ht of at a full grown male beaver is about 55 5 pounds The meat is agreeable to most although the fat tnt Is oily ally the tall tail Is a delicacy They are always In pairs and work together Their first business Is to Insure insure In in- sure lure a sufficient depth and extent of water for tor the winter and If It Nature has not done this for them they make dams to obtain It I If there are more families than one In a stretch of at water water water wa wa- ter they will work together each ap ape appearing appearing to labor on a particular part Tie The dam Is made of at earth and pieces of wood laid oblique to Its direction The wood employed Is s always of at aspen poplar or large willows ys and alders if It pine Is used it Is through necessity not by choice the bottom Is well laid and If It small stones are at hand they make use of at them for tor the bottom of at the dam the the earth is la brought between their fore tore paws and throat thront laid down and by several severa strokes of at the tall made compact the pieces of at wood are with their teeth which are formed like small chisels cut Into the lengths they want towed to Ufe Uie dam and worked In and thus the dam Is raised to the height re re- Dams erected by the art of man are frequently damaged or wholly carried away by violent freshets but no power of at water has ever carried away a beaver dam |