Show CAN WE RAISE RUBBER our emen emerl count county farmers tir might right find it much to their advantage to expert mont etith A ith the cultivation of tho the rubber plant aich ie is sat said to gro v prolifically in colorado on semi and arid land and with out irrigation Itle is 13 said to be enormous considering the time and lab or needed to divelo develop it should it be successfully groan groa n here there are tho thoua us ands ends of acres of lied in emery counts counti st 11 subject to hom homestead ho estea ling that can be made to produce this rubber plant experiment conducted by k N wood a florist of salida calida colo that the plant cin be grown from seed itcan it can therefore be transplanted and fielde grown fro u this source It thries best on the northern and western slopes and will take frona two to throe lears to properly cultivate it one started it is era er fie lie it has been demonstrated that there are mills which can produce i a very fine quinta qu of the rubber and there is i a etan stan lins ling offer from the board of of 70 cents to il 1 tor for aery pound of rubt or produced from the plant the united stairs aloie can consume over 50 pounds of rubber a 3 ear tho the plant v is a discovered in 1902 by B I 1 spencer a western estern piou pion |