BIS-Lancister Farming, Saturday, June 29, 1996
You Ask-You Answer
QUESTION C.Stage, Lawrenceville, has a hoosier
cabinet that is painted in the orginal green with small black
flowers on top, two roll-style doors, and a flour mill. The bot
tom half has been painted over to a lighter green. It has the
manufacturing tag #Ol3. She would like an estimate of the
value as it is or stripped down. The wood is not oak, but a light
er wood.
QUESTION Jack Gaul, Pipersville, would like to know
where to get information on a Standard Monarch garden
tractor.
QUESTION —Louise Graybeal, Renick, W.Va., would like
to purchase an electric milker for one milch cow.
QUESTION Ada King, 5131 Amish Rd., Kinzers, PA
17535, would like a book called “Shoo-Fly Girl” by Lois Lenski.
QUESTION Naomi Stoltzfus, Leola, would like to know
where to buy rolls of dacron and cotton material that is 1 -inch
wide'in dark or light colors.
QUESTION —Jean Nestler, Halifax, would like to know of
someone who can put new handles on old butchering knives.
QUESTION Millie Donmoyer, Annville, wants pattern
directions for making baskets out of telephone books.
QUESTION Janice Kurtz, Millerstown, acquired a plas
tic Aqua-Matic Jet powered blender from the 1950 era manu
factured by Aqua-Matic Products Co., Oceanside, N.Y. Kurtz
needs the nozzle and hose assembly but when she wrote to
the address, her letter was returned with addressee
unknown. Anyone have the present address or parts?
QUESTION —Kathy Helsel, Woodbury, would like to know
how to make vanilla-scented ornaments to paint or decorate.
QUESTION —Leslie Heulitt, Rock Cave, W.Va., is looking
for a mail-order company that sells feedgrade ground kelp
from 50-pound bags. She also would like a small manure fork
called the original apple picker.
QUESTION Leo Rodgers, Tamaqua, is looking for an
operator’s manual for a New Holland stack wagon model
#lOl2 and for a Massey Ferguson Model #l2O baler.
QUESTION A reader would like a formula for the old
green and red paint used on old wooden.farm implements.
The paint looks like it was very thin and soaked into the wood.
QUESTION Terry Lerew, Gardners, wants information
regarding minature bottle gourds or tiny birdhouse gourds.
They need to be 1 -4-inches in size. Lerew would like an inex
pensive source to buy those already dried and cleaned or a
source for seeds and information on how to do it herself.
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QUESTION—John Randall, Holcomb* N.Y., lost the ad in
which someone advertised portable scales with 5,000-pound
capacity in this paper in January.
QUESTION BJ Stoltzfus, Mohnton, would like to know
where to find a horse hair wood stove brush, not a broom type.
QUESTION Milton B. Moyer, Hummelstown, would like
to know where to purchase spike oil, an antiseptic for dressing
wounds.
QUESTION —Robert Delong, Walden, N.Y., would like to
know where to purchase Falu rodfarg paint, which is made in
Sweden. It is asuperior water-based red paint, ideal for barns,
which previously was available from a company in Georgia.
QUESTION A Turbotville reader would like to know
where to find literature or an owner's manual for Van Berkel’s
original hand crank meat slicer from U.S. Slicing Machine Co.
It was made in 1912 in La Porte, Ind.
QUESTION Bill Sherwood, Beavertown, is looking for a
kid’s wagon made by Sherwood Company with the name
Sherwood printed on the side.
QUESTION Sandra Laughman, Hardin, Mo., wrote that
she fead about a woman who creates pickled fabrics. Sandra
would like information on the procedure and ingredients to
use.
ANSWER Mary Jones, Compton, Md., wanted direc
tions for building a sparrow trap. Thanks to Fred Appel, 814
Country Lane. Paradise, PA 17562, for replying. He will furn
ish a drawing and instructions for $2. Contact him at the above
address.
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ADADC Helps Double
School B-Fost Programs
WILKES-BARRE (Luzerne
Co.) The American Dairy As
sociation and Dairy Council, Inc.
(ADADC) and the Wilkes-Barre
School District celebrated an ex
pansion of the School Breakfast
Program this spring. Now, 4,000
more students can benefit from a
healthy, nutritious breakfast each
morning. These new programs
more than double the number of
students who will have access to
eating breakfast with wholesome
milk to start off their school day.
To kick off the expansion,
ADADC arranged for the Wilkes-
Barre mayor to serve breakfast to
the students and remind them of.
the importance of starting their
day with a healthy breakfast Lo
cal media coverage of the event
included the “Citizen’s Voice,”
the largest daily newspaper in
ADADC’s Pennsylvania market
ing area. The article informed par
ents of the new availability of
school breakfast for children at
three additional elementary
schools and a junior high school in
the district.
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