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Senate committees on agriculture gave us strong 

 support. 



On the other hand there was at least one member 

 of Congress who resented our &quot;invasion&quot; of his dis 

 trict in the Hemet Valley for some of our planta 

 tions, and he fought us vigorously, not hesitating to 

 depart from the facts if it would serve his purpose. 



The Associated Farmers in California were a haras- 

 sing group. When we put sinks in the quarters we 



&quot;built to house Mexican laborers and their families, 

 the Associated Farmers accused us of wasting the tax 

 payers money. The House Agriculture Committee 

 sent a sub-committee out to investigate and they 

 gave the critics a scorching rebuke. 



Despite obstacles Evan Kelley and his outfit 

 did a superb job. I doubt if any other man in the 

 Forest Service could have given the effective 

 leadership and direction to the job that Kelley did. 

 By the time the project was terminated we had 

 produced 2,947,273 pounds of guayule rubber, in 

 cluding a small quantity from the wild plant 

 harvested in Texas. 



Along with the guayule enterprise we experimented 

 with other plants. Russia sent us seeds of Russian 



