THE VARIETIES OF SOY BEANS FOUND IN 



BENGAL, BIHAR AND ORISSA, AND THEIR 



COMMERCIAL POSSIBILITIES* 



E. J. WOODHOUSE, m.a., f.l.s., 

 Economic Botanist to the Government of Bihar and Orissa : 



AND 



C. SOMERS TAYLOR, b.a., 



Agricultural Chemist to the Government oj' Bihar and Orissa. 



1 .—INTRODUCTORY. 



In 1909 the survey work on the crops of Bengal was com- 

 menced, and in July of that year a number of trial plots of the 

 chief pulse crops of the Province were sown for identification 

 and field study. Among these were three samples of Bhetmas, 

 of which one sample of black seeded Bhetmas, received from the 

 Settlement Officer, Bhagalpur, was found to be pure for seed 

 characters and was sown as P. R. 135 ; the other sample which 

 had been collected locally was found to contain chocolate and 

 yellow seeds, and the two types were sown separately as P. R. 

 94 and P. R. 95. All the plots did well and were identified as 

 varieties of the Soy Bean, but in October it became apparent 

 that the black seeded type differed from the other two in having 



* This paper was prepared for the Press in March 11)12, but owing to the absence of one 

 of the authors in England and to other causes its publication has been delayed. 



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