814-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 2, 2002 i ask 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 LGOOD.EPHOLNPNEW- S.COM Please clarify what ques tion you are answering when responding. Do not send a self-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. However, if your question requires someone to mail items to you, you must include your address or phone number for pub lishing. QUESTION - E. Martin, New Holland, wants to know where a reasonably priced heart-shaped waffle iron can be purchased. The only place she ever sees them are in gift and spe cialty catalogs, where they seem very high priced. QUESTION - Victor Chmtira, Pottstown, would like to find out how to re move stinging nettles from his flower garden. A previ- White-Tailed Deer Managers Made Their Own Job More Difficult UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) White-tailed deer man agement can be one of the most contentious public policy issues in Pennsylvania, and wildlife managers have only themselves or their predecessors to blame, according to a wildlife sci entist in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. At the turn of the century, biol ogists had to convince hunters and the general public not to kill does to allow the deer population to increase. They did their job a little too well, contends Gary San Julian, professor of wildlife re sources. “What they said was true then, but today in many parts of the deer’s range and particularly in Pennsylvania deer popula tions have exceeded the cultural carrying capacity. In other words, there are more deer than people want in many places.” Harvesting does through hunt ing is the primary tool at the dis posal of deer mangers to control Deputation size, but there is a lin gering reluctance by some Key- ous home owner planted several plants in the gar den and now they’ve taken over the whole plot. Burn ing, bleaching, and herbi cides have killed them for a short time, but they keep coming back stronger than before. QUESTION - Mrs. Zim merman, Manheim, would like to know where the movements for a battery operated clock can be found in a store or catalog. She needs a new one for a Seth Thomas wall clock. QUESTION A reader would like to know of a mission organization that could use manual typewrit ers. Call (717) 426-3684. QUESTION - A reader would appreciate if anyone has some Macomber ruta baga seeds to sell. Or is there a seed company that sells them or another vari ety that they have tried that taste sweeter and milder than Laurentian or Ameri can yellow or American purple-top (Golden Neck less). QUESTION - Lena (Click) Lapp, 215 Old Wil mington Rd., Coatesville, PA 19320, would like to buy a milk bottle with the in scription “Click’s Dairy,” Smoketown, PA. QUESTION - Dan Yo nosh, Slatington, would like to know if someone is qual ified to repair an old Elmo Regular Bmm-Super Bmm dual movie projector, model FP-A, or if someone has a Super Bmm movie projector, any brand, in good condition to sell. Call (610) 799-2536. QUESTION - A reader is interested in purchasing a large cream separator and a butter churn capable of making 40 pounds butter or stone State hunters to kill does. To persuade them to harvest ade quate numbers of does to control deer populations, San Julian says wildlife managers have had to overcome decades of education by their predecessors, generations of woodland lore and hundreds of book chapters and magazine stories. “For many years, does could not be harvested legally,” ex plains San Julian. “When they became legal, they were consola tion prizes for hunters who could not get a buck and had to settle for a doe to put venison on the table. To many hunters, taking a doe was not thought of as ‘manly’ egos got involved.” Convincing hunters that they should harvest does has been a hard sell for agencies such as the Pennsylvania Game Commis sion, contends San Julian, but he says hunter attitudes are chang ing. “Even when people see large numbers of deer and hear about deer problems, it is hard to over come 100 years of tradition,” he says. “Today, we know that to ini' more per batch. Any in formation on these would be appreciated. QUESTION - Raymond Fisher, 531 Millheim Nar rows, Rebersburg, PA 16872, wants to know where to purchase a 2-gallon glass butter churn jar only with the opening measuring approximately 5V2-inches in diameter. Also wanted is a small scale milk jugger (bottler). QUESTION - A Millers burg reader writes that he has a cream separator model 100LPS Delaval tin with a missing float. He will consider trading it for a stainless steel bowl and motor for another cream separating unit that has the two spouts and the sepa rating discs. He has no idea what model it takes but writes that it is a good chance it might be a Delav al. Separating cone mea sures 6V4-inch in diameter. The number on the cone is 3518895. Can someone help or direct him to help? Write to 319 Minnich Rd., Millersburg, PA 17061. QUESTION - Virginia Conner, 246 Hartzler Dr., Belleville, PA 17004 is looking for a Wooly Bully Knitting Pattern of a child’s pullover and beret cabled to elbow that was sold as a kit by Family Circle in 1990. QUESTION - Jean Ben singer, 737 Summer Valley Rd., New Ringgold, PA 17960 wants information on how to make a kitchen angel with tea towels and the four to six-iine poem that goes with it. QUESTION - Anyone have Lone Ranger books written by Fran Striker to sell? A reader requests that you call (814) 349-5975 and leave a message. QUESTION - Lois Bod ine, 112 Oak Village Park way, Mooresville, N.C. 28117 wants to buy a paper flour bag from about 1940-1950 with the inscrip tion Ben Spence Flour, Bird-in-Hand. The bag may be printed with the name Edward Spence, who owned the mill before Ben jamen took over. prove the quality of our deer herds, it often is necessary to re