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Show Science and Nature Work Together I To Make Better Tree Rubber j - j' 4 r a- w j - ."- if I Bud-grafting a young rubber tree, in Southeast Asia to produce a higher yield. Modern civilization has been nourished on the milk of the rubber rub-ber tree. From baby nipples to giant truck tires, from girdles to garden hose, life today depends on rubber. ' Over 90 of all the rubber that is grown comes from Southeast Asia where millions of people make their living by planting, cultivating and tapping the billions bil-lions of acres of rubber trees. Not satisfied with Nature's product, prod-uct, researchers are constantly at work to improve it. At the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya. hiiJh-yielding hiiJh-yielding strains are develon-d and bud-grafted to rubber trees, insecticides and fungicides are developed to keep trees healthy, and the quality of the rubber itself it-self is continually tested in laboratories. lab-oratories. Today natural rubber is used in thousands of products that serve mankind, and many new uses are being discovered every year. For a free booklet showing how rubber is grown in Southeast As:a, entitled "Natural Rubber " id You " write to the Natural ku iber Bureau, Dept. N500 1631 St., N.W., Washington 6,' D C |