814-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 7,2001
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QUESTION - L. Casteel
wants to know the value of
10- and 20-quart White
Mountain ice cream freeze
rs electrified with jacks and
motors. In the past the
freezers were used to
make homemade ice cream
for festivals, but most of
the workers have grown
older and the work is too
difficult to continue. None
of the younger generation
seems to be interested.
QUESTION - Linda Alie
bach, Harleysville, wanted
to know if anyone had a
copy of Paul Harvey’s ren
dition, “On the Eighth Day
God Made A Farmer. Mail
the answer to 435 Moyer
Rd. Harleysville, PA 19438.
QUESTION - A reader
wants to buy a thermostat
cord for a Farberware Auto
matic Griddle model 260.
Call (717) 248-5242.
QUESTION - M.L.
Smyer, York, wants inform
ation on lightening bugs.
She writes a delightful anti
dote about when she was
17 years old and a boy tried
to impress her by releasing
three shoe boxes of light
ening bugs in front of her.
Pennsylvania Cherry Production Down 25
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Pennsylvania’s 2001 tart
cherry production is forecast at
4.6 million pounds, 25 percent
below last year’s total production
of 6.1 million pounds, according
to the Pennsylvania Agricultural
Statistics Service.
Sweet cherry production
She said the display was
beautiful and better than
any firecracker display.
Since then she has been
trying to find out more
about the bugs. She took a
dead one from a spider
web and discovered the
have lungs like air pockets.
She hasn’t heard of any
thing destructive in their
behavior. They don’t seem
to eat any plants or leaves
but only grass. She thinks
the lightening bug’s prima
ry purpose must be for
beauty. Anyone know more
about the lightening bug?
QUESTION - Bill Greer,
Richwood, W.V., wants a
source to purchase and in
formation on power take
off potato diggers.
QUESTION - Mark
Siegrist, Fredericksburg,
requests the words and
music to the old song,
“You’ll Never Miss Your
Mother ’til She’s Gone.”
Send information to Mark
at 1051 Pine Grove Rd.,
Fredericksburg, PA 17026.
QUESTION - Paul Helm
requests the card game
“Touring;” a child’s book
“There was an old Woman;”
and the poem, “When I Get
Married” by Edgar Guest.
Write to Helm at 1715 Hans
Herr Drive., Willow Street,
PA 17584.
QUESTION - Jackie
Hall, Saxe, Va., wants in
structions to make the col
ored moss on rock. She
thinks it includes yogurt.
Editor’s Note: I am not fa
miliar with the instructions
using yogurt; however, I re
member instructions re
quiring bluing and Mercu
rochrome combined to put
on several pieces of coal. If
someone has the instruc
tions, please send.
QUESTION - Harold
Stoudt, Hamburg had a
beautiful pink double rose
bud azalea of the ever
green variety. It was con
tainer grown and died this
spring from root strangula
tion. She wants to know
where she could buy a re
placement in her area. She
wants a field grown variety
only because she lost nu
merous container-grown
plants from too dense of
root mass. It must be a
double pink rosebud aza
lea.
QUESTION - Robert
Fleckenstein wants a Ja
cob’s Pharmacy Xmas
forecast at 550 tons, 10 percent
more than last year’s total pro
duction of 500 tons.
U.S. tart production for 2001 is
forecast at 357 million pounds,
up 24 percent from last year.
This is the highest level since
1995 when 396 million pounds
were produced. In Michigan, the
building (Town Square
-1992) available exclusive to
Coca-Cola employees and
bottlers.
QUESTION - E. Weaver
wants to know where to get
a small family-sized cream
separator, preferably a
used one.
QUESTION - Mrs. Adin
M. Hoover wants to know
where to find soap flakes
containing caustic soda or
lye for laundry use. She
used to get it by the barrel
from M&G Soap Company,
but doesn’t know if the
company is still in busi
ness.
QUESTION - Sylvia Mur
phy, Ulster, inherited a
woven coverlet made in
Clinton County by J.H.
Marsh & Co., Salona, 1841.
The coverlet is woven in
red, blue, green, and cream
colors. Sylvia wants to
know if anyone knows any
thing about the design and
weavers.
QUESTION - A reader
needs directions on how to
play the game, “All about
Lancaster County.” Send to
Larry Stump, 1396 Fish and
Game Rd., East Berlin, PA
17316.
QUESTION - A reader
wants to know where to
purchase half-gallon size
freezer boxes.
QUESTION - A reader
would like to know where
to purchase the following
used books at a reasonable
price: “America’s Wild
Creatures,” a series of sto
ries from “Readers’ Di
gest;” “Joy of Gardening”
by Dick Raymond; and
“Square Foot' Gardening”
by Mel Bartholomew.
QUESTION - A reader
wants instructions for mak
ing jel candles.
QUESTION - Arlene
Lingle, Boalsburg, wants to
know where she can pur
chase green roof paint, not
rust-o-leum. She writes
that the paint is like the sil
ver and black with fiber.
