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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Packing guayule seedling as they are dug from the nursery beds. The roots are packed in damp shingle-tow (cedar shavings), in which condition the plants may be shipped for long distances. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Packing guayule seedling as they are dug from the nursery beds. The roots are packed in damp shingle-tow (cedar shavings), in which condition the plants may be shipped for long distances. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

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Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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california
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