BIG-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 24, 1999
You Ask
(Continued from P«B* B1S )
QUESTION J. Leppert, Everitt, wants to know
how to get rid of bumble bees that build in the house
eaves and dirty the siding. Is there a trap to catch
them? If so, where can it be purchased? Is there a
poison to feed them?
QUESTION Joyce A. Souder, 753 Hunsicker
Rd., Telford, is looking for milk bottles in quart and
pint sizes manufactured by H.L Aldertar
QUESTION Dorothy Starr, 480 Stover Shop
Rd., Churchvill, Va. 24421, would like to buy milk bot
tles of all sizes from Indian Run Dairy and from
Fishers Golden Guernsey Dairy of Danville.
QUESTION Jim McKelvey, Slatington, would
like to find a place to purchase oil of Citronella at a
reasonable price. He uses it to make a f lyspray to pro
tect his horse. Be can buy the citronella at drugstores
and health food stores but it is pharmacy grade and
expensive. He prefers commercial grade if available
QUESTION E.M. Snyder, Red Lion, is looking
for a radiator for G. Allis Chalmers.
QUESTION Lois K. Martin, Bridgewater, VA,
wants to purchase the following books written by
Anne Colver: “Bread and Butter Indian,” “Bread and
Butter Journey.” She would also like the book, “Lucin
da,” written by Vesta-Nadine Severs.
QUESTION —Suzy Almony wants a set of red and
white “Currier and Ives’ plates made in the U.S.A. by
Homer Laughlin.
QUESTION Karen Mull, Elizabethtown, would
like to know where to purchase an agitator for an
electric butter chum manufactured by Alabama Man
ufacturing Co. The agitator is plastic. The motor sets
on top of a barrel shaped 3-gallon jar. The agitatorf its
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 Tom Salvadore, Newtown, wants
to know where to purchase wood chisel handles for
Stanley Wood Chisels #7sofor several sizes ranging
from Vi - to IVi -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?
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.
What’s Happening At
Lancaster Extension
Elizabeth Smith
Summer Intern
“Come on guys you have to be
faster than that if you want to keep
all of these trees alive! Hurry
you’ve only got 30 more seconds
and I still don’t hear any buzzing!”
Oh, hello. Arc you here to sign
up for Elizabeth’s Professional
Bee Coaching School? We have
the finest program in the world
you know, why in just 15 short
minutes you too can be an expert
at pollination and flower identifi
cation!- We provide the know how
and the tools, all you need to have
is strong legs and the damnation to
succeed!
Elizabeth’s Professional Bee
Coaching School was just one of
the many workshops offered this
year at Lancaster County’s 4-H
Dap Camp. “Let’s Get Growing”
was the theme for the day, as both
rural and urban 4-H spent the day
learning about the many different
aspects of plants. The official title
for my workshop was really,
Plants: Pretty and Practical. The
object of the workshop was to
teach children about the import
ance of flowers and explain to
them there actual function for the
plant Since day camp is attended
by more than 70 4-H’ers. it makes
sense that I would not be going it
alone with my plant planning.
This is where my fellow summer
assistant, Paula Marshal, steps in
ready to help with every step of
pollination.
We began our workshop by
asking the children why plants
have flowers. This type of ques
tion is always sure to gamer some
odd answers and today was no dif
ferent. Usually in every group
there was one child who knew
something about pollination but
there were also others who had
more creative answers. One of the
best was a little girl who informed
me that plants had flowers so that
we can use them in weddings! I
QUESTION Daniel Armbrustey, 112 W. 33rd.
St., Reading, PA 19606, wants parts for a Distton
DOlOl chain saw, piston, fuel meter, fuel pump, fuel
system, and also Stanley electric tool parts, router
HI3B-8B base plates, depth adjustment belt sanders
.02-313x23% -inch pinion gears, Janes Slugger, 100
Mag drill, gears, output shaft, skill parts, Model 13
sander polisher, armature shaft gear nut output shaft
end bells, and output gears of shaft
QUESTION Esther Martin, Latham, wants one
or two copies The Backward Picnic,* and The Ging
ham Girls,” which were printed by Golden Books in
the mid to late 19705. Books should be in good condi
tion. Write to Esther at 39437 Excelsior Dr., Latham,
MO 65050.
QUESTION —A Snyder County reader would like
to know if anyone has Massinger Dairy milk bottles
from Middleburg. Wants, quarts, pints, half pints, and
bottle caps. Write to R. 2, Box 828, PortTrevorton, PA
17864.
QUESTION Christine Brubaker, Womelsodorf,
would like to know where to find American Plastic
Building bricks. She had these as a child and now
wishes to have some for her children.
QUESTION Debrah Giambalvo would like to
purchase a machine made by Colebrookdale Co.,
Boyertown. Her mother-in-law uses it as a cookie
machine and has had the machine for more than 40
years. Dough is added to the machine and cranked
through one of three cut-outs on its removable blade.
