OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1913. 71 



36829 to 36840. 



From Pying Yang, Chosen (Korea). Presented by Mr. Charles L. Phillips, 

 Presbyterian Mission. Received December 10, 1913 

 Quoted notes by Mr. Phillips. 



36829 to 36837. Soja max (L.) Piper. Soybean. 



{Glycine hispida Maxim.) 



"The soy bean in Korea is usually sown in the fields with millet. In the 

 early spring, after the millet has reached the height of 2 or 3 inches, the beans 

 are dropped in between the hills of the grain, all of which is sown in rows and 

 cultivated with the Korean ox plow. Beans of this kind produce best in heavy 

 clay soil rather than in light, stony ground. These beans serve as food for man 

 and beast and are used most extensively throughout this whole northern 

 country. For man, bread and cake are baked with these beans, a sloppy cereal 

 dish is cooked, and, of course, everywhere soy is made. Especially with the 

 yellow varieties, bean sprouts are grown during the winter, which furnish a 

 fresh vegetable dish for the people at a time when green things are scarce. The 

 beans are put in an earthen dish and daily sprinkled with water and kept in the 

 warm living room of the house, where they are quickly sprouted and send 

 long shoots out from the dish. These sprouts are a great relish. They are boiled 

 and eaten with rice and millet. For fodder, the beans are fed in the pod to the 

 cattle and horses, but in cold weather are most often boiled and fed as a hot 

 mash." 



36829. "No. 1. Yellow. This is the most common of all soy beans in 

 Korea." 



36830. "No. 2. Small yellow." 36831. "No. 3. Black." 



36832. "No. 4. Green. These beans are also roasted and popped like 

 our pop corn or bike roasted chestnuts. A great favorite among the 

 Korean children." 



36833. "No. 5. Brown. Rarely grown in northern Korea." 



36834. "No. 6. Brown and black." 



36835. "No. 7. Black and yellow." 



36836. "No. 8. Mottled green and black." 



36837. "No. 9. Black with white spots. Called sometimes in this 

 province 'widowers' beans.'" 



36838 to 36840. Phaseolus angularis (Willd.) W. F. Wight. 



Adzuki bean. 



36838. "Gray mottled. Long pods, with seven or eight beans in one 

 pod. Used extensively in northern Korea. Boiled and eaten as a 

 cereal. Planted with millet; yields best in heavy loamy soil." 



36839. "Yellow. Long pods, with seven or eight beans in one pod. 

 Used extensively in northern Korea. Boiled and eaten as a cereal. 

 Planted with millet; yields best in heavy, loamy soil." 



36840. " Red. Soap is made from this variety." 



