Show Increasing Demand Made for Soy Beans Call for Expansion of Production Production Production Pro Pro- in This Country Prepared by the United State Department of or AR Soy helm growing is n a branch of agriculture In which the national supply supply sup sup- ply does not meet t the demand W. W J. J Morse of t the United States Stales Department Depart ment anent of Agriculture pointed out to an Illinois audience nt ot the State Soy Bean nenn day celebration nt at Urbana In spite of the theer er very rapid spread of soybean soy culture In the United States hi lit recent years we ae Imported year ear about pounds ponds of so soy bean beon oil 43 43 pounds of nf bean roy cake and pounds of so soy beans heans These large Imports Import and the time Increasing utilization utilization of the crop Mr lr Morse said call for an nn expansion of bean soy 1 production production tion In our own country In the United States the Industry Is In Its Infancy rind although fo soy beans heans are ure lIse used primarily for forage our oil mills offer nITer an nn opportunity for a greater great great- reater reat- reat er production of seed In China the theo soy o bean Is primarily n a cash crop fOp It ItI ItIs Itis I Is used In ht ninny many food foo product and Isan is isan an part of the national diet In Manchuria ia which produces about 70 per per- percent cent lit of the world supply nf of f soy beans hans the crop lOP occupies about L' L per pcr I r cent of If the rhe cultivated ulti area aren producing on on the era u average e about halt half n o ton to the acre That the Department of Agriculture Is doing oln Its share In promoting so soybean soy bean henn culture Is reflected In the fact that one of ur Its n agricultural explorers In China Chinn obtained approximately 2000 Introductions of seed which are nrc helf being tried out h by the government go with promising results |