Groundnut is produced in Shantung and recently also in Honan. At Tsitianfu, the capital of Shantung Province, a large quantity of groundnut is bought and sold each Taianfu and Tawenkow, both along the Tientsin-Pukou Line, are nother two business centres of round nat A forge number of tonese merchants stay at these for buying groundnut and ding it to Canton through Shanghai or Tsingtao. Instead of using bean oil for eating purpose. the people in the south use ground-nat oil, and this is the reason why many Cantonese merchants are engaged in groundnut oil business.
At Tsingtao there arz a number of groundnut oil mills managed by the Japanese. Of course, the Japsuese at Tsingtao as at Tairen have the control of oil business in their hands. They not. only export groundnut oil from their own mills at Tsingtao, but also export such oil as they can get from native mills in Shantung.
In 1919 two groundnut oil mills were opened in Shanghai. one of them being under Japanese management. For some time this mill was very prosperous. But finally it safe fered heavy loss and has had to be turned over to other people.
In Canton native groundnut oil mills are numerous. They extract oil for both native use and export tation. In these mills the machinery used consists of wooden frames.
Groundnut oil, as bean oil and cotton oil, which will be considered immediately, is mostly exported to Europe and Am and its cake exported to Japan to be used fertilizer. Last year a large quan tity of groundnut was exported to
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