4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. September 28.1968
Prom . Where We Stand ...
Meatless “Meats”
Are With Us
Back on "substitutes” again. From
time to time new products, new informa
tion available. We think you should know
about it . . . keep alert to developments.
Presently about 15 U.S. firms in some phase
of manufacturing "meatless meats.” These
are true substitutes because they’re simu
lated to look like real stuff. Products in
clude ham, sausage, franks, luncheon
loaves, meat loaves, chipped beef, fried
chicken, bacon, even steaks, other "fresh”
cuts. Technologists say this is a beginning.
Subjective analysis of products; some very
tasty . . . some mushy, off-flavors and
pretty blah.
Vegetable protein products also used as
principle “meat” source in soups, chili
mixes, casseroles, potpies, baby foods, TV
dinners, other convenience foods. In terms
of tonnage, non-meats today are fraction of
one percent of real meat tonnage produc
ed, consumed by Americans. (That was true
of margarine, too.) One thing our industry
should remember; Every manufacturer has
right to produce what he pleases. If it’s high
quality, palatable, priced right, he probably
can find a market for it. Perhaps a big mar
ket. We just don’t know yet to what extent
Americans will* insist on real meat. Most
consumers are pretty fickle. (Remember
that margarine!)
Well, what is present market? Where’s
non-meat being sold? First, there’s small
number of consumers who won’t eat meat
for religious or other apparently bona-fide
reasons. They’ll buy ersatz. Health-food
stores also carry lines of non-meats . .
but these products usually merchandised
under quackery or fad banners Still, it’s a
place to sell . . . and they’re selling along
with tiger’s milk and seaweed.
Industrially, growing use of vegetable
protein, especially spun or extruded soy
bean products. As binders or extenders in
highly comminuted sausage products, for
example, the protein can increase nutritive
quality, help control fat content economi
cally Looks attractive to some processors.
Also significant, meat-like products be
coming direct competition for consumers’
attention in retail store. If she’s sharp-eyed
and not too price-conscious, the lady of your
house can find all the products mentioned at
beginning of this article in one store or an
other.
As ingredients in other products, ap
pears to be growing use, particularly in
peanut butter (bacon), dried mixes, etc.
Here’s place to watch burgeoning growth.
Could you tell if that's really beef in your
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LANCASTER FARMING
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
,P 0 Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543
Office 22 E Mam St, Lititz, Pa 17543
Phone Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626 2191
Everett R Newswanger, Editor
Robert G Campbell, Advei Using Director
Subscription price $2 pei year in Lancaster
County,- l^elsewheie
Established November 4 1953
Published cveiy Satuiday by Lancaster
Farming. Lititz, Pa.
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17543
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beef pot pie? We doubt it. May be growth
institutionally in hospitals, other big feed
ers, including restaurants. Like other con
venience foods, -non-meats invalve less
kitchen work, little or no waste and some
are highly nutritious.
Substitutes, analogs, invitations, alter
natives . . . call ’em what you will. They’re
here. Won’t go away. Industry must re
double its efforts in qaulity improvement,
production efficiency, marketing aggres
siveness at all levels from farm to con
sumer. (Industry could try protective legis
lation. But somebody keeps handing us the
margarine when we say, “please pass the
butter.”) Stepped-up research, including
market research development and sell
ing of real meat is the answer. Le't’s get at
it.-
$2lO Doorknob
Only 20 years ago, an emnlover in New
England challenged the constitutionality of
withholding taxes on the grounds that an
employee’s full wages belonged to him until
the taxes were due, at which time he could
pay them himself. This point of view was
never brought before the Supreme Court
for a ruling, and nobody has challenged
withholding since. And so, all businesses
have become tax collectors for the govern
ment, whether they like it or not.
The horror stones of senseless waste in
federal spending are legendary and include
everything from $152 billion in foreign aid
down to $2lO doorknobs for the Pentagon.
An article appearing in an Esco Corpora
tion publication makes the suggestion that,
“If we have neither the courage nor the
money to contest a tax system of quesion
able legality, the least we can do is to take
some action regarding the ways in which
our money is spent ” It is pointed out that
if we haven’t written the people who con
trol federal spending our Congressmen,
our Senators and the President of the United
States lately, perhaps it’s time we got
at it, or an alternative might be to register
our protest in the polling booth this Novem
ber.
Across The Fence Row
What’s A Billion’ Not many people can
really appreciate the immensity of the $lB6
billion federal budget for 1969. Watchmaker
Arde Bulova has a novel way of explaining
what a billion amounts to He asks his
guests for their estimate of how many
minutes have elapsed since Christ was
born Would you say trillions? No As of
right now, only little over one billion min
utes have passed.
Mankind is working hard to improve
everything, except people.
Knowing that you don’t know much is
knowing more than most people do.
Little things in life often annoy us more
than the big ones. We can sit on a mountain,
but not on a tack. We can fight elephants,
but mosquitoes are sometimes impossible.
The wise man does not judge till he sees
clearly. When people see clearly, they
seldom Judge.
Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The five-day forecast for the period
Saturday through next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average near or slightly
below normal. Daytime highs are expected
in the'6o’s to 70’s and overnight lows in the
mid 50’s Cool during the first half of the
period and mild the latter half Normal
high-low temperature for Harrisburg is .73-
51. . : '
Rain may total between one-fourth and
one-half inch .falling near the end of the
period.
