SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



fatt, Chicago machinery maker. The General Tung Cor- 

 poration, started by Randall Chase, has as its biggest 

 shareholder Carter Carnegie, nephew of the steel- 

 master. In Alabama the largest grower is Earl Wallis, 

 the Chicago advertising man. United Fruit, Newport 

 Industries, Ford Motors, and several paint companies 

 represent corporations seriously interested in this new 

 agricultural field. 



Will tung oil remain large-scale industrialized agri- 

 culture or will the small-acre, subsistence farmer be- 

 come its mainstay? 



Pick your own answer from the opinions of the au- 

 thorities. J. A. LaFortune of Amarillo, Texas, past foot- 

 ball player and present trustee of Notre Dame, whose 

 thirty-eight thousand trees at Lucedale, Mississippi, are 

 managed by his brother, has positive ideas. 



"The tung tree, like the steam yacht and the chorus 

 girl, is a rich man's plaything. At least it is today ," so 

 LaFortune believes. "Under present conditions land 

 values are inflated. Labor is so scarce and so hand- 

 somely paid that the average Negro in our section, 

 making $2 to $2.75 a day, doesn't want to work more 

 than three days a week. Bearing groves bring fancy 

 wartime prices. New-planted groves won't come into 

 production for six or seven years. With the ever present 

 chance of frost, only a well-heeled man dare take such 

 risks." 



On the other side there is no compromise among 

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