GLYC1NE 



SOJA GLASS WORKS AND TRADE 



So yBean 



glass on a scientific basis have been made ; of one of the last, an account is given 

 in The Times of India (Oct. 22, 1903). The greatest difficulty is perhaps the 

 apparent absence of a suitable sand for fusing purposes, within easy reach of the 

 trade centres, and of the fuel and other essential materials. 



Trade. Trade in Glass. The total IMPORTS into India of glass and glassware 



of all kinds, including Government stores, were in 1876-7 valued at 

 Rs. 29,45,091 ; twenty years later (1896-7) they stood at Rs. 72,25,918. 

 For the five years ending 1906-7 they were as follows : 1902-3, 

 Rs. 96,15,634 ; 1903-4, Rs. 1,01,17,065 ; 1904-5, Rs. 1,14,21,397 ; 1905-6, 

 Rs. 1,14,79,658; and 1906-7, Rs. 1,22,75,725. The analysis of the com- 

 mercial returns (1905-6) might be given as follows : 13,769,052 superficial 

 feet of sheet and plate glass, valued at Rs. 12,44,884; 22,520 cwt. of beads 

 and false pearls, valued at Rs. 24,02,442 ; 65,785 cwt. of bottles, valued 

 at Rs. 6,50,645; bangles, Rs. 42,78,558 ; lamp- ware, Rs. 6,94,138; other 

 miscellaneous glassware, Rs. 28,43,441 ; Government stores, Rs. 1,61,677. 



Headings. The sheet and plate glass came chiefly from Belgium and the United 



Kingdom ; the beads from Italy, Austria, Germany and the United 

 Kingdom ; the bottles from the United Kingdom and Germany ; bangles 

 from Austria-Hungary ; lamp-ware from Germany, Austria- Hungary 

 and the United Kingdom ; and the other wares from Austria-Hungary, 

 the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany. Bangles and lamp-ware 

 were returned for the first time in 1905-6. In the same year the EXPORTS 

 (Indian produce) amounted to Rs. 98,029. Bombay exported the largest 

 amount, viz. Rs. 89,177, and the chief market was Persia, followed by 

 Turkey-in-Asia, Arabia, Ceylon, Aden and the United Kingdom. 



\Cf. Buchanan-Hamilton, Journ. Mysore, etc., 1807, i., 147-51 ; iii., 369-73 ; 

 Monographs, Pottery and Glassware : Halifax, Panjab, 1890, 23, 24-7 ; Taw 

 Skein- Ko, Burma, 1894, 5, 13 ; Maconochie, Bombay, 1895, 8-9 ; Mukharji, 

 Bengal, 1895, 10-11 ; Dobbs, U. Prov., 1895, 29-35, 41-4; Tilly, Glass Mosaics 

 of Burma, 1901 ; Agri. Ledg., 1901, No. 13, 446-7 ; 1902, Xo. 5, 125 ; Madras 

 Weekly Mail, Oct. 1, 1903, 365 ; Pioneer Mail, Oct. 2, 1903, 24 ; Watt, Ind. Art 

 at Delhi, 1903, 76, 96-7 ; Holland, Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind., 1905, xxxii., pt. 1, 109-10.] 



D.E.P., GLYCINE SOJA, Benth., Journ. Linn. Soc., viii., 266 ; Kew 



iii., 509-12. R epL} X882, 42-3 ; Prain, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1891, Ixvi., 403-4 ; 

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Soy Bean, 



Cultiva- 

 tion. 



Fi Upper Gang p^ 232 ; . hispida, Maxim., Duthie and Fuller, 

 Field and Gard. Crops, 1893, pt. iii., 3, t. 85 ; LEGUMINOS^. (Following 

 the suggestion made by Prain, the above name had better be adopted 

 for the cultivated plant and G. ussm-imsi*, Regel & Maack, for the wild, 

 which = G. Soja, Sieb. & Luce.). The Soy Bean ; in Indian vernaculars, 

 bhat, ram, gari-kulay, hendedisom horec, pond disom, an-ing-kiyo, tzu-dza, 

 bhatnas, seta, musa, khajuwa, etc. 



A sub-erect or creeping annual native of China, Cochin-China, Japan 

 and Java, comparatively recently introduced into India, though recorded 

 as acclimatised and even seen as an escape from cultivation. It might, 

 in fact, be described as extensively cultivated, though more as a garden 

 than a field crop ; is especially prevalent in Eastern Bengal, Assam (Barpeta 

 Sub-division), the Khasia hills, Manipur, the Naga hills and Burma. It is 

 not infrequent in the plains of India proper, especially in Busti, Gorakhpur, 

 Patna and Purnea, etc. In Bombay and Madras, however, the Soy 

 Bean has apparently hardly passed the experimental stage. 



Cultivation. Two chief varieties occur, one called white, the other black. 

 On the plains it is generally grown by itself as a kharif (autumn) crop. The seeds 

 are sown from June to September, and harvested from November to December. 

 They should be placed at a depth not exceeding 1 to H inches, and 18 plants 



