1 ask f? 01/1 This column is for read ers who have questions but don’t know who to ask for answers. “You Ask—You Answer” is for non-cooking ques tions. When a reader sends in a question, it will be printed in the paper. Read ers who know the answer are asked to respond by mailing the answer, which will then be printed in the paper. Questions and Answers to this column should be addressed to You Ask—You Answer, Lancaster Farm ing, P.O. Box 609, Ephrata, PA 17522. Attention: Lou Ann Good. Or, you may e-mail ques tions and answers to Igoo d.eph@lnpnews.com Please clarify what ques tion you are answering when responding. Do not send a seif-ad dressed, stamped envelope for a reply. If we receive the answer, we will publish it as soon as possible. Please include your phone number because we some times need to contact the person to clarify details. We will not publish your phone number unless you request it. QUESTION - Robert Finke, Seven Valleys, writes that he has an iron-age po tato planter with lettering on the fertilizer bin, but he can’t decipher all the let ters and asks if someone could fill in the missing blanks. The words read: Iron Age Improved (blank) Potato Planter (blank) (blank) (blank) N.J. QUESTION - Donald Jones, 734 Cedar Lane, Perkasie, PA 18944, is looking for copies of York County newspapers, maga zine articles, photographs, and personal recollections about the firm Frazer Farm Equipment Company, maker of the rototiller. The firm had been located in York at 6th Ave. corner of Ogontz St. in 1947 and later until 1949 at 1320 W. Market Street. Jones can also be reached by phone Quilt Odyssey To GETTYSBURG (Adams Co.) Quilt Odyssey, an annual quilt show and symposium, will take place at the All Star Sports Cen ter located four miles south of the square in Gettysburg on Old Business Route 15 from Aug. 2-5. Quilts from the annual contest which is sponsored by Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Pfaff, Ber nina, Husqvarna-Viking, Broth er, P&B Textiles, EZ Quilting by Wright’s and Roxanne Products will be on exhibit. These quilts come from all over the U.S. from Maine to California even Ha waii. This ycai, (he exhibit in cludes quilts from Canada. at (215) 795-2844 after 7 p.m. QUESTION - Verna Nolt, 575 New Holland Rd, New Holland, PA 17557, wants to buy a school house bell. State price, size, and con dition. QUESTION - Mrs. Wilma Fisher, Elliottsburg, asks if anyone knows of a way to obtain seeds from “carpet of snow” flowers, which are planted in a garden in memory of her son who died recently in an acci dent. She really wants to continue using these origi nal flowers if possible. She also asks if she can obtain seeds from other flowers such as salvia. QUESTION - A Somer set reader wants to know how to clean milk cans that have been sprayed with a cooking spray such as Pam to keep them from rusting. They also need to be cleaned on the outside. What is the correct proce dure for cleaning milk cans and where can cleaners, brushes, and supplies to clean the cans without harming the finish be pur chased. QUESTION - A reader wants information on the poison sumac plant, espe cially how to get rid of it. QUESTION - Linda Alle 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 - 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 Japan, England and The Nether- through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to hire on “Dating Old Quilts” at never dreamed it would get inter lands. In the same location will 4 p.m. on Sunday. the Allstar. Tickets must be pre- national attention from quilters be an antique quilt exhibit featur- Historical lectures will be of- purchased for “light lunch and around the world. “It is exciting ing quilts from Franklin, York, fered, both as a “light lunch and lecture.” to hear from quilters from the far and Adams counties, plus an ex- lecture” and in the evenings. On Phyllis Twigg, a certified AQS reaches of the U.S. and around hibit of Tifaifai (Tahitian appli- Friday, Aug. 3, there will be a appraiser, will be on hand at the t4ie Quilting brings people que) quilts. The exhibits help to light lunch and extensive slide Eisenhower to offer her services. st f tes Melissa. And show how quilting has evolved as lecture at noon on the York If you are interested in having 14 s B°°“ * or the soul, an art form. A large merchants County Documentation project your family heirloom appraised nnllh mall with more than 85 mer- given by Joan Hamme and Bar- for insurance purposes —or sim- io a m to 5o m e-mail chants will offer the latest in fab- bara Garrett. At 8 p.m., Jeana ply out of curiosity appoint- Q u