812-Laneast«r Farming, Saturday, June 27,1987
Award Winners Honored At Grassland Environmental FFA Banquet
The Annual Grassland En
vironmental FFA Parent and
Member Banquet was held May
27th at the Blue Ball Fire Hall.
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far more. Experiment stations
spend about $1 billion a year on
agricultural research, says
Filmore E. Bender, associate
director of the Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station
and a leader in Hatch Act cen
tennial celebrations.
Three Basic Acts
“The Hatch Act was one of three
basic pieces of public sector
agriculture legislation,” says
Bender, whose office is on the
University of Maryland campus in
College Park.
“The first was the Morrill Act of
1862, which established land-grant
colleges, one in each state, that
were required to teach the
agricultural and mechanical arts.
ITie colleges trained people, but
there was no developing body of
agricultural knowledge, so the
Hatch Act created the ex
perimental stations affiliated with
the land-grant colleges.
“The third piece of legislation
was the Smith-Lever Act of 1914,
which established the cooperative
extension service. So you have a
tripartite system: the land-grant
university as a teaching in
stitution, the experiment station
doing research, and the extension
service taking the results out to the
public.”
Because research scientists
depend on both state and federal
funds, they must take into account
the agricultural needs of their
states. That’s why E.M. Buck
found himself pondering the
problem of what to do with red
hake.
“Red hake is abundant off the
New England coast, but it’s what
' we call an underutilized species of
fish,” says Buck. “There isn’t
much demand for it because of a
chemical reaction that goes on
when it’s in frozen storage; and
when you thaw it, it gives off all its
water, loses its texture, and gets
chewy.
“We found in our marine-foods
laboratory that, with proper
Adam Louden presented the
Greenhand degree to the following
members; Scott Anderson, Daniel
Brenner, Joseph Day, Donald
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handling, you could freeze it
successfully. We knew of the in
terest in surimi, seafood analogues
like imitation crabmeat that are so
popular today. We determined that
red hake makes good surimi,
nutritional and low in fat; ocean
nuggets are a surimi product that
combines squid and red hake. Now
they’re building a plant in North
Carolina to use red hake in
surimi.”
Alan Epps might say reindeer
also are an underutilized species.
Alaska’s herd numbers about
30,000, and is growing; about 27,000
are on the Seward Peninsula,
where they are owned and
managed by Alaska’s native
peoples. Eskimos annually eat
about 220 pounds of reindeer
apiece, compared with U.S. beef
consumption of 79.8 pounds a year,
but reindeer meat now is sold only
to the “wild-game-restaurant
trade.”
Reindeer Survival Improves
“By controlling diseases and
improving handling techniques,
we’ve been able to increase the
survival rate for young reindeer
from about 50 percent to 80 or 85
percent,” Epps says. “We’re
trying to develop new field
slaughter techniques and to im
prove inspection, so that reindeer
meat can be used in sausage and
sold as a specialty item. ’ ’
If Buck, Epps, and their
colleagues have an idol in their
Hatch Act-funded work, it might be
Robert C. Baker, a veteran
researcher at Cornell University.
“In 1961, a colleague and I were
asked to help the broiler industry
come up with new products,”
Baker recalls. “So we got Hatch
funds and developed a chicken hot
dog. Everyone said you couldn’t do
it, that people wouldn’t eat it, that
chicken was entirely different
from beef and pork. But basically
meat is meat.”
Industry put Baker’s chicken hot
dogs on sale in 1970. Today they
account for 25 percent of the hot
dog market.
To prevent a
hernia, lift
with your legs.
The groin is the weakest
point. With strain it may give
way and cause a hernia
Bend your knees to pick up
a heavy object, then straighten
your legs. When your legs are
doing the work your groin and
back are protected
What if you already have
a hernia? In most cases, a
hernia can be repaired in one
'.tpatient surgery
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Fair, Jeremy Hartranft, Randy
High, Tim Horst, Mike Pelliciotti,
Juanita Shirk, Jamie Weir, Lonnie
Chapin and Aaron Humphrey.
Chapter Degrees, presented by
Mrs. Donna Searle, went to the
following students: Chuck
Buchanan, Lonnie Chapin, Steve
Frankford, Phil Horning, Darwin
Horst, Aaron Humphrey, Troy
Kauffman, Mike Lindenmuth,
Brock Martin, Galen Martin,
Lonnie Martin, Mike Middleton,
Chappy Parmer, Janetta Shirk,
John Stoltzfus, and Jeff Witwer.
Red Rose Degrees were
presented to Heidi Fisher, Gret
chen Frederick and Jim Shirk by
county advisor Clifford J. Day.
Rodger Weaver was presented
the Keystone degree by Dr. L.
Lloyd Ruoss.
Heidi Fisher presented Cer
tificates of Appreciation to Adam
Louden, mathematics cluster
chair; Mary Jo Cancelmo,
chairman of the State FFA
Foundation Sponsoring Com
mittee; Darien McCosby, an
alumnus and supporter; and
Ronald Frederick, Eastern
Regional FFA coordinator.
Julie Hess gave remarks from
the State FFA Association as
immediate past president.
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