YORK (York Co.) On
Saturday, June 26, from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m., the first Annual
Pennsylvania Herb Festival will
be held in Old Main Building of
the York Expo Center (formerly
York Fairgrounds) in York. The
day will be filled with plenty of
activities including seminars on
aromatherapy, backyard herbal
pharmacy, and making herbal
soaps. Renowned speakers
include Rosemary House,
founder and author; Bertha
Reppert, Don Haynie from
Buffalo Springs Herb Farm,
Alloway Garden’s Barb Steele,
Nancy Ketner of Sweet Earth,
Dr. Geraldine Depoala, Delores
Kirshner of Classics Flower and
Herb, and Maryanne Schwartz
of the Herb Basket. Cashtown
Inn chef George Keeny will con
duct an outdoor cooking demon
stration with Herbs on the Grill.
Authors will be signing their
books and more than 60 vendors
will be selling plants and lots of
herbal and garden related items
while sharing their unique
knowledge and love of herbs.
You Ask, You Answer
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QUESTION Ada B. Zook is looking for the
words to a song that contains the following words:
“Dry pasture, dry pasture, no feed for the cattle, no
grass on the ranges, no clouds in the sky. There’s
black buzzards circling, your ears are bare leather, git
along little doggie or you’re bound to die."
QUESTION Henry Chase 111, 345 Center Rd.,
Charleston, ME 04422, is searching for a hand-held
corn sheller.
QUESTIQN Karen Mull, Elizabethtown, would
like to know where to purchase an agitator for an
electric butter churn manufactured by Alabama Man
ufacturing Co. The agitator is plastic. The motor sets
on top of a barrel shaped 3-gallon jar. The agitator fits
on the lid inside the jar. The company must have
gone out of business because letters addressed to
the address on the motor are returned. Anyone know
where to find an agitator?
QUESTION Anna Bonham, Honesdale, would
like to know where to purchase dolls of Princess Di’s
and Prince Charles’ wedding and Fergie’s wedding
dolls.
QUESTION Nancy Wallace, Lancaster, pur
chased a Niagara lounge chair with heat and rolling
massage years ago. Now she needs service but
doesn't have a current address. She tried Brocton,
N.Y., but the letter was returned.
QUESTION Tom Salvadore, Newtown, wants
to know where to purchase wood chisel handles for
Stanley Wood Chisels #750 for several sizes ranging
from % - to IVs -inches.
QUESTION G. Sweitzer, Airville, would like to
know the chemical recipe for the solution in which
apples were dipped prior to cold storage over the
winter. What else can be done to improve the texture
of York Imperial apples stored at 32 degrees?
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Herb Festival
Master Gardeners from
Dauphin, Cumberland, York and
Adams counties will also be pro
viding demonstrations and
information on subjects such as
antique roses and edible flowers,
creating a living wreath, plant
ing a bucket o’ bugs, natural
dyes, and hard to find antique
roses. Lots of herbal and garden
ing items donated by the ven
dors and Master Gardeners,
including the thyme bench and
the living herbal wreaths, will
be given away continuously
throughout the festival.
Peter Rabbit’s Lavender
Lookout for youngsters will
include a Farm Animal Learning
Center and a Reading Corner.
There will be hands-on fun
activities for children like mak
ing potpourri, planting lavender,
and creating herbal leaf prints
and pressed flower note cards.
An added feature of the festi
val will be a container and spe
cial plant contest, with prizes
and ribbons awarded to the best
entries in 10 categories.
Participants can enter herbs
grown as a topiary, a standard,
or as a bonsai specimen. In addi
tion, herb enthusiasts can enter
combinations of five herbs and
flowers grown in a pot, a straw
berry jar, a homemade container,
an um, a window box, a hanging
basket, or any reused container
such as a helmet, kettle lunch
bucket, or toy. The contest is
open to any individual or organi
zation. There is no fee to enter
the contest. Official rules are
available from the Pa. Herbfest
committee at the phone number
listed below.
Admission is $4 at the door.
Children under 12 get in free
and parking is free. For more
information call (717) 528-7979
or e-mail: PAHERBFEST®
yahoo.com.
Ways To Reduce Debt
WEST CHESTER (Chester
Co.) Are you buried in debt?
