30 MAY 1931, Page 16

* a a a . POPULOUS RryErts.

How yeasty with life most waters are ! In one stream stocked with fish some years 'ago a good deal of water butter- cup was planted 'in order to give shelter for the fish as well as for shrimp and beetle and larvae. These plants have grown with aktOnishing profusion and at" this season fill so large a space of the river bed that they have produced something very near to a flood. On occasion the miller drags the bed of the stream by the agency of a chain harrow dragged by a heavy horie in midstream. These ' clumps of weed are almost as populoui as a beehive with every sort of creature, including even the smaller freshviater crayfish. It is no wonder that the trout grow large and fat at a greatr ate. a * *