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more or less smaller grains, the skin percentage is raised,
detracting so much from the real flesh amount. In
popularizing Manchurian Beans, nothing is more urgent
than the improvement and unification of the breeds.
At the S.M.R. Co. Agriculture Experiment Station,
Kungchuling (on the S.M.R. Main Line) the experts have
experimented upon the raising of Beans yielding more oil
and harvest besides grains of better appearance, and have
finally succeeded. Ssulihuang, acknowledged as a paragon
breed about Kungchuling was used as the base, and a
bechnical selection was carried out for producing a superior
breed in everv sense, the results being as under:

Per hector Harvests Oil percentage
harvest unit: compared
kilogramme
1,679

Original breed ... .. ...
‘Juichu” (Improved breed
87) an
‘Huangpaochu” (Tmproved
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1,857

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1.817 “JR

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The two mentioned improved breeds will give about
10 per cent more in harvest, besides about 8 per cent of
oll more than the original breed, further being of better
quality. By the side of the common breeds raised by the
ordinary Chinese farmers, 50-60 per cent increase is noted
in harvest.

The S.M.R. Co. has laid out a seed bean farm each
at ‘Changehuh and Kaiyuan to propagate the improved

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