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 countries,
 in which they originated. Generally speaking, local
need was satisfied. Since a new demand has been opened
 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 Manchurian
 Beans was inferred at about 82,400,000 ‘‘koku’’
in 1926. The local consumption in Manchuria consists of

1A