Show beavers slowly ousting this man from his farm reading A colony of beavers has all but taken over the farm of nathan I 1 ruth near here and while ruth scans the records tor for sonic some form of farm relief for his particular case the beavers under protection of state game laws are steadily moving in on the property in greater numbers and building their li homes omes some of the damage caused by the beavers were listed by ruth they included felling of trees building of a 1 darn dam and changing the tha course of a stream traversing the farm three acres under water and converted from once dry meadow to sodden marshland destruction of an acre of corn stored away by the animals for the winter season ruth Is faced with a pe perplexing rp lexing problem he cannot trap the animals as they are arc protected by state law that action was taken several years ago by tile the state game commission because the beaver was rapidly becoming extinct it Is believed tile the beavers moved tin i in on ruths farm because it contains a large supply of aspen birch and poplar trees the principal diet of the beaver |