AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES. 



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taken from Haberlandt's " Die Sojabohne." The last four origin- 

 ated with Mach ; IV., V., and VI., with Caplan ; I., with Senff. 



Analysis 11. was made by Levallois of the Inst. Agronomique in 

 Paris, and is taken from the "Revue horticole " ; III. is traceable 

 to Kinch, and is found in the " Transact. Asiat. Soc. of Japan," 

 viii., p. 398. 



Comparative Table of Analyses of Various Pulse. 



Of these analyses, I., IV., V., VI., VII., and VIII. are taken from 

 Haberlandt's ''Die Sojabohne ;" II., from Dwars in "Transactions 

 Ass. Soc. of Japan," vol. vi. ; III. was calculated after an analysis 

 of Kellner in Nobbe's '* Landwirthschaftliche Versuchsstationen," 

 vol. XXX., 1884; IX. is traceable to Wolff, and is taken from 

 Ollech's : " Die Riickstande der Oel-fabrikation," because it turns 

 out, through comparison with the soy-bean and the other starchy 

 leguminous plants, that fat represents, to a certain degree the 

 hydrates of carbon. 



(c) Starch-produci7ig Bulbs. 



Under this head we shall consider all of the so-called " Root- 

 crops " (yHackfriicJite) which are raised for the sake of their starchy 

 bulbs or roots, and also all uncultivated plants which in similar 

 manner are useful as food in Japan on account of their containing 

 starch ; hence all kinds of potatoes and their substitutes, called • 

 collectively Imo. The number of species in this group, and the 

 variety of its forms which are rich in meal and grow underground, 

 are greater than in most other countries. Undoubtedly the oldest 

 inhabitants of Japan derived an important food-supply from wild, 

 though often valuable, species ; but in the course of time there 

 was added to these a number of others, some from China, some 



