THE SALICYLIC ACID REACTION OF BEANS ^ 



By Harvey C. Brill 



(From the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



One of the most important economic plants with which man 

 has to deal is the bean. It belongs to a group of plants called the 

 pulse family, which contains members varying in size from the 

 low annual plant to the tall broad-spreading tree. The bean 

 is especially important since it not only furnishes food for man 

 and beast, but enriches the soil in which it grows by taking 

 nitrogen from the air and converting it into . compounds avail- 

 able for plant growth. The Chinese and Japanese have recog- 

 nized this fact from time immemorial, and their culture of the 

 soy bean (Glycine hispida) has assumed large proportions. The 

 shipments of dry beans from Manchuria are given in Table I. 



Table I. — Shipments of dry beans from Manchuria,, 



1909 

 1910 

 1911 



Tons. 



1,470,870 

 1,200,000 

 1,500,000 



* Address, Soya bean oil as paint materials, by Maximilian Toch. 



During the fiscal year 1914 there were imported into the Phil- 

 ippine Islands the quantities of beans recorded in Table II. 



Table II. — Dry beans im,ported into the Philippine Islands during 19H.* 



Country. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



Kilos. 



Per cent. 



Pesos.b 



1 

 Per cent. 



China - 



1,763,015 



601,022 



113,409 



416,805 



4,964 



63.00 

 17.90 



4.05 

 14.85 



0.20 



131,272 



64, 146 



30,560 



86.904 



1,462 



41.70 

 20.40 



9.70 

 27.65 



0.60 







United States - - „ 



All others . — . 



Total - 



2.798,215 





314.344 











» Report, Philippine Bureau of Customs for 1914. 



f" One peso Philippine currency equals 100 centavos, equals 60 cents United States currency. 



China leads in the sales of beans in the Islands, followed by 

 the United States and by Japan. Practically 60 per cent of 



* Received for publication November 1, 1915. 



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