816-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 30, 1998
This column is for readers who have questions
but don’t know who to ask for answers.
“You Ask—You Answer” is for non-cooking
questions. 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 printed In the paper.
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ter Farming, P.O. Box 609, Ephrata, PA 17522.
Attention: Lou Ann Good.
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it.
QUESTION Kenneth Mcßeth, Walnut Bottom,
is looking for a pair of W.W.Ii inf. combat boots with
leather tops and two straps.
QUESTION M.V. Runkles 111 wants to know
where to get parts of a Warm Morning coal stove. The
one he has was made by the Locke Stove Co., Kan
sas City, Mo.
QUESTION—HeIen Heavner, Upper T ract, W. V.,
is looking for flavoring or an address for Flavor Mill
Artificial Butter Flavor. The address on the box is
Laguna Hills, Calif., which isn't complete enough to
send an order.
QUESTION Helen Heavner, HC6O Box 4,
Upper Tract, W.V. 26866, is looking for spin curlers
for home perms. She needs all plastic with no rubber
bands. The rubber band breaks her hair. She found
some for body perms, but she wants smaller ones.
She is willing to buy new or used ones.
QUESTION —Mildred Anderson, Dover, wants to
know what makes lotion made from goat’s milk sepa
rate from the other ingredients. She used beeswax,
coconut oil, sweet almond oil, glycerine, and goat's
milk. She had combined the beeswax and oils in a
pan of water until melted, added warm milk and
glycerine and beat with a mixer until cool. After it sat
for awhile, the milk separated from the other ingre
dients. She would appreciate a recipe that works or
ideas on how to make the recipe she has work.
QUESTION A reader needs to relocate gladio
lus bulbs that have already sprouted about 6 inches
tall. Should she let the bulbs dry before replanting or
plant them right away?
QUESTION Rick Altland, 960 Green Spring
Road, York, PA 17402, is looking for pictures and
information regarding Boeckel's Landing, located
about 2 miles south of Holtwood Dam on the west
shore of the Susquehanna River. It was destroyed in
1972 Hurricane Agnes. Rick is trying to gather
enough information to have a picture painted of the
area, where there was a boat rental, bait and tackle
shop, and small store bullion pilings against the hill
side and rowboats tied to big trees along the waters
edge. The name may have been spelled differently or
even been known by another name.
QUESTION —Donald Jones is collecting informa
tion on antique rototillers for a college business
course. He’d like to mail a survey to collectors. Write
to him at 734 Cedar Lane, Perkasie, PA 18944.
QUESTION Ella Keyser, Zieglerville, wants to
know where to buy a belt for an antique sewing
machine. The treadle machine is a New American
#2909819 and Belt No. 25.
QUESTION Vlad Koropchak has a 20-quart
milk can that was used in milk fountains. Does any
one know of a company that would galvanize it to
restore it to the original condition.
QUESTION Art Sholly Jr., Mt. Joy, wants to
know where to find a gas-fired Royal Peanut Roaster,
any condition and any size.
QUESTION Frank Furl, 231 Walnut Rd., Clar
ence, PA 16829, wants to raise hogs and would
appreciate information on the raising and caring of
hogs.
QUESTION Fannie Beiler, Lancaster, would
like to know where to purchase a Bio-Snacky sprou
ter of someone who is willing to sell theirs.
QUESTION Pam Eyer, Carlisle, wants to know
where to find plans to make a wooden playhouse like
those sold at places that sell wooden storage sheds.
She prefers to make one herself instead of purchas
ing a pre-built one.
QUESTION Margaret Diamond, Kunkletown,
wants instructions to make lamps or other items from
popsickle sticks.
QUESTION Shirley Schwoerer, Wysox, has a
Plett Pan, which is a cast iron with seven shallow
indentations and no lid. A recipe is attached that
appears to be a thin pancake recipe, but no other
instructions. Do any readers have more information
about Plett?
QUESTION Helen Cox would like to know how
to start or root forsythia from a clipping.
QUESTION Roland Kamoda, Monongahela,
wants to know where to find a thumb latch and catch
for a log cabin door.
QUESTION Marian Mosemann writes that she
has the complete sections of ‘Home on the Range"
(from this paper) dating back to the late 1970 s to now.
She is downsizing and will glading give the copies to
a reader who would appreciate them. Write to her 293
West White Bear Drive, Summit Hill, PA 18250-1734.
QUESTION Timothy Diehl, Bloomsburg, is
looking for a company that sells parts and a 90-inch
blades for a #l4-277 Workace Bandsaw made by
J.D. Wallace & Co., Chicago.
QUESTION A Pennsylvania reader has had a
Christmas cactus plant for three years and it has nev
er bloomed. How does she get it to bloom? How
much light does it need? Which window works the
best?
QUESTION Patty Clouser wants to know the
value of old Briggs and Stratton engines and of a
Snappin Turtle lawn mower with turtle head Model
#214 STI9 Serial # 7820.
QUESTION —Rosemary Mattiuz, Kersey, is look
ing for handles for 3-ply stainless Flavor Seal cook
ware by Cory. She purchased the set about 30 years
ago and has been using it everyday. The handles are
cracking and making the screws loose.
QUESTION A reader wants to know where to
purchase egg cartons.
QUESTION Ruth Erb, Beavertown. wants to
know how to use Borax or Sulphur candles to kill ter
mites or carpenter ants. Or any natural way not using
chemical pesticides since she is allergic to them. A
previous answer used choloradane, which is illegal to
use.
