AlO-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, June 4, 1988 OPINION Bring On The Carbonated Milk Cows have seen many things happen to their milk over the last 100 years. It’s been bottled, pasteurized, homogenized, forti fied, skimmed, powdered and fla vored, to name a few. Now, carbonated milk drinks are being developed for the mark et. U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists are finding new ways to make drinks using powdered milk and filtered apricot juice. “We made them in the laborat ory and they need to be improved for commercial sales, but they taste great,” says USDA’s Ranjit S. Kadan, who developed them. “You get that tingling, refreshing sensation of carbonation that you get in soft drinks, and you’re also getting calcium, protein and vita min C from the milk and juice.” He adds; “Carbonated milk would be a big help for children, who need calcium to develop their bones.” Kadan, a food technologist for USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, makes the drinks by bub bling carbon dioxide gas through a mixture of water, powdered nonfat dry milk, flavoring or apricot juice and other ingredients. The mixture is kept under pressure and bottled right away so the carbonation doesn’t escape. In tests last year, Kadan made a strawberry-flavored milk that stay ed fresh up to six months under refrigeration. His milk-and-juice drink lasted twr to three months. “We’ve shown that you can make a carbonated drink in which the powdered milk stays sus pended and doesn’t separate in the mixture,” Kadan says. “Commer cial companies would have to refine the process and add other Farm Calendar Saturday, June 4 Bucks/Montgomery Wool Pool, Delaware Valley College, Doy lestown, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Chester County Dairy Princess Pageant, Spadzman Building, Brandywine Hospital & Trau ma Center, Coatesville, 7:30 | FARM FORUM OUR READERS WRITeT Editor, This year has been an exciting year for me. I know your paper has done many articles on the Dairy Princesses, but now are focusing on the new one coming in. 1 thought this article could be one Lancaster Farming Established 1955 Published Every Saturday At Record-Express Office Building 22 E Main Street Lihtz, PA 17543 by Lancaster Farming, Inc. A Stttnrmn EnWprht Robert G Campbell General Manager Everett R Newswanger Managing Editor e*|iyil«M ISM by CnuMv Parmhif flavors before you’ll find it in the supermarket.” Kadan used strawberry flavor ing he bought in a local supermark et. The apricot juice was filtered using processing methods adapted by Charles C. Huxsoll and col leagues at the USDA agency’s Western Regional Research Cen ter in Albany, Calif. Hopefully, Kadan says, carbo nated milk beverages will spur consumption of milk. Between 1975 and 1985, per capita milk consumption in the United Stales dropped 12 percent, according to the Milk Industry Foundation’s 1987 Fact Book. During the same time, per capita consumption of soft drinks increased 68 percent. This means that milk, a valuable source of calcium, is being underu tilized. A cup of two-percent milk contains 297 mg of calcium more than one-third of the recom mended 800 mg per day for adults and young children. Most soda contains no calcium. Aside from its nutritional advantages, Kadan says, carbo nated milk also would help spur commercial use of powdered, or nonfat dry milk. The federal gov ernment buys surplus nonfat dry milk, American cheese and butter. Last year, the powdered milk sur plus was 556 million pounds and is estimated at 400 million to 600 million for 1988. “If our new drinks captured three to five percent of the carbo nated drink market, they could wipe out the powdered milk sur plus,” says Kadan. That would be good news for dairy farmers. So bring on the car bonated milk and give consumers some good nutrition while they quench their thirst. p.m. Tioga Dairy Princess Pageant, Mansfield High School, Man sfield, 8:00 p.m. Cecil County 4-H Breeders Fair, Cecil County Fairgrounds. Rose Show, Lancaster Farm & Home Center, 1-7 p.m. last tribute to the 1987-1988 Dairy Princess. FAREWELL FROM A DAIRY PRINCESS As many Dairy Princess (Turn to Page A 37) JC: u&r W\ NOW IS THE TIME By Jay Irwin Lancaster County Agriculture Agent To Cull Layer Flocks With low egg prices over the last several months and the future prices not much better, we must look to areas that can reduce expenses. The almost lost art of culling is one area that should be considered. Nearly every flock, regardless of size, could cull 6 to 8% of their birds. These low producing or non producing birds are eating valu able feed and taking up space. Severely cull every flock over 7 months of lay. Remove all sick and weak layers, as well as culling out healthy birds that have small, pale or shriveled combs AND cull all birds with a small, dry yellow inac tive vent. This should remove all birds laying one to 30 percent production. Layers producing 0 to 30 per cent do not earn a profit; these lay ers only put excess eggs on the market SO CULL THEM OUT. Egg prices may rise if enough eggs from poor layers are removed from the market. Ag economists say if 2-3% of all eggs are removed from the marketplace, egg prices will go up significantly. To Use Respirators A great many different types of chemicals and pesticides are used on farms today to control the numerous problem pests. This includes mixing, handling and applying the various materials. We urge farmers to invest in respira tors to meet safety measures under today’s farming procedures. These are needed for handling and apply ing various spray materials, and when using solvents that give off fumes. In addition, farmers working in dusty places, in