It also has a tip that looks somewhat like those used
to decorate cakes and one that has many small holes
as if to make spaghetti. It looks somewhat like the old
meat and nut grinders. The machine has a Pennsyl
vania keystone logo on it with a “50* in the center.
QUESTION Ralph Glass, Roaring Spring,
needs an operator's manual for a Miller transport
disc, model #2HK-5201.
QUESTION Norma McClure, Freeland, Md.,
purchased an old lamp at an auction. The top globe
was glued and separated during transporting it She
needs to know how to contact someone who can
repair glass because the globe is beautiful.
QUESTION A reader from Annville wants
paperback books from the White Indian Series by
Donald Clayton Porter. There are 30 books in the Set,
the reader needs from 21-30 in the series.
ANSWER Elsie King wanted to know where to
buy a Leifheit Cherry Ritter. Thanks to Alice Keppley,
Boyertown, who writes that the Leifheit pitters are
available through Chefs Catalog Sales Division, 111
Customer Way, Irving, TX 75037. Call
1-800-967-2433.
have to admit that this is one of
our main uses for flowers, but not
quite what I had in mind!
After going over the purpose of
flowers we began to teach the chil
dren about pollination and the im
portance of bees. In order to con
vey just how important bees are in
the pollination of flowers, Paula
and I played a game with the chil
dren called, Buzzy Buzzy Bees.
The game is played by any num
ber of people broken into groups
of trees and bees. The trees ate re
sponsible for the pollen. This
means that they can only hold and
receive pollen from the bees. The
bees job is to go Bom tree to tree
spreading around as much pollen
as possible in order to keep every
tree alive. The game is made mote
complicated by spreading die trees
apart or by increasing the number
of trees. As the children work to
pollinate every tree they begin to
realize just how important the
bees are to the process. In order to
encourage the children to really
get into the game, I stood On the
side lines providing key informa-
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ANSWER E. Weaver, East Earl, wanted to
know if there is anything besides wire that can be put
on tree trunks to keep goats from eat the bark off the
trees. Thanks to Bjarbara Warner, Bechtelsville, who
writes that she had dairy goats and borrowed an idea
from San Diego Zoo to make a more attractive and
effective bark guard: Cut tree branches about 2- to
3-inches in diameter to 5-foot lengths, or as tall as
your goat can reach, and lash the branches to the
tree trunk with wire.
ANSWER Levi Tyler, Meshoppen, and others
are having problems with green scum on their ponds
and want the barley straw solution reprinted. Here it
is: Researches confirm that straw reduces algae
growth in ponds. Barley straw works best, but wheat
straw and even cornstalks are effective, but they
need to be applied in larger amounts and more fre
quently than barley straw. For severe algae prob
lems, use 3-ounces of barley straw for every square
yard of water surface. For ongoing maintenance,
apply about half that amount in early spring, and then
every six months or when the straw has rotted away.
Place the straw inside porous net bags. Put some
thing buoyant in each bag so that the nets will float
near the surface of the water where the algae tends to
grow. Willow Pond Aqua Farms sells barley straw in
net bags. Call (716) 396-2753. Barley seeds to grow
your own straw are available from Salt Spring Seeds,
P.O. Box 444, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, BC
VBK2WI Canada, (250) 537-5269.
ANSWER B.J. Kramer, BemviHe, wanted to
replace a glass jar on a butter chum. Thanks to Han
nah King who writes that she has a 5-Inch in diameter
glass jar, one gallon size, imprinted with SCC Pat.
App. For. Write to her at 4925 Newport Rd., Kinzers,
PA 17535.
Thanks to Alice Kepplay, Boyertown, who writes
that plastic and glass replacements are available
through Lehman’s Catalog. 1 Lehman Circle, P.O.
Box 41, Kidron, Ohio 44636. Call (330) 857-5757.
ANSWER C.M. Street Fredericksburg, Va.,
wanted to know where to find the arrows and glass
balls that are made to fit on twisted iron lightning rods.
Thanks to Bari Smalley, Quakertown. for recom
mending Weather or Knot Antiques, 3139 Nbrth, U.S.
35, Dept OHJ, La Porte, IN 46350-8383. Free calk
log by writing or catling (219) 324-7257.
ANSWER —Thanks to 4fm Un*jh, Adamstqef,
for submitting the following solution for cleaning
sihrerplate. Use an agate pan. Line with aluminum
foil. To 1 quart water, add 1 teaspoon baking soda,
and 1 teaspoon salt Be sure to cover silverware with
water. Bring to a boil than transfer silver to cool water
with tongs. Dry.
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tion on how to Montand fly like a
bee. Of course this really didn’t
help the children pollinate any
better but it did get them pretty ex
cited.
All in all it was a very success
ful day. The 4-H’eis had a good
time and learned things about
plants that they never knew. I
found out new uses for flowers
and was able to add yet another ti
tle to my growing list of services.
So until next time I’m Professor
Smith reminding you to always
buzz regularly and fly straight!