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Frank N. Meyer

Soya Max. The five pots are filled with broken soy bean cake from which a cheap sauce is made; the pots wholly contain vinegar which is made here from wheat and millet bran. Great heat and great cold are both detrimental to the good quality of both sauce and vinegar, there for the best products are obtained in both spring and fall. (Meyer.)

Neg. No. 13284, Ichang, near Tang yang, Hupeh, China, May 5, 1917