with encouraging results. This formed the nucleus of bean 
milling industry. Subsequently, those who interested 
themselves in this industry increased gradually. Then, as 
immigrants from Shantung began to pour in, the demand 
for Bean Oil steadily increased. With the increased pro- 
duction of Beans, the number of the mills, too, greatly 
increased. However, both Bean Cake and Bean Oil made 
from Beans were only for the consumption of the 
inhabitants, and what little surplus stocks were left were 
forwarded from Yingkou to South China. In those days, 
at Lisoyang, Yingkou, Mukden, and Tiehling, a number 
of small mills capable of turning out, say, 100 pieces a 
day lay scattered. Donkeys were pressed into service in 
the expressing of oil. Then, there was what is called the 
wedge system by which boiled Beans were compressed by 
means of a wedge. The milling industry still partook of 
4 primitive complexion. 
In those times, the mills aimed at obtaining Bean Oil. 
Bean Cake was regarded as a by-product good for a caltle- 
feed. As the mills grew in number, Bean Cake they 
manufactured proved more than meeting the local require- 
ments. It came at last to seek a market in Japan proper, 
styled Tiehling Bean Cake, Newchwang Bean Cake, and 
what not. 
In this manner, Manchurian Bean Cake came to find 
its way to a foreign market. 
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