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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” (Tmprov- 
ed breed 4 
1,857 
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21.16 
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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