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varieties as a vegetable in the green pod and on a Held scale 

 when the ripe seeds are harvested. n H 



is a 



variety grown largely in Suffolk, the seeds of which are put up 

 into packets for sale as food. Pea canning is an important 

 industry in the United States and the refuse is recommended 

 there for forage. The Customs Returns (for 1913), as referring 

 ► to the two species, are given below; — British India (1077832), 



Germany (248942), New Zealand (208312), Netherlands(201062), 

 Eussia (173734), Japan (167104), Canada (6462), Australia 

 £6294), United States (3987), Belgium (1667), Chili (851), China 

 (168). The foregoing figures refer to whole peas, and in 



addition 



peas 



2. April, 1915, "Suggestions for the Cultivation of Catch 

 Crops and Home Grown Feeding Stuft's— Peas." pp. 29-30. 



3a. ]S T o. 28, 1916, p. 8, 



Glycine Soja, Sieb. # Zucc; Soy Bean, China Bean, Japan 



Pea, White Gram. &c. 



Annual, 1| to 4 ft. high. Imports for the present are pro- 

 hibited but the important sources are Russia (875526), China 



, Japan (43209) and also cultivated in India, America, 

 South Africa, and under experiment in several British Colonies, 

 Considerable interest has recently been taken in the cultivation 

 in England, but results of experiments made at Cambridge, 

 Midland Agricultural College, South Eastern Agric. College, 

 Wye, &c, go to show that no variety so far has been found that 

 can be relied on to produce seed here. The varieties tried (16), 

 of which there is a small sample of each iu the Kew Museum, 

 were obtained by the Board of Agriculture from North Japan 

 (Exj). Station, Hamadate village), together with samples of the 

 soil they grew in, for the purpose of inoculating the soil here. 

 Several Manchurian varieties have been tried with like result. 

 The variety u Early Tennessee/' grown at Wye College, Kent. 

 m 1910 is reported to have produced well-filled pods (2 seq., 

 March, 1916, p. 1287). Specimens of the plant of a North Man- 

 churian variety grown in Regent's Park were shown at the recent 

 food economy exhibition of the Ministry of Food at the Institute 

 of Hygiene (Nat. Food Jouin. March 13, 1918). The beans are 

 an important food in the East; used like peas in this country, 

 as a vegetable, in soups, &c. In Japan and China they are 

 largely used in the preparation of the sauce known commercially 

 as M Soy," and they make there a preparation used as a substi- 

 tute for milk, and from this a food product called u Tofu, 

 which in turn forms the basis of the bean cheeses of Japan. 

 The meal in this country is used in the manufacture of biscuits 

 and in making a bread for special use in diabetes; but the 

 principal use here is for the extraction of the oil of which the 

 beans contain about 18 per cent., suitable for soap-making and 

 in general as a substitute for cotton seed oil, the residue being 

 a valuable cattle feed. The plant is grown in the United States 

 as a forage crop — soiling, hay and ensilage. 



la. ix. 2 (1911), pp. 211-214. 



2. May, 1909, "Soy Beans," pp. 128-129; Dec. 1909. "The 



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