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To: oyez

My father always said that soybeans were brought to US by Henry Ford who used the oil in paint for cars.


6 posted on 12/20/2006 7:38:24 PM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: ClaireSolt
I've heard that, too.

Soy beans really saved a lot a cotton farmers when the demand dropped due to man made fiber back in the mid 1950's and later.

7 posted on 12/21/2006 9:14:16 AM PST by oyez (Why is it that egalitarians act like royalty?)
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To: ClaireSolt
I've heard that, too.

Soy beans really saved a lot a cotton farmers when the demand dropped due to man made fiber back in the mid 1950's and later.

8 posted on 12/21/2006 9:14:19 AM PST by oyez (Why is it that egalitarians act like royalty?)
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