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 1292 Private cooperators. Lands. Water for irrigation. Use of government buildings. Determination of suitable tracts, etc. Assignment of scientists. Duty-free entry of supplies. Contracts with pri- vate c,,lperators. Sale of guayule rub- ber to Rubber Reserve Co. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. 5. To provide to private cooperators designated by the Secretaria de Agricultura y Fomento of the United Mexican States guayule seed or seedlings of improved strains at reasonable cost and to aid such cooperators through such technical advice and assistance as is feasible in the selection of tracts of land for guayule nurseries and field plant- ings and in the establishment, protection, and care of nurseries and field plantings. B. THE SECRETARIA DE AGRICULTURA Y FOMENTO OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES AGREES: 1. To provide at its expense the lands necessary for experimental guayule plantings 2. To assist where possible in providing water for the irrigation of experimental plantings. 3. To provide at its expense at Torreon and other localities, when available, the use of government buildings for headquarters offices and the storage of supplies and equipment necessary to the investigations and surveys contemplated by this agreement. 4. To facilitate the efforts of the representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture in providing assistance to cooperators in the determination of tracts of land suitable for guayule cultivation and in the establishment, protection and care for nurseries and field plantings. 5. To assign at its option scientists to work with the scientists of the United States Department of Agriculture for the purpose of conduct- ing cooperative investigations and to aid and facilitate contacts with local and state officials and with private cooperators. 6. To use its good offices in securing duty-free entry of implements, materials and supplies needed for the conduct of official work under this agreement. C. IT IS MUTUALLY AGREED BY THE SECRETARIA DE AGRICUL- TURA Y FOMENTO OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES THAT: 1. As the successful cultivation of guayule is a highly specialized undertaking, contracts for the establishment of nurseries or plantings of seedlings will not be made with private cooperators by the Depart- ment of Agriculture of the United States of America except on the basis of a determination satisfactory to the parties to this Memoran- dum that a cooperator is qualified and willing to conduct such work in accordance with successfully established methods. 2. Guayule rubber produced as a direct result of work carried out under this memorandum and not required for investigative purposes by the parties hereto will be sold to the Rubber Reserve Company, an agency of the United States Government, in accordance with the Agreement of September 4, 1942 [1] between the Government of the Republic of Mexico and the Rubber Reserve Company. I [Not printed.]

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