THE SOYA BEAN
Henry Ford lias Aimed his mind to the soya bean. < He sees a day when the beanstalk may climb to the tops of skyscrapers. The soya bean is tlie wealth of Manchuria and feeds millions of poor people. In Pennsylvania it covers 5,000,000 acres. It is a substitute for rice. It makes paints and soaps and printing' ink. It can be turned into oil and butter and cheese. But Mr Ford has found a new use for it.
On his 30,000-acre farm in Michigan he is planting it for its fibre, which will be treated with chemicals so as to produce a working material as light as wood and nearly as hard as steel. He will use it for his cars while obtaining from it as a by-pro-duct lacquer for varnishing the bodywork.
But this is only a small part of its destiny. He foresees a time when it will supersede bricks and cement and joinery for houses, and on its strong foundations will rise the superstructure (to which it will contribute) of the skyscrapers for which the new world is famous. Some day there may be a monument higher than the Woolworth Building to the fame of Mr Ford and his soya bean.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4694, 16 May 1935, Page 6
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207THE SOYA BEAN King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4694, 16 May 1935, Page 6
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