SOJA BEAN.

Patea Mail, 26 April 1882, Page 4

SOJA BEAN.

Tlio following particulars concerning the value of the “-Soja Bean ’’have recently appeared in a Southern journal : For centuries these heavy podded beans have fed the millions of Eastern Asia, and they arc now favorite food in Southern Europe. The plant grows shrubby' here and three feet high. The pod never drops its beans on the field. No oilier leguminous plant bears beans of such tasteful, healthy and nutritious qualities, in which the straw participates largely as fattening food for cattle. Analysis finds in Soja beans 34£ per cent, of albuminous element, and 184 per cent of fat, while horse beans show only 25 and 1£ per cent, respectively, and maize contains 10£ and 4£ per cent. only. As an alternative crop the Soja bean will prove a blessing and a restorative to the soil anywhere.

A postmaster asking the cause of a disagreeable smell, the facetious office-boy replied “Perhaps it comes from the dead letters.” Insanity lakes queer freaks. Recently an up-country editor suddenly became possessed with the idea that he was a sew ing society, and the paper be got out the next day brought him a libel suit from every family in town.