The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-12
SOY BEANS USEFUL CROP.
May Be Utilized in Greater Number Of
WAYS.

ways.
The soy bean, (which already Is one of tn
most important cash crops OF Asia am
which promises to take an importan
place in the agricultural industry o
the United States, may be utilized in |
greater number and greater variety
OF ways than almost any other agricul
tural product. The whole beans may b,
utilized for food as are the seeds o
other legumes, or the oil alone may bs
consumed, The oil resembles that Of
cotton,seed in many ways, but it it o.
a more pronounced drying character. III
addition to its availability as food
bean oil has found important user
in the markets of the world for making
paints, varnishes, soaps, rubber substl.
tutes, linoleum, waterproof goods, and
lubricants. 1t is also used in the Orient
for Lighting and in the manufacture OF
printing ink.
In Japan the soy bean forms one OF
the most important articles of food in
use 1t is one of the principal ingedi-
ents in the manufacture of shoyu tsoy
saucel, misc (bean cheese), tofu (bean
curdl, and natto (steamed beans). The
beans are eaten also as vegetable and
in soups; sometimes they are picked
green, boiled and served cold with soy
sauce, and sometimes as salad A
vegetable milk" is also produced from
the soy bean, forming the basis for the
of the different kinds of
cheese. This milk is used fresh
and form of condensed milk is manu-
featured from it. All OF these foodstuffs
are used daily in Japanese homes, and
for the poorer classes are the principal
source of protein.
The use of the meal remaining after
the oil is extracted from soy beans has
become an important factor in several
European countries during the last few
years, and to some extent in America,
as food of low starch content. Soy
beans contain at the most but slight
trace of starch, and extensive expert
nents in America and Europe indicate
he value of the bean and its products
Is the basis of foods for persons requir.
ng low starch diet. Soy bean flour
,nters largely as a constituent in many
If the so-called diabetic breads, bis
,uits, and crackers manufactured as food
'pecialties. The -four or meal can be
lsed successfully in the household as a
of mullins, bread, and bis
uits in much the way in which corn
neal is used.
Soy-Bean Milk.
An artificial milk like that manufac-
ured in the Orient has been produced in
mall quantities in the United States,
nd recently factory has been equipped
o make this product Such milk can be
sed for cooking in the household and
" bakers, eonfeetioners, and chocolate
If, however, the milk
rom the soy bean Is used in the manu-
acture of products as a substitute for
ailk, the labels of such products should |
Indicate that the substitution has been |
1ade: otherwise it would constitute |
under the food and drugs |
ct.
In addition to its uses for flour and |
lilk, the soy baen can be prepared as
uman food in numerous ways. The /
reen bean, when from three -fourths to I
all grown, has been found to compare /
lvorably with the butter or Lima bean.
he soy bean has been utilized not only /
/ the United States but in European
,untries as a substitute for the coffee
can. When roasted and prepared. it
lakes an excellent substitute for cot
,e. In Asia the dried beans, especially /
ne green seeded varieties, are soaked
salt water and then roasted, this prod
ct beng eaten after the manner of
pasted peanuts.
Stock Feed.
The value OF soy bean meal for produc.
" meat, milk, and butter is well es-
lblished. 1t is one OF the cheapest of
he highly heterogeneous feeding stuffs
al for balancing rations deficient in
trogen. Its use in America is confined
the present time almost entirely to
Ie Pacific states. where it is considered
valuable feed not only by dairymen
1T also by poultrymen. Owing to its
gh content of protein, the meal should
, used with the same precautions as
e observed with other highly concen-
ated feeds to avoid digestive troubles.
] regards digestibility, soy-bean meal
mpares favorably with other oil meals.
The utilization of soy bean meal for
rtilizing purposes has been confined
most entirely to Asiatic countries. Fol-
wing the recent production in the
uthern states of the bean cake and oil
ON American grown beans, however,
rtilizer manufacturers have taken an
tive interest in the fertilizing POSSIBLE
es of the meal Analyses by the Unit
States department of agriculture have
own that while soy-beau meal, like
tton-seed meal, has a high fertilizing
lue when applied directly, more eco
mical practice would be to feed the
cal to stock and apply the resulting |
anure to the soil. !
Soy-Bean Oil.
In the United States two methods of
tracing oil from soy beans-the hy-
aulic and the expeller processes-are
ed by oil mills, the latter producing
e highest yield. Extensive tests with
nestle beans indicate that one ton
seed will yield by the expelIer process
average of 80 gallons of oil and | 500
unds of meal, the difference tsbout
) pounds) representing the loss due to
aiming and the evaporation of moisture
wen off after the beans have been
lshed and heated.
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