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Show Tung Orchards Are New South Industry TALLAHASSEE, FLA. Tung oil, for thousands of years an Oriental monopoly and closely guarded secret, se-cret, is back from war and ready to lend its magic qualities to peacetime peace-time uses. Known as "Chinawood oil" in the paint and varnish industry, indus-try, which takes most of the U. S. tung production, this magic fluid is rapidly finding new uses in industry in-dustry and agriculture. Grown in a belt along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from Gainesville, Gaines-ville, Fla., through Georgia, Alabama, Ala-bama, Louisiana and Mississippi, tung orchards are an early indication indi-cation of spring. Their five-petaled, pink and white blossoms have come to mean to the upper Florida peninsula penin-sula what the orange blossom means to central Florida. Marshall Ballard Jr., secretary of the American Tung Oil association, associa-tion, says that "to the southern American farmer, large or small, tung oil today offers a splendid opportunity op-portunity for a good cash crop." |