THE SOY BEAN FOE OIL AND OTHER PRODUCTS. 7 
Table IV. — Quantity and value of imports of soy beans, lean cake, and bean oil by 
European countries, 1912 to 1914, inclusive. * 
Product and country, 
Soy beans: 
United Kingdom. 
Germany 
Netherlands 
Russia 
Belgium 
Denmark 
France 
Total . 
Soy-bean cake: 
Netherlands. 
Germany . . . 
Russia 
Denmark . . . 
Sweden 
France 
Total . 
Soy-bean oil: 
Netherlands. 
Belgium 
Italy 
Sweden 
Austria 
Germany 
France 
Russia 
United Kingdom. 
Total . 
1912 
Quantity. Value, 
Tons. 
188, 760 
96, 068 
42, 373 
695 
1,625 
412 
329,933 
23,852 
7,080 
2, 059 
7,620 
4,051 
1,952 
4(1,614 
4,558 
2,083 
2,252 
1,116 
617 
10,902 
1,693 
23, 221 
$7, 630, 477 
3, 974, 837 
1,592,690 
30, 250 
61,095 
14,035 
13,303,384 
836, 269 
252, 912 
72, 136 
252, 834 
139, 391 
69, 367 
1913 
Quantity. Value 
Tons. 
76, 452 
107, 504 
27, 119 
267, 036 
6,438 
4,425 
34,318 
523, 292 
7,230 
3,260 
21,969 
15,490 
2,695 
400 
1,622, 
250, 422 
278, 569 
356, 006 
154,434 
99, 797 
,450,134 
249, 486 
2, 838, 848 
51,044 
2, 828 
363 
4,642 
578 
1,314 
3,090 
83 
5,150 
95 
18,143 
?3, 093, 863 
3,974,838 
1,019,317 
6, 461, 739 
199, 684 
115,975 
918, 008 
15, 783, 424 
250, 459 
111,015 
396, 944 
520, 857 
91,714 
14,016 
1,385,005 
154,691 
45, 389 
735, 490 
78, 491 
206, 078 
396, 032 
11,397 
508, 076 
11,570 
1914 
Quantity. Value 
Tons. 
71, 161 
12,843 
19,308 
1,002 
8,187 
112,501 
1,235 
1,201 
195 
4,964 
989 
230 
814 
10,015 
137 
5, 830 
313 
1,395 
2, 459 
4.",o 
$2,886,759 
480, 401 
725,721 
37,564 
357, 434 
4,487,879 
43,964 
41,258 
6,507 
164,332 
33,394 
7,903 
297,358 
547, 820 
16,957 
953, 403 
41,867 
224,565 
296, 966 
26,917 
48, 687 
2, 157, 182 
1 Compiled from Koninkryk der Nederlanden, Statistiek van den in-, uit- en doorvoer ; A nnual Statement 
of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions; Statistik des 
Deutschen Reichs, Auswartiger Handel. 
SOY BEANS IN THJE UNITED STATES. 
Although the soy bean was mentioned as early as 1804 x 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. 
The soy bean can be grown successfully on nearly all types of soil 
and has about the same range of climatic adaptation as varieties of 
corn. The cotton belt and the southern part of the corn belt are most 
favorably situated for the production of seed of this crop (fig. 2). 
The yields of seed to the acre in various sections of the United States 
range from about 15 bushels in the Northern States to about 40 bushels 
in the northern half of the cotton belt. The average yield in eastern 
i Willich, A. F. M. American Encyclopedia, 1st Amer. ed., v. 5, p. 13. Philadelphia, 1804. 
