Soya Factory at Shield-hall Ready to Operate Soya beans are now being unloaded at Shieldhall docks to serve as the raw material for an important new industry for Clydeside.
Shortly the Clyde Soya Factory, Lid, wil start grinding the beans, "which are imported from Manchuria, at newly constructed premises on a site alongside Shieldhall dock, for the production of oils and of soya mical for stock feeding, states the "Glasgow Herald."
These may seem prosaic purposes of manufacture compared with some Gt the magical channels into which Mr. Henry Ford intends to direct the humble soya bean. Only recently Mr. H. G. Wells declared that Mr. Ford informed him that he intends soon to make his motor cars from soya beans.
If motor cars upon the scale of production associated with the Ford works can be produced from beans the nursery tale of Jack's misadventure in parting with his mother's cow for a bagful of beans does not look so fanciful after all. The credibility of the story of how these beans led Jack to fortune would appear to depend upon the variety of the beans.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.