TUNG-OLD OIL FOR NEW NEEDS 



bearing tung trees. Planters expect year by year to 

 better the record 1942 crop of five million pounds of 

 oil. In a word, growing tung nuts and processing the 

 oil is now established here. The business has been stim- 

 ulated by war conditions. A supersecret war use may 

 well sop up every last gallon of American tung oil, if 

 electronics live up to half their promises. So the pros- 

 pects for the postwar period are admittedly brilliant. 

 It is an opportunity for any man with some risk capital 

 and a liking for farming to grow an industrial crop that 

 competes with no other in this country. Best of all it is 

 an opportunity to diversify agriculture in the South. 

 And as that oldtime, practical tung man, Albertus 

 Miller, puts it: "We welcome more tung growers, but 

 what the American tung industry needs is not flighty 

 speculation, but solid promotion." 



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