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TUNG OIL CAN BE USED FOR ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
?	Tung oil has been used extensively in the paint and varnish industry.
?	In the 30?s, tung oil compounds were used to coat cables, telephone wires, generators, fans, and various other types of electrical equipment.
?	The automobile industry used large quantities of tung oil. For instanci every brake band manufactured used it as a binding agent to hold it together.
?	At one time, more than 2 million pounds of it were used annually to manufacture cosmetic tubes.
?	During the War of 1914 it was used extensively in the treatment of airplane fabrics as a water resisting varnish.
?	The Chinese have used it for waterproofing masonry, cloth, shoes, clothing, and paper.
?	It can be used to seal concrete.
?	Tung oil, mixed with lime mortar or burned tung nut residue, was one of the world's first agents for waterproofing caulking boafe.
?	It is used by stonemasons on granite and marble to permanently seal stone surfaces to prevent staining.
?	A light coat rubbed onto steeIXs an effective rust inhibitor.
?	The shells of tung nuts yield a valuable raw material for the manufacturing of insecticides.
?It is used in the printing of U.S. Paper Currency.
?	Tung oil was reportedly mixed in the mortar that made the Great Wall of China.
TUNG OIL IN THE U.S. - HOW AND WHY IT GOT HERE.
The first tung tree seed was brought to America from Hankow, China in 1905 by a senior agricultural explorer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 1912 the Bureau of Plant Industry issued a special bulletin that urged growers to plant tung orchards and offered a limited number of free one-year old trees. This was a perfect fit, because after acre upon acre of pine trees were cut for timber in the early 1900s, Gulf Coast farmers were looking for a sustainable cash crop for the vast vacant land. That same year, ten trees were planted at University of Florida?s Agricultural Experiment Station in Gainesville. By 1927, there were over 400 growers and more than 10,000 acres of tung oil trees in Alachua County, Florida and surrounding areas alone.
In 1928, L.P. Moore, nephew of the Benjamin Moore Paints founder, built the first mechanized tung oil compressing mill in the world, located in Gainsville, Florida. This began the commercial production of tung oil in America. Other mills later popped up in Cairo, Georgia and Florala, Alabama. The U.S. was a prime location for this new industry, importing 100 million pounds of Chinese tung oil in 1927, and 120 million pounds in 1933, with demand still exceeding supply. The industry expanded from Florida, Georgia and Alabama to Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, with Mississippi becoming the largest producing state.
Just prior to the outbreak of WWII, tung oil was declared a strategic item for defense use, so the government aided growers to help them to produce more and better trees. During the war, all ammunition was coated with tung oil and products containing tung oil painted all ships. Not only were government support programs available for US
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