Show Oice Poor Wastelands Now Yield Profitable Products Use F Farm rm Crops in Plastics Opens Industry to Agriculture Urge Production of Many New Nev Plants The liThe proportion of usable wealth to be derived from an acres acre's production is becoming larger has meant maximum utilization of maximum production It has insisted that ways be found to use the high as well as the low values of the harvest harvest- J the stalk as well as the grain the shell as well as the kernel the weed as well as the crop With those words Wheeler McMillen l president of the National Farm Chemurgic Council describes the revolutionary effect promises to have on agriculture With a national pur pur- purchasing purchasing purchasing chasing power to support the new products of this industry f farmers farm farm- farmers ers will not only be obtaining additional income from standard crops i but they will derive revenue from the use of the vast sub- sub marginal lands now lying waste Dandelions milkweeds and cat cat- cattails tails tails all all of these and many more were once considered the useless and even pestiferous embroidery of the lonely plains But today they have been proven to have real commercial com com- commercial commercial mercial value Although American experiments with the dandelion have not been as extensive as those in Russia efforts are being made here to convert the latex of this colorful little plant into rubber In this field we were con con- concerned concerned concerned with the guayule shrub and although the project later was abandoned aban aban- abandoned abandoned because of the steady flow of natural rubber from the Indies it has now been revived in the sandy Southwest But if we have lagged in our de de- development development de- de development of the dandelion not so with the milkweed or the cattails f A- A I y S 5 j t rr I t tr r S I L S R The castor plant plants beans inset contain valuable oil oil for for medicine and industry Yield per acre varies according to soil loil |