than in Japan, a feature very advantageous from a general
agricultural point of view.

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Supposing seed Beans are sown in April, they will
germinate in the latter part of the same month, growing
in May and June. The zenith of growth will be attained
in July and August, to ripen perfectly in September and
October when the weather usually continues fine with dry
air and falling temperature.

Thus, the temperature of Manchuria suits Bean cultivation
 excellently. The severe cold in winter, instead of
doing harm to the Bean cultivation, serves, on the contrary,
to prevent the appearance of infects’ ravages.
Precipitation: In May, in which the Beans germinate,
there is a small precipitation, the driest season of the year.
This point somewhat makes against the Bean cultivation
but all that is required in this connection is to make the
soil retain sufficient moist for the seeds to germinate, and
is better than excessive rain and wet with unseasonable
temperature.
July and August, in which the temperature is the
highest and the growth is the most accelerated, happen to
be the rainy season in Manchuria, the precipitation for the
two months making up the bulk of the total annual rainfall.
In September and October, the precipitation suddenly falls
down, with a continuation of fine weather that facilitates
the ripening process of the Beans.