Bean breeds. The results have been very satisfactory. 
The amount of improved breeds that were put on the market 
at the above mentioned two centres during 1927 were 
roughly 10,000 tons. Indications are that the figure will 
rise at a rapid pace year after year. 
Chapter Il. World Wide Demand for Manchurian Beans 
Beans were used principally as a food stuff and cattle 
feed, and its demands were confined to the Oriental count- 
ries, in which they originated. Generally speaking, local 
need was satisfied. Since a new demand has been open- 
ed for Beans in recent years as an oil-giving agency, their 
consumption has been remarkably enlarged, rising, almost 
at a bound, to a world-wide category. Thus, Manchuria 
that puts out more than half the Bean production of the 
world has become the central supplier of Beans on earth, 
practically controlling the market. 
SECTION I.—DISTRIBUTION OF BEANS IN 
MANCHURIA 
As already mentioned, the total production of Man- 
churian Beans was inferred at about 82,400,000 ‘‘koku’’ 
in 1926. The local consumption in Manchuria consists of 
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