UVINI IN NIPE
Lesion for September 29,1968
BeuVfrtumlScriphiw tilth tlj UVt2 22*32.
Otvtbtnal Rtttflnii Rsolmi 91 1*6,14*16.
Some time ago I was asked
if I was an optimist or a pes
simist. I found the question dif
ficult to answer because it might
be said that I am "provisionally
pessimistic,” but "ultimately op
timistic.” That is, in the short
■MM run I am like
ly to conclude
that a situation
'JiM run I can see the
» same situation
more brightly
because of my
Rev. Althouse'
haps like little "Lucy” in the
Peanuts cartoon I can say that
I am "very optimistic about my
pessimism.”
One who hopes
Yet, the more we consider these
two terms, the more it becomes
clear that neither is particularly
a Christian perspective. As fol
lowers of Christ, we are not called
to be either optimistic or pessim
istic, but to live in hope. There
is a considerable difference even
between "optimism” and "hope."
Hope implies trust, reliance. The
optimist’s expectations focus on
the inevitable goodness of the
present, while the man who hopes
place his trust in the assurance
of the future.
Man, said Thomas Carlyle,
"is based on hope. He has no
other possession but hope.”
Others are somewhat less en
chanted with it. H.L.- Mencken,
for one, called it "a pathological
belief in the occurence of the im
possible. ” Philosopher Friederich
Nietzsche said it "is the worst of
all evils, for it prolongs the tor
ment of man.” Ogden Nash writes
it off as "dope” and Langdon
terms it "a more gentle name for
fear.”
To Allow Corn To Dry elements and will i educe the
„ , „ . work-load of a bus} farming
Corn has matured rapidly in program next summer. The
the past two weeks because of practice of applying nitrogen
the good weather However, fertilizer to established alfalfa
whether it is ready to be put in- 13 questionable with the
, u . ~ ~ , , feeling that the nitrogen will
to cribs without additional dry- bg m * re beneficial when used
ing is questionable in many on other crops
cases As long as the corn is
standing, field drying is one of
the most economical methods
of getting rid of the moisture
Heat drying is becoming more
popular but is more expensive
Growers are urged to check the
moisture of the corn before
cribbing it to make sure of not
carrying excessive moistuie
which will cause molding
To Top Dress Alfalfa
Following the cutting of the
; ‘ last crop of alfalfa is a good
-'time to apply a phosphorus pot
ash feitihzer to establish stands
This will provide 4ime for the
plant to'take tip the fertilizer
Materials of victory
There le a tense in which Its
detractors ace 'quite right By
itself, hope it empty, but tha
Christian’s trust it not in hope
alone, but In God. This in differ*
ent than a conviction that "every
thing will work out a'J right*
Hope always allows for the many
situations that turn into disap
pointment and tragedy. It does
not deny their reality. It simply
asks that we look beyond and
trust in the ultimate fulfillment of
God’s purpose. Even the trag
edies of this world can become
the raw materials from which
Christ can fashion his eventual
victory.
We see this again and again
in the life of Israel. The He
brews returned from their Baby
lonian captivity to restore the na
tion of God once again. But
in time, the restoration went sour.
The high intentions of the people
got sidetracked along the way
like those of their forefathers.
Thus the prophets began to look
for the coming of the Mes siah who
would bring to fulfillment the
hopes of Israel. Isaiah was one
of the prophets who taught Israel
to hope.
What about present?
Like the aged Simeon (Luke
2: 25-32), we see Jesus Christ
as the fulfillment of tha f messian
ic expectation, & fulfilment that
began with his coming and will
continue to unfold until he comes
again. Yet, some may say (as
perhaps the people in Isaiah’s
time said) "Well, that’s all very
nice, but I’m living now. I ap
preciate what God has done in
the past and what he vull do In
the fhture, but what about the pre
sent? That’s where I am,”
The answer is that those who
live in the hope of what God
will do in the future are freed
to live victoriously in the pre
sent. Assured of the ultimate
outcome, we can go about the
business of living here and now.
Even though we are unsure about
tomorrow, we can be confident
about eternity. By hope, we can
on a rainy day in March look
ahead to the glory o: summer.
That hope does not keep us from
getting our feet wet or muddy,
but we End in it the power to see
that day through because we know
that, beneath the silent earth,
God’s wonders are s.lrring un
seen.
Hope in the future fulfillment
of God’s purpose is medicine for
the present. As Isaiah’s vision
of a Christ to come erabled Is
rael to continue, so the reality
of a Christ who has coma enables
us to live in hope.
(Bcsml •n auHinas capyriflhtaJ a/ *ha Division
•f Christian EWocafian, Natiana Council of «ha
Churchas af Christ in tha U. S. A. Palaasac! by
Cammumty Prass Sarvica)
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
To Dehorn D air> Calves
With the coming of colder
weather, dairymen may want to
be sure the horns aie removed
from all replacement heifer
calves If this is done by caustic
or electric .treatment, then the
time of t year has little beaung
However, when the small hoi ns
aie removed mechanically, the
colder weather usually means
less danger of fly problems
Most dairymen prefer hornless
cows in the milking string un
de? modern management
-methods.