The source she had does
not sell it anymore.
QUESTION - A Leola
reader wants to know
where to buy good, un
breakable plastic freezer
boxes. She has some that
are 30 years old and still
durable, but the newer
ones get cracks in the lids
and bottoms. Is there a
method to repair the crack
ed containers?
QUESTION - T.S., Get
tysburg, wants to know
where to purchase a wood
en Humphrey’s veterinary
case and related bottles.
The case and bottles are
embossed with a horse
head with a flowing mane.
QUESTION - The Yoder
largest producing state, the ex
pected harvest is 293 million
pounds, up 47 percent from last
year’s crop.
The U.S. sweet cherry crop is
forecast at 235,950 tons, up nine
percent from 2000 and two per
cent above 1999. This is the high
est sweet cherry forecast on re-
family is restoring an old
spring wagon, with the
name W&H Rowland
Philadelphia stamped on
the springs. Does anyone
know when this company
was in business?
QUESTION - Mrs. Luke
Hoover, Mifflinburg, wants
to know where to buy flow
er bulb baskets, used to
grow and store bulbs, at a
low price.
QUESTION - Stephanie
Luckenbaugh, Abbotts
town, is looking for a recipe
or instructions on making
dandelion shampoo.
QUESTION - Diana Han
sen, Turnersvllie, N.J.,
would like instructions for
making braided rugs from
rags or the craft for painted
floor mats.
QUESTION - Earl Brin
ton, Severn, Md., has a
problem with crows nesting
in his area. This resulted in
no baby robins last year.
What can be done to dis
courage crows from set
tling in residential neigh
borhoods?
ANSWER - Matt Make
ski wanted information on
Irish Dexter cattle. P. West
over writes that a breeder
is in Quarryville and he,
himself is a breeder at
2445 Ridge Rd., Windsor
Mill, Md. 21244. Write or
visit him for more informa
tion. Pete also adds that he
gets a kick out of this col
umn. He writes that when
he inquired on how to make
a human yoke, a reader re
sponded by building him
one. Pete is only one of
many who write of their ap
preciation for this column
that provides answers to
their questions.
ANSWER - Louise Ober
holtzer, Shippensburg,
wanted the music to the
songs, “Home On the
Range” and “Country
Roads.” A reader sent in
the words, but she wanted
the music, which we can’t
reproduce. I suggest she
check with her local library.
ANSWER - Frank Rice,
Slain, wanted the words to
“Wildwood Flower” and to
“Bury Me Not On the Lone
Praire.” Last week I wrote
that we would no longer
publish the words to songs
and poems since they take
up too much room. How
ever, both of these weres
mailed before that notice,
so we will print these. The
first one is from Becky
Martin, Penn Yan, N.Y. The
second poem is from Scott
Wetmore who also mailed a
tape of the song. We can
not forward information.
Please do not mail items to
forward. We can only print
information in this column.
Mr. Rice contact Scott at
(610) 381-3719, for he
knows quite a bit of inform-
cord. California, Michigan, and
Washington expect to produce
more cherries than last year.
while Oregon is forecasting total
production to be 27 percent
below that of last year.
ation about the poem and
would be happy to fill you
in on the details.
Wildwood Flower
She is waiting for me, ’neath
the rose covered bower.
Her eyes are violets after a
shower.
For she’s draming sweet
dreams in the long summer
hours.
She’s my sweetheart, my own
frail wildwoodflower.
All the wild forest creatures
are under her spell
On her shoulder, the dove its
secrets will tell.
All the sky dappled fawns
come to lie at herfeet.
She’s my own wild flower so
gentle so sweet.
I will pick tender blossoms
to twine in her hair.
Blushing roses so red and the
lilies so fair.
Lovely myrtle so bright with
its emerald blue
Modest buttercups, yellow
forget-me-nots too.
No artist can paint her, no
poet can write
How she warms this cold
world like a sunbeam so bright.
Her laughter it echoes like
ripples at play
And my cares like my heart
she has stolen away.
Hand in hand through the
wildwood together we stray.
She will sing, she will dance,
and my heart she wile away.
I shall love and protect her
and never depart.
From this frail wildwood
flower that twines round my
heart.
Bury Me Not On The Lone
Prairie
O’ bury me not on the lone
prairie
These words came sad, and
mournfully
From the pallid lips of a
youth who lay
On his dying bed, at the
close of day.
It matters not, so I’ve been
told
Where the body lies, when
the heart grows cold
But grant o’ grant, this wish
to me
Bury me not on the lone
prairie.
Bury me not on the lone
prairie
Where coyotes how, the wind
blows free
In a narrow grove, six by
three
O’ bury me not on the lone
prairie.
O’ bury me not, his voice
failed there
We took no heed, of his
dying prayer
In a narrow grave, six by
three
We buried him there, on the
lone prairie.
And the cowboys now, as
they roam the plains
They mark a spot, where his
bones were laid
Fling a handful of roses, for
his grave
With a prayer to God, His
soul to save.
ercent