China, Her History, Diplomacy, And Commerce, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
China, Her History, Diplomacy, And Commerce, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Parker Edward Harper
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Thus, the beancake (manure) which used to go from Chefoo and Newchwang to South China for sugar cultivation in 1880, now mostly goes to Japan, and no longer exclusively to Amoy, Swatow, and such places. The beans from which the beancake was made (after the extraction of oil) were almost unknown as an export ten years ago, but now the beans and the cake each count for about half of a total of 50,000,000 taels, and besides about 4,000,000 taels' worth of oil goes to Belgium and Japan. • The Dutch..., Danes, Belgians, and Germans import great quantities of beans (and various crushed oils) for the manu- facture of margarine and other foodstuffs. The Brazilians and the Italians are now growing Soya hispida of their own in rivalry. The export of straw-braid from Chefoo and Tientsin has doubled. Digitized by Google A.D. 1880-1917] GERMAN ^'SLIMNESS" 149 though in 1880, when it first began to attract serious notice, it had already nearly trebled itself in five years; it was never heard of in the five-port days: there was a tremendous fall in 1918 to 5,000,000 taels from 10,000,000 in 1911, no doubt in consequence of fraudulent and careless behaviour on the part of producers and dealers.
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