Do you fight a seemingly hope
less battle to reduce your credit
card balances? Would you like to
learn how to get more from your
credit dollar, obtain a copy of
QUESTION Shirley Miller, Nazareth, wants a
candy thermometer that can be used in the micro
wave. Everywhere she looks, she can only find the
kind that cannot be used in the microwave. Anyone
know where she can find one?
QUESTION Patricia StoKzfus, Honey Brook, is
collecting milk moustache ads. Anyone able to help
her, write to 1395 Suplee Rd., Honey Brook, -PA
19344.
QUESTION Mitch Hughes, Frankford, W.V.,
wants to purchase old metal signs advertising Dr. Le
■i Gear products, with a picture of the world’s largest
horse, a Percheron.
QUESTION Myra Byers, 2420 Lemar Rd., Mer
cersburg, PA 17236-9616, is looking for a crochet
pattern for a wall hanging that spells "Home Sweet
Home."
QUESTION Anna Zimmerman, Box 2351, R. 2,
Fleetwood, PA 19522, is looking for the following
books; “Lift My Lamp,” by Anna Balmer Myers; “White
Mother" by Jessie Bennett Sams; and “Treasurers in
an Oatmeal Box," which is a story about a retarded
boy.
QUESTION Anna Newswanger, 185 S. Pool
Forge Rd., Narvon, PA 17555, would like to know if
anyone will sell her a book, "Memoirs of Chur
chtown,” by Levi B. Yoder 1831-1906.
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Canning Workshop
WEST CHESTER (Chester
Co.) Take advantage of boun
tiful, locally grown fruits and
vegetables by preserving the
harvest safely. Whether you
have your own garden or visit
one of Chester County’s
orchards or farms to get your
fresh produce in season, leam
the art of proper canning as an
historically economical alterna
tive to that trip to the grocery
store.
Join Trudy Dougherty, family
living agent, Penn State
Cooperative Extension, on
your credit bureau file, and
avoid traps card issuers set to
get more of your money?
If so, come to a free workshop,
“10 Ways to Reduce Debt,” spon
sored by Penn State Cooperative
Extension on Tuesday, June 15
QUESTION Raymond S. Fisher, Rebersburg,
needs the address and phone number for Krane Pro
ducts, which sells a product called Septic Helper.
QUESTION Cheryl Lawrence, Ephrata, would
like a source to purchase Cornish Ware.
QUESTION —A reader is looking for an oversized
tin scoop for a small candy scales. She has all the
weights but needs a 10-14-inch scoop to make the
scales complete.
ANSWER For Anna Bryan, Oxford, N.J., car
doon seeds are available from Fox Hollow Seed Co.,
P.O. Box 148, McGrann, PA 16236-0148.
ANSWER To Thomas Yarnall, Gilbertsville,
who had trouble with plants turning purple and feet
swelling from walking in wet ground, Daniel Oberholt
zer recommends contacting Daniel Skow, a vet who
specializes in using high quality natural methods. He
works at a lab that researches health problems in
livestock and does all types of soil, feed, water, and
plant tissue analysis. Contact him at International Ag
Labs, Inc., 800 W. Lake Ave., P.O. Box 788, Fair
mont, MN 56031 or telephone (507) 235-6909.
ANSWER For the reader who was having trou
ble keeping deer from crops, Henry Stoltzfus, Christ
iana, writes that he has five miles of 4-inch white
nylon strap that might help to fence in the area espe
cially if combined with an electric fence. If interested
in the nylon strap, write to him at 613 Noble Rd.,
Christiana, PA 17509.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 5, 1999-823
Monday, June 21, 7;00-9:UU p.m
at the Extension office,
Government Services Center,
Suite 370, 601 Westtown Road,
West Chester, for a demonstra
tion on what equipment is need
ed, what methods may be used,
and the step-by-step process for
pressure canning and water
bath canning.
Registration is $2 per person,
due by June 14 to cover materi
als. Seating is limited, so regis
ter early! Contact the Extension
office at (610) 696-3500 for fur
ther information.
from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., at the
Extension office, Room 370,
Government Services Center,
601 Westtown Road, West
Chester.
To register or for more infor
mation, call the Extension office
at (610) 696-3500.