j|jr ’ odyssey at dmoli ric (including Civil War repro- Kimball will lecture on pioneer ments can be made before the no@mail.cvn.net or write to duction fabrics), quilting gadgets, women and their quilts at the Ei- show by calling Quilt Odyssey at Q u j| t odyssey at 15004 Burnt frames, furniture, sewing ma- senhower Inn next to the Allstar, the number below. Min R o ad, Shippensburg. PA chines, books, supplies and quilt- Saturday evening at 6:30, Jeana Started because of her love of 17527. Registration, contest, and related gifts and merchandise. Kimball will lecture on 19th Cen- quilting and at the urging of fam- accommodation information also Exhibit and met chant mall hours tury applique at the Eisenhower, ily and friends, the founder of can be found at Quilt Odyssey’s are 10 a.m. to .6 Anita Shackelford will lec- .Quilt Odyssey, Melissa Molino, Website: www.quiltodyssey.com. . „„„„i -J r -- rr |i ,i * 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 - 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 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 - 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 - The Yoder 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 - Stephanie Open Aug. 2 In Gettysburg Luckenbaugh, Abbotts town, is looking for a recipe or instructions on making dandelion shampoo. QUESTION - Diana Han sen, Turnersville, 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 - L. Casteel wanted 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 had been used to make homemade ice cream for festivals, but most off the workers have grown older and the work is too difficult for them to contin ue. Thanks to Verna Nolt, 575 New Holland Rd., New Holland, PA 17557, who writes that she doesn’t know the value but is inter ested in buying the 10-quart freezer. She would like to know the price and condition before making the final decision. ANSWER - M.L. Smyer, York, requested informa tion on lightening bugs. She wrote 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. 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. Thanks to Catherine Goubeaux, Stras burg, who clipped an arti cle from her local newspa per that had been written by Sonia Randall, Oregon. According to the printed in formation, the fireflies light is produced in one of the rear segments of its abdo men. Its ability to turn the light on and off is called flashing and is believed to be a means of communicat ing courtship. Most females do not fly but perch on a grass or twig and flash a light at regular intervals. Soon a male will respond and al ight beside her. Several varieties of fire flies have varying lengths of time between flashes and different shades of lights but each species can identify its own kind. More than 130 different flashing patterns have been ob served. Ancient Romans called they flying stars. Light from a bottle full of fireflies were used to perform an emer gency operation during the Spanish-American War. It has been observed that frogs that swallow a large number of fireflies will begin to glow themselves. Fireflies kept in a jar too long will lose their glow and eventually die. Al though young fireflies take up to a year to develop, the adult life is only a few days or weeks. The firefly is considered a beetle although it has a soft-sided body. Young fire flies, called larvae, and the nonflying females are often called glowworms. Some larvae even glow inside an egg. Fireflies are not the only living organism that can produce light called biolu minescence. Some deep sea creatures and fish can glow in the dark but they cannot turn their lights off and on. Scientists have tried but not succeeded in duplicat ing this cold light that is different from the warm light produced electrically by a light bulb. ANSWER Susanna Fisher, Lewistown, sends another view of Jackie Hall’s question about moss growing on rock. Susanna writes that several years ago she read an article by a gardener specializing in planter gardens. She want ed green algae or moss to grow on terracotta, stone, concrete planters and any semi-porous surfaces to give them character so they would not be so stark and harsh. She painted a damp pot with plain yogurt. The green moss grows within weeks instead of months and years that na ture normally requires. If you add an extra layer of yogurt every week or two, it speeds up the process. This method may be used while plants are growing in side. The moss will grow faster if the pot is damp ened occasionally but don’t use a harsh spray of water or it will wash off the yo gurt. If you ever want to re move the green growth, use bleach.