Show any program for the conservation of human resources must include an abundance of well chos en foods according to dr hazel it St eibling of the bureau of home economics fully adequate diets are conservation measures in the finest sense of the word she points out such diets can raise the average condition of health to a far superior plane and experiments on animals indicate that superior feeding measures result in superior size better rate of growth greater resistance to disease better success in rearing the young and in general a longer life cattle prices are expected to remain fairly stable on american beef markets through the next few months a bureau of agricultural economics report issued recently states slaughter supplies of cattle are expected to increase but in view of the sharp price drop of last winter there should be no further decline the report said prices of lower grades of slaughter cattle are not expected however to make the usual seasonal advance the spread in price between lower and higher grades is not great enough to encourage any considerable increase it was wag pointed out in the western area on february 1 the percentage of turkey hens on hand for breeding bree Aing was only 76 per cent as great as as a year ago a department of agriculture summary issued recently points out western farmers planned to buy only 97 per cent as many boults for raising as a year ago and expected to hatch only 99 per cent as many as last year the entire turkey population of the country will probably be per cent as great this summer than a yearl year ago however in the north atlantic states the number of boults farmers plan to buy or hatch for raising is per cent greater than last year mining location notices for sale at this office |