Touliu

In Taiwan three species of wireworms cause damage to germinating setts. To prevent this, the drill is first opened, and fertilizer is applied at the bottom of the drill. Aldrin dust at the rate of 1lb. of active ingredient per acre is then thoroughly incorporated in two or three inches of soil at the bottom of the drill, and white ants and black beetles, were seen on the Taiwan Sugar Corporation’s plantation at Touliu.

1960 January 1, R. W. Mungomery, “The Use of Insecticides to Control Subterranean Insects in Taiwan”, in The Cane Growers' Quarterly Bulletin, volume XXIII, number 3, Brisbane: Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95, columns 1, 2

Bishop Niu arranged for transportation from Touliu, which is on the lush, undulating plains of West-Central Taiwan, to the mother house in a place called Mei-shan, in the rugged, towering mountains that run the entire length of this 230-mile-long island paradise. Mei-shan, which means Plum Mountain, was ten miles south of Touliu, as the crow flies.

1967, Gloria Joan Watts, chapter 2, in An American Nun in Taiwan, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36

Touliu is a medium-large city with plenty of traditional food stalls and modern fast-food restaurants.

1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike), The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 110–111

Touliu is a small city north of Chiayi. Although the town itself is hardly a tourist attraction, it is an important transit point for travellers heading to Tsaoling, one of Taiwan’s premier mountain resorts.

1994 July, Robert Storey, “West-Central Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 304, column 1

They soon pulled a 33-year-old man from inside a four-story chunk of building that had been compressed into 10 feet of rubble in the town of Touliu.

1999 September 25, Dirk Beveridge, “Elite US Rescue Team Leaving Taiwan”, in AP News, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2022