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This opened a new field of utility all at.once. Subsequently
as a market for Beans and Bean Cake was exploited in
Europe and America, Beans and their products, viz., Bean
Cake and Bean Oil, have been raised to their present high
level as merchandise in world-wide request.
Thus, that Manchurian Beans as an export and as oilyielding
 agent, increased in production and have come to
oceupy their present place, dates back only from only 20
to 30 vears.

Manchurian Beans have attained the present popularity
by passing through such channel.

In order to explain how Manchurian Beans could make
such rapid development, rising, as if at a wave of the magic
wand, to acquire a world-wide, significance as a commodity,
we must set forth how Manchuria fulfils to a T the following
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(1) Manchuria, while possessing a vast area for cultivation,
holds extensive wasteland awaiting reclamation at a rapid
pace year after year.
2) The climate and soil of Manchuria suiting Bean cultivation
sxcellently, the Bean production is comparatively larger
shan elsewhere.
From. the consideration of maintaining the soil power and
also of crop-raising by rotation, Bean cultivation is indispensable
 in Manchuria.
Through the South Manchuria Railway and the Chinese
Rastern Railway serving as the trunk carriers, the transportation
 of Beans in a large amount at a time is made
easily possible.