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 food- 
stuff 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