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v HAS NEW USES Civilisation’s oldest known, agricultural crop, the soya bean, has found many new uses in the present 'era ,through scientific research, it wiis revealed during a lecture by. Dr. j.' ; B. Phillips, of tlm department of chemistry at McGill University, Montreal. Nome 4QQO years ago'the Chinese cultivated the soya/'beau. Manchuria', Dr: Phillips said, 'is’‘still'the 'greatest producer with an 'ahnual oOtptit of about 13,500,000,000 pounds, The soya bean, he said, was now used in-,the manufacture, .among other things, of oleomargarine, lard substitutes, cooking oil, mayonnaise, sardine, packing.. paints, varnishes, lacquers, linoleum, oilcloth, printers’'ink, core 0i1.,' soap and candles, while soya, meal J "was used to make soya cheese,’hjaijik, soup, curds/’paste,, spices, sauces,' vegetable casein, glue,' plastics,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18367, 9 April 1934, Page 9
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120OLDEST CROP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18367, 9 April 1934, Page 9
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