Show CATTLE SCARCE BEH GOING UP Secretary of Agriculture Trying to Solve the Problem of More Feed Washington ashington June 15 To increase the supply of beef and aRd thereby lessen leaNn th the cost cast to th the American householder is t one of oC the principal objects underlying the efforts of the department of agriculture to secure a product that will thrive In Inthe Inthe inthe the semiarid regions of ot the northwest Beef and beef products are said to have hae reached the highest prices price recorded in 11 twenty years and the dealers claim that this is due to scarcity of cattle It is to increase the supply of beef by Increasing the belt in the west that the department of agriculture a h hagain hi hj again sent N i F Hanson Hansen of Brooking BrookingS S 8 D to make a thorough investigate n of the plant life lite of northern Russia rt y i i Siberia Professor Hansen will visit t sections of northern Europe and A where climatic conditions condition are similar those of the semiarid lands of at W n v Colorado Montana and the Dakotas an alfalfa or clover can be found wh d will win withstand these climatic conditi v va i ia a hundred head of cattle could be griz i t upon the land now required by ten |