1919, we learn that the export of all kinds of vegetable oil from China amounted in quantity to 4,433,000 piculs, and in value to 46 million taels, The most important kind vegetable oil is always bean oil being followed by groundnut, wool and cotton seed oil. In this a we will consider these one by one, except wood In Manchuria, including Tairen, we find most of the soya bean. oii mills in China. In Tairen alone there are about 70 mills, about 10 per cent. of which are under Japantaanageinents All' here. rull get their raw evil from the inner part of Manchuria, especially from C changchun.
The Japanese at yen are not so skilled as the Chinese in production, but they con-{rol the export of oil and soya bean from that seaport.
Shanghai Competing with Tairen.
Besides Manchuria, soya bean 18 also produced in Anhui, Honan and Kiangsu. While most of the soya bean produced in Manchuria manufactured or—exported Tairen, that from the other three outlet at Shang-Bean oil mills are scattered Il over Kiangsu and Anhui, as the ple there are accustomed to the use of this kind of oil. In the last few years three big bean oil mills have been established in Shanghai and there is reason to believe that in the near future Shanghai will he a position to compete with Tai-bean oil business.
cake i used as izar fort both in China and) Japan, while oil, besides being consumed in na, is exported to Europe and
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