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large seed companies in
the United States. Moses Chu
also offers his services in
helping pick the correct
variety.
He also will be glad to help
the grower with the proper
contacts in New York City to
get him started.
Chu’s plan will no doubt
appeal to some innovators
and experimenters who are
willing to speculate with a
few acres of the cabbage.
cabbage
But, for those who simply
want to try this delicious
vegetable for their own
tables, Chu suggests cooking
it with beef or chicken. First,
he says, boil the meat. When
it is ready, add the cabbage
and cook only for a short
while, leaving the cabbage in
a crisp state.
“You save vitamins that
way,” says Chu, who is very
much concerned with eating
properly and getting all the
nutrients possible from food.
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He firmly believes that
ginger and garlic should be
grown in Lancaster County
and used as both seasonings
and medicines.
“Ginger aids , the
digestion,” he says, and tells
of fighting colds with a liquid
containing ginger and brown
sugar. This particular spice
is a mild stimulant which
causes the cold victim to
perspire, therefore helping
to shake a fever.
After explaining the
various uses of the spice,
Chu asks incredulously, “Do
you know where we get our
ginger from? Jamaica.”
Then, he asks another
question which is foremost in
his mind.
“Why do we, who are en
agricultural country, import
these things from other
countries when we can grow
them ourselves? he queries.
Chu grows his own ginger in
his backyard garden.
Garlic is another herb
which he has used
medicinally as well as to
season food.
“When you get a wound,
rub it with a piece of garlic,”
he says, “and save yourself
from buying the ointment.”
Then, he points out for those
who may be sceptical of the
old herbal remedies, “You
know, scientists have found
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As you might guess from
his name and belief in herbal
medicines, Moses Chu did
not grow up in this country.
Rather, he is a native of
mainland China, having left
his homeland during the
Communist takeover. He
.lived for several years in
Hong Kong, and traveled
extensively in Southeast
Asia. About 30 years ago, he
settled in Tanzania on
Africa’s East Coast. There,
he was a pioneer in the
textile industry. Then, three
years ago Chu decided to
come to America to live so
that he could be close to his
children. He and his wife
have a son who is an elec
trical engineer with a
computer company and two
daughters. One of the
daughters had been an oc
cupational therepist at Mt
Sinai hospital in New York
City prior to her marriage,
and another works for a
publishing company.
When Chu first came to
this country, he and a
colleague rented an 88 acre
farm for two years. The
operation was a general
farm with hogs, steers, and
corn. That’s quite a change
for a man who had worked in
textiles all his life.
But, the situation of ren-
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cattle feed.
“We’ve just started a
project that aims to use
debris normally left in the
forest as a source of car
bohydrate for cattle feed,”
says C. Gardner Shaw, a
plant pathologist at
Washington State Univer
sity.
The concept involves
selecting fungi that produce
large amounts of lignase, an
enzyme that breaks down
lignin in the wood. The fungi
are then inoculated into
chips made from limbs and
branches of no commercial
value. Lignin is the tough,
noncarbohydrate component
of wood that serves as a
binding agent to hold
cellulose wood fibers
together.
“Reducing lignin to three
or four per cent of the total
dry weight would make wood
a satisfactory carbohydrate
source for cattle,” says Dr.
Shaw. Higher amounts of
lignin prevent normal
functioning of the rumen -
ting the acreage was not
totally to Cfiu’s liking, so he
left farming and went into
the buying and selling of
soybeans for human con
sumption. Chu says that he
gets about a three to four
month supply of the beans
from this area and the rest
from Ohio. He sells them to
East Coast ethnic groups
such as the New York
Chinese community.
His other business is an
African art shop on Route 30
east of Lancaster. The ar
tifacts which he brought with
him from Africa are carved
from solid blocks of Ebony
by mountain tribesmen.
And, now, a sideline is
getting Lancaster County
farmers into producing foodis
for ethnic markets and
making people aware that
they can be more self suf
ficient in what they produce.
To answer any questions
on Chinese cabbage and to
give more information,
Moses Chu has given his
phone number. It is 717-687-
8751.
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the first stomach or
“paunch” of cattle.
When limbs and branches
are left in the forest they also
create a fire hazard. This
could be eliminated if the
debris could be converted to
cattle feed.
The concept could also be
extended to timber that
would otherwise be wasted
after fires and precom
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Successful development of
this process would extend
the period, particularly in
the fall, that cattle could be
left in forested areas. “This
could lead to more manure
deposited on the land, in
creased nitrogen in forest
soils and reduced pollution in
feedlots,” says Shaw.
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