Table IY.- 



THE SOY BEAN FOR OIL AND OTHER PRODUCTS. 7 



-Quantity and value of imports of soy beans, bean cake, and bean oil by 

 European countries, 1912 to 1914, inclusive. ^ 



Product and countrj-. 



1912 



1913 



1914 



Quantity. 



Value. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



Soy beans: 



United Kingdom 



Tons. 



188, 760 



96. 068 



42:373 



■ 695 



1,625 



412 



$7, 630, 477 



3, 974, 837- 



1,592,690 



30, 250 



61,095 



14, 035 



Tons. 



76, 452 



107, 504 



27, 119 



267, 036 



6,438 



4,425 



34,318 



,13,093,863 



3,974,838 



1,019,317 



6,461,739 



199, 684 



115,975 



918, 008 



Tom. 

 71, 161 

 12,843 

 19,308 



$2, 886, 759 



Germany 



480, 401 





725, 721 









1,002 

 8,187 



37,564 





357, 434 

















Total 



329,933 



13,303,384 



523, 292 



15, 783, 424 



112,501 



4,487,879 





Soy-bean cake: 



Netherlands 



23, 852 

 7,080 

 2,059 

 7,620 

 4,051 

 1,952 



836, 269 

 252, 912 



72, 13G 

 252, 834 

 139, 391 



69,367 



7,230 

 3,260 

 21,969 

 15,490 

 2,695 

 400 



250, 459 

 111,015 

 396,944 

 520, 857 

 91,714 

 14,016 



1,235 



1,201 



195 



4,964 



989 



230 



43,964 



Germany 



41,258 



Russia 



6,507 



Denmark 



164, 332 



Sweden 



33, 394 





7,903 





Total 



46,614 



1,622,909 



51,044 



1,385,005 



8,814 



297,358 







Soy-bean oil: 



Netherlands 



4,558 

 2,083 

 2,252 

 1,116 

 617 

 10,902 

 1,693 



250, 422 

 278,569 

 356, 006 

 154, 434 

 99, 797 

 1,450,134 

 249, 486 



2,828 



363 



4,642 



578 



1,314 



3,090 



83 



5,150 



95 



154,691 



45, 389 

 735,490 



78, 491 

 206,078 

 396, 032 



11,397 

 508, 076 



11,570 



10,015 



137 



5,830 



313 



1,395 



2,459 



208 



547, 820 



Rplfinm 



16, 957 



Italy 



953,403 

 41, 867 





Austria 



224,565 





296, 966 



France 



26, 917 







United Kingdom 







455 



48,687 











Total 



23, 221 



2, 838, 848 



18, 143 



2,147,214 



20,812 



2,157,182 



' Compiled from Koninkryk der Nederlanden, Statistiek van den in-, uit- en doorvoer; Aimual Statement 

 of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions; Statistik des 

 Deutschen Reichs, Auswartiger Handel. 



SOY BEANS IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Although the soy bean was mentioned as early as 1804 ^ it is only 

 within recent years that it has become a crop of importance in the 

 United States. At the present time the soy bean is most largely 

 grown for forage. In a few sections, such as eastern North Carolina, 

 however, a very profitable industry has developed from the growing 

 of seed. The large yield of seed, the ease of growing and harvesting 

 the crop, the value of the beans for both human and animal food, and 

 the value of the oil all tend to give this crop a high potential im- 

 portance and assure its greater agricultural development in America. 



Tiif soy })f'Hn can be grown successfully on nearly all types of soil 

 and has abf)ut the same range of climatic a(hi,ptation as varieties of 

 corn. The cotton belt and the southern part of tlic! corn belt are most 

 favorably sifuulcfl for th(^ production of seed of this crop (fig. 2). 

 The yields of seed to the acre in various sections of the United Stat(^s 

 rangf! from about 1 5 bushels in the Northern States to about 40 bushels 

 in tlu; northern half of the cotton belt. The average yield in eastern 



• Wllllch, .\. V. M. AmrTlciin F,nfyclope<llii, 1st Amer. e<l., v. r,, p. 13. I'liilmlolpliiu, isoi. 