QUESTION Donna Unger, 133 Krug Rd., Lit
tlestown, PA 17340-9724 is interested in purchasing
Hull piggy banks, which come in various styles and
colors. The dime banks are marked HPSB on the bot
tom. The Jumbo Corky Pig is marked hull © 197, and
the sitting pig is marked hull © 196. The corky pigs
are marked Corky Pig Pat pend, HP Co. © 1957 USA.
QUESTION Eli Ebersol, Lancaster, wants to
buy “Intercourse, PA 200th Anniversary Book," print
ed in 1954. He also wants a jigsaw puzzle of ‘Mascot
Roller Mill," located in Mascot.
QUESTION —A faithful reader would like to know
if anyone can tell her how to save an unfinished quilt
top, she found while cleaning out a house. The top
has turned yellow where exposed, dusty, etc. The
remainder of the quilt is like new. It is printed to be
embroidered in cross stitch and is already marked to
be quilted. If she wases it, the markeings and cross
stitch will probably wash out. Is it worth the time sew
ing and maybe not getting clean? The dirty part is
about a 12-inch square where folded.
QUESTION Patricia Henry, Gettsburg, needs
the address for Bany Products Corp., formerly of St.
Louis, MO. Mail returned with forwarding expired.
Patricia writes that the company makes the best met
al polishing cloth called Victory Miracle.
QUESTION A reader would like to buy used
pressure canners in good condition at a reasonable
price. Write to Box 38, Bart, PA 17503.
QUESTION Clarence Rhorback, Mertztown,
wants to know where to get information on a minia
ture baler that makes 2x2x4-inch bales.
QUESTION Doyle Whitney wants information
on farm areas, where a small farm and a farm equip
ment dealership or repair shop would prosper. He
doesn’t want real estate agents, but perhaps county
extension agents or someone from the Dept, of Ag
could help with the information. Call him collect at
(860) 423-8218.
QUESTION A reader would like information on
keeping a pair of swans in their pond in order to keep
a Canada goose population under control. Which
breed of swans works the best? Do you need to clip
the wings to keep them in the pond? What kind of
care do swans require?
QUESTION Harold Wolf, New Cumberland, is
looking for copies of “Flying" magazine published
from the mid 1950 s to 1962 only. '
QUESTION Bill Kelley, Purcellvilie, wants to
know where to have a meat grinder recoated or refin
ished. He writes that maybe the correct wording is
“hot dipped."
QUESTION —S. Schiaroli, Reading, would like to
know where to purchase a new helmet liner, the type
used inside the army metal helmet of World War 11.
QUESTION —Vera Sloop, Landisburg, would like
Information on where to buy strainer parts for a gal
vanized watering can.
QUESTION—Sharon from Elverson is looking for
additional pieces to a Pfalzgraff set of dishes that
were made 15-20 years ago. Pieces have a cream
background with dark blue accents that include either
a cow, a flower, a rocking horse, A pineapple, a cat, or
a farm scene. Some pieces include the label Spec
trum by Pfaltzgraff.
QUESTION A reader is looking for a shower
curtain with cows on it. Where can she find it?
QUESTION Thane Lafoliette, Bernville, would
tike information on how and where to sell broom corn.
He has about 75 stalks to sell.
QUESTION Ivan Gromling, Manchester, writes
that when he was young and growing up in the 1950 s
and 19605, his family used Troutaman’s Cough Syr
up, which was black in color. Where can he purchase
it today?
QUESTION A reader from Upper Dauphin
wants to know how to remove black soot from the out
side of copper kettle and how to restore it.
QUESTION Mary Pazzaglia, Columbia Cross
Roads, wants addresses for suppliers for chipwood
baskets that measure 4'A -inch wide and 3'/« -inch
deep, and 2% -inches high.
QUESTION—Terry Lowe, New Park, is hoping to
purchase wood or coal grates for a Wincroft
#BBBB2R cookstove, made in Middletown.
QUESTION Evan Weidman, Westfield, would
like information about old cookers that he has. On
top, it says American Cooker, patented Nov. 29,
1910, other patents pending, No. 70. the other one
says the same thing but has a No. 66 on it. He'd like to
know who made them and any other instructions.
QUESTION Carl Detwiler, Zionsville, wants to
-know where to get wire rope flemish spiced and
swaged.
ANSWER N. Kring, Carinbrook, wanted to
know where to purchase Dick and Jane readers. A
reader wrote they can be purchased at Burkholder’s
Fabrics, 2155 W. Route 897, Denver, PA. Phone
(717) 336-6692.
ANSWER David Simpler, 2645 Old Field Pt.
Rd., Elkton, MD. raises and trains beagles and finds it
costs more to go to the vet than to a medical doctor.
He would like old homemade remedies and good old
dog knowledge on do-it-yourself treatments of any
kind. Many medicines are becoming unavailable for
non-professional people, but he had heard that motor
oil, sulfur, salt, and kerosene mixed together will treat
mange and itch. Linda Jedju writes that a mixture of
motor oil, sulfur, salt, and kerosene will kill his poor
beagels. The mixture is toxic. Prevention is the best
home remedy, she writes. Clean pens, clean water,
quality protein dog food, and tender loving care.
Good, economical dog care products are available
through Jeffers Pet Catalog 1-800-533-3377. Or call
PBS Livestock Health (1-800-321-0235). Linda
admonished that if you are too cheap to contact a vet,
don't own a dog.
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