THE SOYA BEAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 590, 16 February 1929, Page 27

THE SOYA BEAN

WORLD’S WONDER PLANT An agricultural l'eat of the utmost importance to farmers has now been successfully performed, states a writer in "Farmer and Stockbreeder.” This is the acclimatisation ot‘ the soya bean, and this year, for the first time, a fine crop has been grown for seed Purposes in England. The variety is a hybrid received in 1522 front Professor W. Soutliworth. trf Manitoba Agricultural College, Canada, and in the course of seven years' trials here has proved to be tot only the most reliable cropper, but the earliest of any of the 60 varieties of soya tested for growth in this country in the last 14 years. Sent to Messrs. Sutton for trial at Beading, it was sown on May 2 and harvested in the middle of September. The soya beau has been called the Wonder Bean of the World. It has more uses to its credit than any other legume or cereal. For human food provides milk (fresh, condensed or uryi. flour for bread or biscuits, margarine, cheese, a coffee substitute, infants' foods, custard powders, salad °n, and soya, the basis of most of our aauces. Commercially it is used for *°aps. paints, enamels, varnishes, "“” ca nts, printing inks, celluloid, rubber substitutes, and glycerine for fugh explosives. its Use for Stock t ". oc * i' >r stock the soya meal, or rh e ,* elt after the oil is extracted from e bean, has a value similar to lineed or cotton cake, in Canada, soya STeu or dried for hay is relished j ail classes of stock, and in feeding nr it * las **een found equal to clover; . a :‘ al f a > while the yield was one ami. times greater. Even the straw t after threshing is utilised as food tor dairy cattle. snv° U K Best of our cr °P plants, the j aftiin beau has a recorded history of ’ u years behind it in Manchuria, i , h er ® ft originated, and from which of V»ole world draws its supplies Bw ii l' as Proved itself the i aim tv ® cu lt °f plants to acclimatise, „ tae cultivation of the bean has; in icc)- macle mu ch headway in Europe, j of Zr: Germa ny imported 576,023 tons -°ya, our own country being thii I ton European nations with 53.12 i ! oil ° 0t and 53,525 tons of soya :

in H t , >| th . erto ' ve lla ve had no oil plant Pens 1S cou,l try and have been desupph!!! °', 1 , ° ther countries for our prnii,, ' s ' means of soya we can catu le . our own oil and provide oijine r.fl!' foo< l for our cattle, it is goish n • au enormous beueiit to Britagricuiture. Soya beans fetch to n the extracted oil £35 a for’fa j. tae residue made into cake Sovf, 1 " 6 Cattle £ll a ton. to Mi,.- one °f the easiest of plants ’ipon if Ta !T A rich soil is wasted ates it ,liie o,l 'er legumes, it crehe „ S | mtrogen by means of Hche, • ef! on lts roots, and cn*>il In 'llhtf,, of impoverishing the It grows.