duce populations. Hunters are helping us work on this problem. This is evidenced by how hunters have purchased antlerless hunt Hunters: Don’t Panic About CWD UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) Hunters should take the threat of chronic wasting disease (CWD) showing up in Pennsyl vania deer seriously, according to an expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, but he says they shouldn’t panic. The Pennsylvania Game Com mission recently banned the im portation of deer and elk into the state, and hunters shouldn’t have to worry much about the disease this year, according to Gary San Julian, a wildlife resources pro fessor. He believes there is “al most no chance” of chronic wast ing disease showing up in Pennsylvania deer in the near fu ture. QUESTION - Jene Maute, Elkins Park, has some old fruit trees, but is moving away. She wants to know what procedures fol low in order to successfully grow pear trees from the fruit seeds. QUESTION - Gretchen Ham, 247 Kinner Hill Rd., Pine City, N.Y., wants to know where to buy at a reasonable price a used Ashford Traveler spinning wheel. QUESTION - A reader wants to know how to get raw milk in either Schuylkill or Columbia county and wants to try making cheeses with the milk. QUESTION - Dolores Caverly, Shavertown, has a Windsor chair with a brass plate that reads: The Derby Chair made by P. Derby and Co. Inc., Gardner, Mass. She wants to know if any information is available on this chair. QUESTION - Amanda Fisher, Kinzer, wants to knon how to get an instruc tion book for a 16-quart Peerless pressure canner. QUESTION - David Lounsbury, Chester Springs, wants to know where to have old milk cans replated. What was the original coating? Was it food-grade tin plating or something else? ANSWER - Roy Decker writes that Wilmer Stauffer and others who are inter ested can propagate sweet potatoes from slips or root ed cuttings. Start them by laying a sweet potato (type of your choice) lengthwise in a bed of potting soil, keep moist and in plenty of sun. It must be warm be cause if it is exposed to temperatures of 50 de grees the plant goes into shock and won’t grow. Nor mally in about three weeks, the potato will have a num ber of small shoots growing out the side. These can be cut out and planted in a hotbed or directly in the garden after danger of frost is past. Several mail order companies offer plants for setting out, including Gur ney’s Seed and Nursery Co. 110 Capital St., Yankton, S.D. 57079, and Henry ing licenses this year. It looks like all Pennsylvania counties that offer them will sell their entire al location. “One buck can breed with nu merous does, therefore we must “We don’t want to panic peo ple,” he says. “We are just trying to protect our herds of animals and be sure that this disease doesn’t get into the state. I think that hunters need to be aware of CWD because it is in the United States, and if it does come here, it is 100 percent fatal to deer that are infected.” CWD has been detected in wild and captive herds of deer, elk and mule deer in several western states, Wisconsin and Canada. First identified in 1967, CWD is a transmissible spongi form encephalopathy that affects cervids, including all species of deer, elk and moose. It is a pro gressive and always fatal 'disease of the nervous system afflicting Field’s Seed and Nursery Co., 415 N. Burnett St., Shenandoah, lowa 51602-001. Decker writes that growers have better success with the Georgia Jet variety in northeastern Pennsylvania. ANSWER For the per son who wanted a kero sene brooder heater, David Simpler writes that he has one that is 40-inches long from fuel tank to firepot, adjustable thermostat. Also someone wanted a banana bicycle seat, which he also has. Write to him at 2645 Old Field PL.Rd„ Elkton, MD 21921. ANSWER - A reader wrote that she has lots of good quality wool pieces that would be good for making rugs. Irene Strieker writes that she will pur chase the wool to make hooked rugs. Write to her at 350 Preston Rd., Wer nersville, PA 19565. ANSWER - R. Stoltzfus, 6039 Wanner Rd., Narvon, wanted to know where to buy “The Robe.” Dale and Janie Metzler write that they operate a new and used bookstore. Cross roads Gift and Bookstore, 344 Churches Rd., Lewisburg, PA 17837. They have two copies of “The Robe” in hardcover. Call them at (570) 522-0536. ANSWER - A reader wanted to know where to buy winter seed oats that can be sown in the fall. Thanks to Henry Schwenk, East Hampton, N.Y., who writes that two kinds of seed oats can be sown. One is regular poultry oats used for animal feed. The other is truly seed oats cer tified to contain no foreign matter such as various weed seeds which poultry oats do not guarantee. Oats can be purchased at any feed store or mill. Oats should not be planted later than Sept. IS where white frost occurs around Oct. 14. Oats are killed by cold weather. harvest antlerless deer to make a substantial difference in our deer herds. Our goal should be to maintain populations at sustain able levels and to have the herd and habitat in good condition.” wild and captive cervids. Scien tists theorize that CWD is caused by an unknown agent capable of transforming normal brain pro teins into an abnormal form. Currently, there is no practical way to test live animals for CWD, nor is there a vaccine. A reliable live animal test for mule deer that involves testing the ton cilles does exist, but it is not prac tical. That test has not proven ef fective for elk and white-tailed deer. Clinical signs include poor posture, lowered head and ears, uncoordinated movement, rough hair coat, weight loss, increased thirst, excessive drooling and, ul timately, death. There is no evi dence so far of CWD having any effect on humans or other non cervid livestock.
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