Thus, Bean Oil has come into extens: but, #v 
the same time, is unsuited to turn out 8 first grade produdt 
in any line of utility, and in consequence. 1&- 
is subject to fluctuation according to the ow 
abroad. 
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Only, it has various advantagest. Firstly, Beans, as 
raw material, are quoted comparatively cheaply. Secondly, 
the cost of manufacturing Bean Oil is small. Thirdly, 
because of only a small amount of free fatty acid, Bean 
Oil can stand a long storage in the form of a crude oil, 
courthly, the demand for Bean Cake is enormous. 
For these reasons, Bean Oil reserves the room to 
regulate its own price by the oil market condition abroad. 
On this aceount, it has a possibility to get its demand 
abroad expanded year after year, keeping up the same 
tendency in the future. 
The major portion of Bean Oil now produced in Man- 
churia is shipped Europe and America was to the total 
amount of about 180,000 tons. Figuring the total ship- 
ments of Beans in the same dircetions at about 6,500,000 
“koku’’, which if totally employed as oil yielding material, 
will give about 120,000 tons of oil, making the aggregate 
consumption of Bean Oil in the West about 800.000 tons 
B year. 
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