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Tung Trees, also an importation from China, bear nuts. About 30,000 U. S. acres, chiefly in Florida, are planted to tung trees. B. F. Williamson of Gainesville, Fla., told the Dearborn meeting that an acre of tung trees produces four times as much oil as an acre of flax, and that tung oil is preferable to linseed oil in paints and varnishes. Half of the linseed oil which the U. S. requires is imported. Merely to replace that imported linseed oil would require 3,000,000 acres devoted to flax, or 750,000 acres of tung groves, calculated...
Argentina. Drought since last May in several northern provinces, damaging flax and wheat crops by 30%, induced Catholic Bishops to order general prayers for rain...
...purpose of the exhibit is non political, and merely to show what Russia is doing now in the way of industrial and educational development. A complete collection of samples of Soviet exports is on view, including specimens of manganese, wood pulp, flax, and fibers...
...House of Morgan in 1918, Mr. Campbell applied industrial methods to 95.000 Montana acres, became the largest wheat farmer in the U. S. In 1929 he went to Russia as wheat adviser to the Soviet Government. This year on his Hardin farm, he cut his wheat acreage, substituted flax and beans for grain. As an authority and a supporter of the Farm Board's efforts, he can get the ear of President Hoover whenever he wants...
...Flax 25,200,000 bushels...