than in Japan, a feature very advantageous from a general 
agricultural point of view. 
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Supposing seed Beans are sown in April, they will 
germinate in the latter part of the same month, growing 
in May and June. The zenith of growth will be attained 
in July and August, to ripen perfectly in September and 
October when the weather usually continues fine with dry 
air and falling temperature. 
Thus, the temperature of Manchuria suits Bean culti- 
vation excellently. The severe cold in winter, instead of 
doing harm to the Bean cultivation, serves, on the contrary, 
to prevent the appearance of infects’ ravages. 
Precipitation: In May, in which the Beans germinate, 
there is a small precipitation, the driest season of the year. 
This point somewhat makes against the Bean cultivation 
but all that is required in this connection is to make the 
soil retain sufficient moist for the seeds to germinate, and 
is better than excessive rain and wet with unseasonable 
temperature. 
July and August, in which the temperature is the 
highest and the growth is the most accelerated, happen to 
be the rainy season in Manchuria, the precipitation for the 
two months making up the bulk of the total annual rainfall. 
In September and October, the precipitation suddenly falls 
down, with a continuation of fine weather that facilitates 
the ripening process of the Beans.