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SOYA BEANS AS A POSSIBLE RflVAL 

 TO COCONUTS. 



The vaat area planted with " Manchurian 

 beans" in North-Eastern China and the conti- 

 guous portion of Siberia may in the future be 

 greater still. A new field for bean oil has been 

 found and the new factories in Mukden and 

 Dalny are now turning out very large amounts 

 of both laundry and toilet soaps. It is under- 

 stood that the Lever Bros., Ltd., of Port Sun- 

 light, England, will also establish a monster soap 

 factory at Kobe ; the only drawback thus far is 

 the lack of alkali in Japan and Northern China. 

 According to the Bureau of Manufactures of 

 the United States Department of Commerce 

 and Labour, the United States uses considerably 

 over P5,000,000 worth of bean oil annually. 



Soya oil affects the price of copra. Soya soap 

 relieves the over-production tendency of bean 

 oil and thus becomes a long distance enemy of the 

 Philippine coconut, although it directly assists 

 in a degree in keeping up the price of soya oil. 



The Soya has also found a new field in what 

 will probably be one of the best agricultural 

 regions for the culture of that famous legume in 

 the whole world. Instead of flax, which has 



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heretofore been grown for linseed in rotation 

 with wheat and maize, the soya will now be used 

 in Argentina both for its own oil and as a soil 

 restorer, thus increasing the fertility of the 

 fields. 



While the percentage ot oil in ordinary soya 

 runs from 16 to 20 per cent, some of the new 

 varieties which will be planted in the alluvial 

 plains of the Plate River will contain up to 23 

 per cent.— Philippine Agricultural Review. 



THE SAGO PALM. 



British North Borneo exports some Pesos 

 120,000 worth of sago annually, says the Philip- 

 pine Agricultural Review. The Agusan valiey of 

 Mindanao could undoubtedly export several 

 times this amount from the vast swamps filled 

 with the same species of sago palm which extend 

 across the Sulu Archipelago into Borneo, and 

 eastward to New Guinea. There is no doubt 

 that some day these swamps will be the scene of 

 great activity in the way of starch, sugar, and 

 alcohol manufacture. Sago flour, when properly 

 prepared, is an excellent food, and by fermenting, 

 alcohol can, of course, be made. Fortunately, 

 the sago palm produces itself from suckers as 

 soon as the old plant is felled; but unfortunately 



