The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-07
EXPERIMENT WITH
SOY BEANS SUCCESS
Oil and Meal Extracted BY New
Process at Elizabeth City
This Week
MAY MEAN MILLIONS
MAY MEAN MILLIONS
These Beans Thrive Especially
Well In Eastern North Caro-
lima and If Oil Is of Expected
Value 1t Will Bring Untold
Wealth To State-Soy Bean
Principal Food In Orient
(By $. CHAPLIN.)

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Elizabeth City, April Am expert
ment of much interest to oil men; and
n which may eventually result into
q big agricultural industry for East
ern North Carolina was conducted at
the plant of the Elizabeth City Oil
n Fertilizer Company this week.
n oil was extracted by a process
"hlch the eXperimenterS are keeping
a secret, from five bushels of soy
beans or stock peas and the expert
ment was regarded as being very sue
cessful. and those who watched the
process are very enthusiastic over the
prospects of future Developments
along his line.
Inc tVe bushels of beans were sep
arated into two products, oil and meal
ana an abundance Of oil was secured.
which Will be analysed. 1t is believed
that this oil will prove to be of a very
nigh grade and will have a great com
fnerciaI value, while the meal will be
capable OF being manufacture into
many useful articles of food for stock
II man. The success OF this ex-
pertinent Is especially gratifying to
the eXperimenters because a similar
one was made by another cotton oil
mill about two years ago and it prov
cd a failure, not enough oil being Sc
cureu To warrant the manufacture
OF the soy beans. Another gratifying
tning about the products of being
able to manufacture these beans.
there Is positively no waste in the
raw material, every particle of bean
DelnS manufactured into. either oil
or meal.
Prospects For Big Industry.
mere are great prospects for a big
industry in Eastern North Carolina
from Tho !, n n, p, r. -
as the soil of this part of the State is
especially adapted to their agricul-
ture. A large acreage is planted each
year. Five or six counties last wear
a crop estimated at a half
million of bushels. hi crop can be
increased until the yield will be sew
erai millions of bushels. The bean is
easy 10 cultivate and produces enor-
mously. being about the cheapest crop
that the farmer can raise, since the
recentl patented pea pickers have
made it possible to harvest large
quantities at a very small cost.
History Of the Soy Bean.
Inc soy bean or stock peas was in
into North Carolina about
twenty-five years ago. Farmers be-
San to plant them on a very small
scale, experimenting with them; for
their value as a foo product was
regarded with a great deal Of sus-
picion. But it was not long before il
was discovered hat live stock thrived
upon them and they were productive
or much meat. Then the rme be-
gan to increase their acreage, which
was for the most part fenced off and
led to the live stock. especially hogs
IN a green state. The green beans
were eaten, stalk and all, and they
made hogs grow II fatten into pork.
1he crop was cut in a dry
state and stored, being fed to the
stock during the winter. Only the
seed Tor the next years planting was
saved. This was done by threshing
out the beans with a pole. which was
a tedious and laborious process. at
tended with a great deal of cost.
Pea Pickcrs Invented.
ABOUT nve years ago.. the price of
soy beans began to increase and he
farmers found it very profitable to
gather them for market: but the la
borious and costly process by which
they were prepared for market great
ly handicapped the farmers and the
supply fell far short of the demand.
II was then that the inventive genius
of l.. S. Gordon and George Pritch-
ara. two progressive Pasquotank
county farmers. got to work and each
invented a pea picker on his own
plans, which solved the problem and
made the harvesting OF soy beans easy
n cheap.
II these experiments prove any,
thing as successful as the gentlemen
making them expect, the armer OF
this section will be given an unlim-
tied opportunity to engage il this in
dustry. which will mean millions for
them within the next few years.
China and Japan have grown the
SOY bean for ages and have invented
various processes by which the pro-
ducts are converted into food useful
to both mar ard beast, In these