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In response to readers’ questions, this column Is for
readers who have questions but don’t know who to ask
for the answers. In the past, many readers sent non*
cooking requests to Cook’s Question Corner, a cooking
column on page B 8.
"You Ask You Answer” is for non-cooking ques
tions. The concept Is the same: When a reader sends In a
question, It will be printed In the paper. Readers who
know the answer are asked to respond by mailing the
answer, which will then be primed in the paper.
Questions and answers to this column should be
addressed to You Ask You Answer, Lou Ann Good,
P.O. Box 609, Ephrata, PA 17522.
QUESTION A. Molt of New Holland would like to know
the words to the complete poem that was recited in the 1920 s
when her father-in-law went to school. The poem contains
these lines: The carpenter’s house is falling down. The
preacher’s kids are the worse in town.... Since this request
appeared, Theresa Litecky, Eastampton, N.J., and several
others have written to say they remember parts of this poem
and can hardly wait to see the complete poem. Any readers
who remember the complete poem, please send it
immediately.
QUESTION—Romaine B. Answell, Sumerdale, would like
to know who manufactured the Webalco electric skillet.
QUESTION Charles E. Wright, Duncannon, pur
chased a 13-inch parlor stove made of iron with the following
marks: On the front spark Inside is written Gray Iron Casting
Co., Mt. Joy, Pa. On the inside top door 75-11; on the poker
7517. The doors, drafts, etc., would like a full-sized stove. Is
this company still in business?
QUESTION —A reader from Thorton writes that families of
Canadian geese have taken residence in their pond. Howcan
the geese be encouraged to leave the pond?
QUESTION Barb Gayman would like more explicit
instructions for a question she had asked previously. She
asked what to do about food sticking to the plastic trays of her
food dehydrator. A reader suggested that she line the trays
with waxed paper. Barb did and the paper stuck so tight, is
was not possible to remove it and resulted in unedible fruit.
Another reader suggested she use rancid spray, but she is
concerned that it will get rancid. Any other suggestions?
QUESTION A reader would like to Know if someone has
a grain scale that can be bought to weigh saffron or
gunpowder.
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Chicken History
Has Feminine Mystique
GEORGETOWN, Del. To
day’s commercial poultry industry
can be viewed as an equal-oppor
tunity enterprise, with both men
and women involved at most lev
els of production, processing,
marketing, and management
But in grandmother’s day and
many centuries beyond, when
chickens and eggs were raised ini
tially for home consumption,
poultry production was viewed
primarily as a job for women and
children. So it’s not surprising that
a feminine mystique pervades the
QUESTION Walter Hertzog, King of Prussia, asks who
to get rid of bamboo in his yard that is running shoots every
where. He also asks where to purchase clump bamboo that
doesn't run.
QUESTION Mary Sasscer, Upper Mailboro, Md., would
like to know where to purchase a used treadle scroll saw for
use in demonstrating at craft shows.
QUESTION—Anna Newswanger, 185 S. Pool Forge Rd.,
Narvon, PA 17555, would like to purchase the book ‘Ada and
the Wild Duck,*' by Edith Brecht. Please state price when
answering.
QUESTION—D. Newsom, Cooperstown, N.Y., would like
to know where to find kegs for Saint Bernards to wear around
their necks. He needs to real kegs, not miniature knick
knacks, that live Saint Bernards wear.
QUESTION—D. Newsom, Cooperstown, N.Y., would like
to buy an Aladdin Lamp that is either electric or oil or ker
osene, but not the Aladdin mantle type. He wants the shape,
the kind rubbedJor a wish in the story of the Magic Lamp.
QUESTION D.Newsom, R. 2, Box 530 Copperstown,
N.Y. 13326-9606, would like to purchase soft fake fur or plush
large pies in 6 to 8 yard lengths. Can be new or used. Send
source and price.
QUESTION A subscriber from Lehighton would like to
know where to purchase plastic lids for soft plastic quart con
tainers for freezing produce. If lids cannot be purchased sepa
rately, where can she purchase wholesale a case of plastic
quart containers.
ANSWER —A reader wanted to know where to send for a
catalog featuring vinyl doll heads, arms, and legs, she wants
to make her own dolls. Thanks to Alta Sensenig, Newville,
who suggests Bolek's Craft Supply, 330 N. Tuscarawas
Avenue, P.O. Box 465, Dover, Ohio, 44622-0465. Anna
Newswanger, Narvon, suggests CR’s Crafts, Box 8, Leland,
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history and lore of chickens, both
worldwide and on the Delmarva
Peninsula.
People knowledgeable about
Delmarva agricultural lore are
aware that one woman, the late
Mrs. Wilmer Steele of Ocean
View, Del., is credited with found
ing the commercial broiler indus
try that began in Delaware and
spread throughout the nation.
Visitors to the Delaware Agricul
tural Museum in Dover on June 18
had the opportunity to watch a
professional actress portray Steele
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working in her original chicken
house, which is now located in the
museum.
The re-enactment was associat
ed witih the Dclmarva Chicken
Festival, at its 46th annual run
June 17-18 at nearby Delaware
Slate University. The festival was
sponsored by Dclmarva Poultry
Industry. Inc., the trade associa
tion for the area’s nearly $1.3 bil
lion-a-year broiler industry.
/flso on display were Delaware
Blue Hen Chickens, official state
bird of the First State for the past
S 3 years. Actually, the legend of
the Blue Hen Chicken dates back
nearly 220 years, when soldiers of
the Delaware Regiment establish
ed their reputation as Delaware
Blue Hen “fightint gamecocks.”
Whether they actually carried
Blue Hen Chickens with them on
the battlefield is a controversial is
sue among historians. Know
ledgeable chicken fanciers will
tell you that it is the hen who pass
es on fighting baits to her male
offspring in the world of game
birds. So, back in the days when
cockfighting was legal, a hen with
champion male offspring was a
valuable commodity.
The poultry industry exhibit,
coordinated and mannd by poultry
personnel from the University of
Delaware and University of Mary
land, also included two movies de
picting the history of Delmarva’s
poultry industry. One showed
highlights of the first National
Chicken Cooking Contest held in
1949 in Salisbury, Md. and the
other, “Chicken Goes to War,”
traced the early days of the local
poultry industry.
A scaled-vers ion model showed
visitors some of the new technolo
ly in today’s modern chicken
houses and compared production
practices witih practices of past
years.
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