Word: soybeanization
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...Beans Set Pace for Chicago Grains," headlined the New York Times one day last week, marking another new high for the most fantastic legume since Jack & the beanstalk. In 1917 the U.S. produced only 1,000,000 bushels of soybeans, in 1923 only 6,541,000; but last week crop experts foresaw a harvested soybean crop of 110,000,000 bushels-plus perhaps as much again that will be plowed under as fertilizer, used as pasturage, cured as hay or stored as silage. Next year the U.S. may well overtake Manchukuo (140,000,000 bu.) as the No. 2 soybean...
Since this year's low, soybean prices have risen 75% to $1.70 a bushel, despite the record crop. Chief reasons: 1) demand for soybean oils in Lend-Lease's fats-for-Britain program; 2) low cotton-crop estimates foreshadow a low production of cottonseed oils. As a cash crop soybeans this year will almost equal potatoes, surpass citrus fruits, surpass in fact any other crop except the big four, cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco...
Shen-Nung and Captain Mease. Biggest soybean wonder is not its dizzy upward climb among U.S. crops but the late start it got. Botanists and chemists call it the world's most all-round useful crop. Yet its widely publicized new industrial uses still consume only about 2% of the U.S. crop, most of which will go for purposes known to the Chinese as far back as 2838 B.C., when it was called China's greatest legume in a materia medica written by the Emperor Shen-Nung ("The Heavenly Farmer...
...century before U.S. farmers took even a faint interest in them, the first soybeans were brought to this country by an amateur horticulturist named Dr. James Mease. "The soybean is adapted to Pennsylvania," he observed, "and should be cultivated." But Europe (where they are hard to grow) and America (where they grow easily) alike ignored the soybean until the Russo-Japanese War left Japan with a surplus of Manchurian beans to dump somewhere. In 1908 the fabulous banker-merchant clan of Mitsui shipped 2,000 tons to England, where cottonseed and linseed oils were momentarily scarce. Soybean oil proved...
Green Manure & Rabbits. Soybeans grow well anywhere corn and cotton grow, so the U.S. corn and cotton belts are the U.S. soybean belt (see map, p. 40). In crop rotation they fit neatly into the place of oats, making a four-year cycle of corn, soybeans, wheat, clover. They are an ideal catch crop where early seedings of other crops have failed and will grow in the 100 to 120 days between a late spring harvest and a fall planting. They can be planted any time from corn-planting time (about April 15 on) to midsummer, a great convenience...