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and shipments of it will commence in December. This year 

 the first shipments reached this country about the end of 

 February. Three qualities of these are now imported : the 

 Sakura, which are said to be the best, being shipped from 

 IJalny, the Harbin from Yladivostock, and the Hankow from 

 Shanghai. 



These beans have been used as a food for milch cows and for 

 human consumption in China and Japan for a considerable 

 time, and have there a high reputation as a feeding stuff. 

 The beans now being imported into this country are a light 

 yellow in colour, and are about the size of ordinary peas. In 

 the United States black, green, and brown beans are known, 

 as well as the yellow variety, and there the soy bean is largely 

 used as a hay and forage, as well as a seed crop. 



Professor Henry, of Wisconsin, in his book on Feeds and 

 Feeding, states that at the Massachusetts Experiment Station 

 a comparative test of soya bean meal with cotton seed meal 

 terminated in favour of the former for milk and butter pro- 

 duction. 



Soya or soja meal is being sold in this country, which is 

 soya beans from which the greater part of the oil has been 

 extracted. This may contain as little as 1*5 per cent, of oil, 

 while the albuminoids and other constituents are consequently 

 increased. 



Soya cake is now sold in the Newcastle district at about 

 6 15s. to 7 a ton. From the results of the foregoing trials 

 and the analysis of the cake it seems to be a moderately-priced 

 food when compared with the prices of other foods at the 

 present time. 



The expressed oil is used for edible purposes and soap- 

 making. 



