Considerable Damage Caused by Recent Downpours Dairen, June 23.
Despite rosy prospects of wheat eultivation in. Manchoukuo, foreigners fare generally of the opinion " that Manchoukuo will fare better sticking to fis soya bean, It Is not altogether tan opinion interested in keeping the door here open for foreign wheat fand flour, Yet alone for other Austra-Han commodities. Further, it is not the view of foreigners alone, for a number of Manchoukuo—offcials are: known 40 share tke observation.
"No matter what the demand for wheat In Japan and Manchoukuo," a foreign importer told me, "it must always be remembered that wheat an be raised in more places in this world than can soya beans. The whole world can always be supplied with all the wheat it needs. The same Is not true of soya beans. These beans can grow only in certain re~ gions, and Manchoukuo is one of the best, That Is why it would be a shame if valuable soya bean fields are transformed into wheat lands_mevely to Keep out foreign wheat. "Further, Itty not good business, for soya beans are to Manchoukuo a greater source of income than wheat will ever be."
Pleking up a pencil, w fountain-pen, 8 paper-weight and pointing to furniture, he explained: "All these things can be made from soya beans!" The amazing potentialities of tke tiny grain were further revealed when he pointed out that the bean has hundreds of other by-products. "And,"
concluded with a magnificent ture, "it you want the most delicious beef-steal, make it out of soya beans!"
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