at a bound in reputation, steadily increasing in its export 
to Europe and America year after year, until they have 
become a valuable merchandise in world-wide demand. 
Taking note of this tendency, many Western countries 
experimented upon the cultivation of Beans at home and 
in the colonies, but none of them have yet risen above the 
experimental stage. The Bean outputs are still very 
trifling and, excepting the United States, no reliable statis- 
tics are available about Beans. 
We might now give a rough sketch of the leading Bean 
rentres: 
Taste (1) TENDENCY oF BEAN CULTIVATION AT CHIEF 
Bean CENTRES 
Outputs unit : 
1.000 koku 
Japan (Formosa 
excepted) 2,999 
Chosen (Korea) 
4.352 
Chief producing zones 
Most abundant in Hok- 
kaido, followed by the 
Northeastern Prefectures 
such as Iwate, Ibaraki & 
Saitama, Kagoshima & 
Kumamoto Prefectures 
coming next. 
From climatic and other 
considerations, Nrth Cho- 
sen is better suited to 
Bean cultivation than 
South Chosen, the outputs 
being correspondingly 
larger. 
Tendency of production 
Producing condition re- 
mains the same. Seen 
from a standpoint of 
area of cultivation, 
Bean raising considered 
as bumping its head 
against the blind wall. 
Gradual increase noticed 
by reclamation and im- 
provement of farming 
methods.