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Tung oil industry in Florida.

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Date Issued:
1955
Abstract/Description:
Tung, a tree grown commercially in China for 40 centuries, was first planted in Tallahassee, Florida in 1906 and now covers and area of some 40,000 acres in this state. The tree bears fruits containing nut-like seeds from which Tung Oil, the world's finest quick-drying paint oil, is exctacted in tung mills in Florida. It is now well established in Southern States industry, with a production of 23 million pounds of tung oil in 1950.
Title: Tung oil industry in Florida.
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Name(s): Hadsell, Duane W.
PALMM (Project)
Florida Dept. of Agriculture.
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Bibliography
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1955
Publisher: State of Florida, Dept. of Agriculture
Place of Publication: Tallahassee
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 34 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language(s): eng
Abstract/Description: Tung, a tree grown commercially in China for 40 centuries, was first planted in Tallahassee, Florida in 1906 and now covers and area of some 40,000 acres in this state. The tree bears fruits containing nut-like seeds from which Tung Oil, the world's finest quick-drying paint oil, is exctacted in tung mills in Florida. It is now well established in Southern States industry, with a production of 23 million pounds of tung oil in 1950.
Table of Contents: Preface -- What is tung? -- Where grown -- Sites -- Soils for tung -- Topography -- Land preparation -- Planting plans -- Planting stock -- Planting the orchard -- Training and pruning tung -- Cultivation and covercrops -- Fertilization -- Fertilizer rates and reccommendations -- Fertilizers -- Fertilization and covercrops -- Insects and diseases -- Harvesting the crop -- The market supply and demand -- Substitutes and synthetics -- Drying oils and synthetics -- Tung and the drying-oil outlook -- Tung oil market -- Marketing the crop -- Tables and statistics -- Production -- Orchard costs and returns -- Orchard profits -- Stability of tung industry -- Appendix.
Target Audience: general
Identifier: UF00002898 (iid), 49684588 (oclc), AAA3428 QF, 971696 (digitool), uf:92897 (fedora)
Note(s): by Duane W. Hadsell.
Earlier editions of bulletin 11 were by various authors and had varying titles.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-34).
Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : Board of Education, Division of Colleges and Universities, PALMM Project, 2001. Mode of Access: World Wide Web. System Requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software; Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print PDF files. Electronically reproduced from Collection in George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida.
Subject(s): Tung oil industry -- Florida
Florida -- 12000
Library Classification: S49 .A4 no.11,1955
Library Classification: 633.85
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002898.pdf
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/UF00002898.jpg
Host Institution: UF
Other Format:
56009011
Is Part of Series: Bulletin (Florida. Dept. of Agriculture) ; no.11 .