in Japanese diet. It stands to reason that by reducing
Bean Cake to its original elements, the manufacture of
glutamic acid soda, that is ‘‘Aji-no-moto’’ is believed to
lie within a technical feasibility. The study to this end is
being taken up in various quarters, and it is nearing the
stage of an enterprise economically negotiable.

(6) ProrEIN PropUCTS MADE FROM BEAN CAKE

The manufacture celluloid substitutes as a satolite,
ete., nutrition and other protein products still belongs to
an experimental stage, and none of them has yet attained
a commercially negotiable stage. Nonetheless everyone of
them forms a subject of interesting study.

Chapter VI. Bean Milling in Manchuria

IRCTION I.—HOW IT STARTED & GREW

The industry to express oil from Beans originated in
China proper about 200-300 year ago. There used to be
practically no oil mills other than such as treated linseed
in’ Manchuria. About 60 years ago, about Tiehling and
Changchun, which were their important Bean centres, the
method of expressing oil from linseed was applied to Beans