making more harm than good. At present, in most cases,
Bean Cake is employed as manure, or Beans or Bean Cake
is given the domestic animals as feed. and their droppings
are used as manure, Beans being seldom employed as such.
(4) As Oil Producing Material: As chemical indust-
ries of all sorts have developed lately, the Bean milling
industry has grown steadily, and what is used for milling
materials now surpasses the amount of what is consumed
as food-stuff. In fact, more than half the total production
of Beans is turned to this line of use, owing to there
existing an extensive demand for Bean Cake and Bean
Oil, the chief products of the mills.
Thus, Beans have risen above being an article of food
and a cattle feed at the homes of natives in the Oriental
countries, becoming a popular food-stuff and an industrial
material (principally for yielding oil) of world-wide signifi-
cance. Especially as an industrial material, the future of
Manchurian Beans promises tremendous possibilities be-
cause of their fulfilment of the undermentioned require-
ments :—
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(by expression
and
hy extraction)
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