Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-20
WOMAN OFF TO CHINA
TO STUDY SOY BEAN
DR.. Kin Will Make Report For United States on
the Most Useful Food of Her
Native Land

get much exercise Is considered a
rather heavy food. Furthermore
pork and beans as fed to the men
in the United States Army and Navy
become monotonous after awhile,
even though the addition of the car
bon contained in the shape of pork
fat makes such a meal possess every
element necessary to sustain life.
But human nature is about the
same everywhere. and the Chinese
don't care for a monotonous bean
diet any more than other people. So
they have taken this soy bean and
managed to invent a great many
kinds of products. The bean curd is
a food made from pulverizing the
beans into a flour and then boiling
this milk-like concoction, letting the
curd rise to the top as your grand
mothers in this country made cottage
cheese. 1 spoke of totu-this Is 1t.
Nothing is wasted, nothing lost, in
China. Most of these soy bean prod
ucts, popular from ancient times, are
fermented. The call walls and other
carbohydrate materials are broken
down, the cell contents rendered
more readily digestible, and peculiar
and pleasant flavors developed.
Soup noodles are made out of
bean curd. Entrees made of bean
room sauce or hot Spanish tomato
sauce. A salad of bean sprouts, ac-
companied by cheese--the cheese a
| cross between Camembert and Rogue
fort, and made from the soy beam
Is very nutritious end palatable.
Americans do not know how to use
the soy bean. 1t must be made at
tractive or they will not take to it.
| 1t must taste good. That can be
| i L. "A ~ Il E..I
chocolate pudding. A black soy bean
| sauce we use as a foundation for
sweetmeats in China. The soy bean
contains practically TO starch, which
means that it is a most desira BILE food
for diabetes, and also, OF course, for
vegetarians. Buddhists kill no anil
mals-they thrive by making a
speciality of the soy bean, which, by
the way. is already being used in the
French army. They find there that
soy bean mixed with flour makes a
good cracker, more nourishing than
any other cracker.
"In some things We Chinese have
far outstripped you. We have vast
areas of swamps, and we have made
them wonderful in their productive
power. The first requisite of life is
food, which, throughout the same
zone all over the world, is practically
the same. You have vast areas Of
swamp lands and permit them to lie
waste. We are showing the United
States, right now. how 1t can make
semiarid regions yield. l came here
once for the particular purpose of
getting American corn with which
hoped might improve the Chinese
corn. I found 1t not much better
than our own.
THE soy bean thrives best under
conditions favorable TO corn culture,
and on soils of medium texture we'll
supplied with potash phosphoric
acid and lime; also 1t gives good re-
turns on light, poor soils. IL planted
for hay or fodder the seed Is sown
broadcast or closely in drills in the
spring when the soil is thoroughly
warmed; If for the beans, in drills
about three feet apart and cultivated
like corn. Soy bean hay cut in sea-
son and we'll cured has a high feed
ing value. The seed, being q concen-
trated feed, is usually ground and
mixed with other fodder. Fed alone
or with other materials. the meal is
quite thoroughly digegted; expert
ntents with sheep showed that 81 per
cent. of the protein and "a per cent.
of the total organic matter was as
simulated. Similar values of the seed
were 81 and 85 per cent. The seed
is aslo an important source of oil,
and the seed cake, a by-product in
making oil. Is valuable feeding
stuff. The name Soy is from the
Japanese word 'shoyu,' a food pre-
pared from the seeds.
"A soy bean patch. therefore, Is