manure storage tanks, and in silos should wear one of the protective devices. Dusts, molds and fumes are hard on lungs Sunday, June 5 Annual Rose Show, Lancaster Farm & Home Center, 1 to 7p.m. Monday, June 6 Eastern Shell Egg Quality School, Ocean City, MD, 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Carpet Care Inservice, Penn State University, 1 p.m. Economic Dcvelopemcnt Work, Penn Slate University, through the Bth. Tuesday, June 7 Berks County Carcass Contest, Peters Brothers Lenhartsville, 6:30 p.m. (Turn to Page A 27) BOX IRAT WAS GOOD/ and require protection to reduce injury. The canister type respira tors are suggested because they cover the entire face. Don’t expose yourself to permanent lung injury when protection is available. To Prepare Grain Bins We are approaching barley harvest season with wheat not far behind, so I would like to remind our grain producers that now is a good time to clean up your grain bins in preparation to harvest. First, clean out all the old grain, sweep down all the sidewalls and floors making sure to remove old grain lodged in the cracks. Next, spray the floor and walk with a residual insecticide. Malathion and Methoxychlor are still very effective follow the label for directions. Finally, pre vent birds and rodents from enter ing the bin. Repair holes with met al or other rat-proofing materials. Clean up all spilled grain around the bin to discourage the various Background Scripture: Exo dus 1:1 through 2:10. Devotional Reading: Exodus 1:15-22. The story of Moses’ birth and infancy is one of naked power vs. compassion. The power of the Pharoah seems virtually limitless. With a word he was able to enslave the Hebrew people. With another, he commanded the death of every newborn Hebrew male. His word was law and no one, particularly the Hebrews, had any power or leverage to thwart him. What could the Hebrew people do in the face of such sweeping, absolute power? Throughout history there have always been men like Pharoah whose power seemed invincible— Alexander the Great, Atilla the Hun, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, to name just a few. Millions of people have been at the mercy of men such as these. The mighty Pharoah stands in stark contrast to the other charac ters in this story of Moses. First, there are the lowly Hebrew mid wives. They have no power at all, for they are both Hebrews and women and their profession is a humble one. They could not oppose Pharoah’s plan to kill new born Hebrew boys. So, it would appear once again naked power has carried the day. POWERLESS WOMEN But that isn’t what the writer of Exodus tells us. Instead, he relates how these humble, powerless women reacted to the Pharoah’s command: “. . . the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live” (1:17). They may have feared the temporal power of the Pharoah, but they feared the judgement of God even more. They could not HOW GOOD WAS IT? pests from the area. To Move Livestock Carefully Hot weather requires some spe cial handling of livestock if losses are to be kept to a minimum. When temperatures and humidity both reach 80* F., livestock suffer the same as human beings. Fat animals suffer more than breeding animals, and fat hogs can stand the least amount of heat and humidity. We suggest that livestock be moved during the early morning hours, and be hauled on trucks bedded down with wet sand. A minimum of stress and excitement will also reduce the danger of heat exhaustion. Trucks should be either open-sided or have good ventilation during hot weather. Losses during breakdowns can be reduced by having a standby track available on short notice. Lives tock are valuable; let’s do all we can to reduce stress during hauling. fight him, but neither would they obey his command. Finding out about their dis obedience angered the Pharoah and he responded with yet another display of power, commanding the Egyptian people that henceforth “Every son that is bom of the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile . . (1:22). Surely, the Egyptians would not disobey him! Certainly the fate of the Hebrew people was now sealed! The mother of Moses was also powerless. She knew she was going to lose her son, Moses. So, she did the kind of thing that per haps only a mother would do; she put her son into a basket among the reeds of the Nile. It was not an act of naked power, but of desperate mother love. But by this act she was able to thwart the power of the Pharoah. MEEKLY ARMED Other “powerless” people play ed a role. Moses’ sister, Miriam, watched the infant Moses from afar to make sure nothing hap pened to him. Nothing very power ful about that! Pharoah’s daughter found the child and, although she recognized that the infant was a Hebrew condemned to death by her father, the Pharoah she “took pity on him” and saved his life. Once again, Moses’ sister, Miriam, did what little she could do, suggesting to Pharoah’s daughter that she find a Hebrew nurse for the infant. And Moses’ real mother, unselfish and thinking only of her son’s welfare, accepted the task of raising her own son for the Pharoah’s daughter: “So the woman took the child and nursed him. And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharoah’s daught er, and he became her son” (2:9b,10). Three powerless women, armed only with love and tenderness, were able to defeat the awesome power of the Pharoah . . . because they were working, albeit unknow ingly, with the will of God. Thus it was and still can be today. (Based cm copyrighted Outline* produced by the Com nuttee on the I Worm Sene* and used by permission Released by Community A Suburban Press) IT WA<o
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