At Dairen, in which extensive production is carried on upon an intensive system, the hydraulic presses are predominant. However, in the remote part of Manchuria, small mills will quite do, the products being only for local consumption, besides owing to the low degree of civilization, the installa ion of a modern equipment is sometimes rendered difficult, and since the obsolete wedge system entails but a light outlay, operated chiefly by manual labour on cheap-priced and, it will make the enterprise pay. This accounts for the retention of wedge-system mills in the outlandish diatriets. The mills of the screw system served for the transitory period from the native wedge system to the new hydraulic aystem. (2) BEeaAN REsipuEs COMPARED Round Cake (by hydraulic system), bean plate, and bean meal. We shall now give the quantities of the products obtained by the different systems, together with the ingredients of the bean residues obtained by the different system and their chief uses. 15