Java belong to the fiscal year 1825; those for U.8.A. refer to 1922 
(subsequent statistical figure for U.S.A. are unavailable, except that 
no remarkable change has apparently taken place; as to Manchuria, 
the vgures have been inferred by the author only lately, based upon 
those for the fiscal year 1426. 
The aggragated total Bean outputs in ths chief centres of the 
world ave roughly estimated at 56,000,000 ‘“‘kokun’’ which figure may 
represent also the gross total outputs of the world. inclusive of the 
ather countries than above mentioned. 
Of the above total, Manchurian Beans take up about 
33,000,000 “‘koku’’ being over 50 per eent and almost 60 
per cent of the aggregate total. The tendency of increasing 
production being quite pronounced in Manchuria, what an 
overwhelming influence Manchurian Beans hold on the 
world’s market may be easily understood. 
SECTION 1I.—-HOW MANCHURIAN BEANS ARE 
RAISED 
(a) IncrEASED PRODUCTION OF MANCHURIAN BEans 
As already hinted, there is no definite tracing of Bean 
cultivation to its undisputed origin. They seem, however, 
to have been imported from Central China. In old days, 
Beans were grown merely as a food-stuff, but about 70 
years ago, they came to be used at Bean mills for oil-giving 
agent, attended with gradual increase in production. How- 
aver, the demand for Beans was still confined to the local 
Jistrict. Immediately after the Sino-Japanese War, (1894- 
1805). Beans and Bean Cake began to be exported to Javan.