MANCHURIAN BEANS

Chapter 1. How Sova Beans are Raised

SECTION T.—PEAN CULTIVATION IN THT WORLD

How MANCHURIAN BEANS STAND ON WORLD'S MARKET

Cochin China or thereabouts are inferred to have been
the place of origin to Manchurian Beans. Still, China
proper was the first place where Beans were grown as
agricultural produce. The time for the first cultivation is
supposed to have been about 4.000 vears back. In the

present day world, the chief Bean centres are Manchuria,
China, proper, Japan, and Chosen (Korea), all in the Orient.
In each country, Beans have been raised as a stavle foodstuff
 from ancient times.

Thus Beans grown specially as a food-stuff within the

bounds of the Orient. until, with the flourish of the industry
to obtain oil from Beans, etc., as modern science has
advanced, the utilities of Beans have come to be remarkably
enlarged as an industrial crop.
Since in 1908 Manchurian Beans were exported to
Europe as commodity through the Nibauls® hands. they rose