812-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 17, 2003 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.EPHQLNPNEW- 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 - Shirley Or fanella, Quarryville, is look ing for any good ideas on keeping flies away while dining on the porch and would also like to know where to buy easels to dis play wide bowls or other wide objects. QUESTION - Mrs. Sim eon Stoltzfus, Millersburg, wants to know if anyone has a copy of “How Great Thou Art” in a German translation. She has read that the hymn was written by a Swedish pastor and later translated into Ger ‘Liquid Fence * Keeps Wildlife From BRODHEADSVILLE (Mon roe Co.) When 85-year-old Clark Kaskie is faced with a problem, he does not get mad, he gets inventive. His most recent endeavor in volved protecting something that is very dear to him: his flowers. At his home in the Pocono Moun tains, herds of deer and rabbits were constantly eating his shrubs and gardens. He spent a small fortune trying to find a deterrent that worked, but to no avail. “I tried a four foot fence. It was ugly,” he said. Before retirement, Kaskie was a technical assistant to the presi dent of Allied Chemical Corpora tion. He is both a chemist and a chemical engineer and started an information department at Stauf fer’s Chemical. His first 23 years of work were man, Russian, and ulti mately English by mission aries to the people'of the Ukraine. Please send the German translation to her at 193 Harman Lane, Mill ersburg, PA 17061. QUESTION - Valerie Miller, Honesdale, wants to purchase a pair of wool carders in good condition for a reasonable price. As an inexperience carder, she also would appreciate tips on carding and spin ning wool. QUESTION - A reader writes that she has eight oak trees approximately 75-feet high. She would like a professional to re move them. Anyone recom mend a professional who works in the 610 area code' vicinity. QUESTION - Edna Weaver, Kutztown, writes that when she attended a one-room public school in the 19405, she read the book, “The Open Gate,” which she has never for gotten. If anyone has a copy of the book, Edna would like to buy it. Write to her at 375 Bowers Rd., Kutztown, PA 19530-9726. QUESTION - Walt Grove, Red Lion, lives in a log house for 25 years. Every year he has black bumble bees or carpenter bees that bore into the logs and eaves of the house. He has tried plugging the holes, but the bees bore into another spot. Does anyone know how to get rid of the bees permanently? QUESTION - D. Peters, Red Lion, asks where he can find five-volt G.E. light bulbs. These bulbs were used in an antique hand held Delta Powerlite lan tern. They are GE 502 and GE 425 and are screw-in type bulbs used with a square six-volt battery with spring terminals. The num ber 425 s are .5 amps/2.5 spent at Monsanto Chemical. He then worked in Oak Ridge, Ten nessee on the Manhattan Project, the global effort to split the atom. “We shipped the basics to Los Alamos,” he said. Following the war Kaskie worked on peacetime applications for nuclear power and extracted radioactive iso topes for medical use. Kaskie admits that retirement never really occurred, but after the formality he designed a self contained mobile medical clinic, complete with chest x-rays, blood sampling, visual and hearing tests, and hands-on examination by doctors. The unit now visit in dustrial plants and provides on site physicals. When he moved to Pennsylva nia, he sold that business and faced a new challenge; hungry deer and rabbits eating his valu watts and the 502 s are .15 amps/.765 watts. Peters needs only 2 or 3 bulbs. QUESTION - Lucy Nolt, Mifflinburg, wants to know if there is a way to get rid of termites without using exterminator services. It would cost $2,500 to have an exterminator do it, so the Notts prefer to do it themselves if possible. QUESTION Last sum mer Cindy Eshleman re calls seeing a magazine page that listed different types of mint plants. She doesn’t know the name or the magazine, but if anyone has a copy of an article about mint plants, she would appreciate if they would send it to her at R.D. 3, Box 7957, Jonestown, PA 17038. QUESTION - Martin Heffner Jr., Wernersville, is looking for someone to re pair a DC battery driven 14-volt motor that drives a handicapped scooter. QUESTION - Alma Stauffer, 27990 Pt Lookout Rd., Loveville, MD 20656, wants to know if there is a buyer for blue glass Vicks Vaporub jars that are full and in boxes with the pa pers. She also has various blue Noxema Jars without the lids. QUESTION - Wilma Zimmerman wants to know where a slicer-shredder at tachment and instruction booklet could be found for a Cuisinart food processor DLC-7. QUESTION - Ruth Nolt is looking for some Calvary songbooks in good condi tion. Write to Robert Brougher, 200 Beaver Run Rd., New Oxford, PA 17350 or call (717) 334-8203 with prices or information. QUESTION - A reader wants to know what to use on kitchen formica coun tertops to preserve or seal the formica to keep it from wearing down, keeping stains out and adding shine? QUESTION - A reader wants to know where the strong rubber elastic (like rubber bands) can be pur able gardens and shrubs. After being disappointed by the many animal deterrents on the market, Kaskie had no other choice but to find his own formula. It took Kaskie three years at a small workbench in his basement, but when he emerged, he had an animal repellent that satisfied his goals: all-natural, biodegradable, inexpensive, easy to apply, and 100 percent effective. For two years, he shared the product and gave it away to people in the area. Kaskie’s friends and neighbors found it worked so well, that they urged him to sell it. In July 1997, Clark and his wife Rosemary began selling his product: Liquid Fence. Business boomed and the telephone began ringing off the hook. The formula works on smell rather than taste, therefore chased to make fitted bed sheets. QUESTION - Nina Pur vin wants information about a Purvin Dairy Com pany, which operated in Lancaster during the 19405-19505. She has found some interesting bot tles, a calendar, and a poster from the company. The latest item is from 1952. She’d like any in formation someone might have about the farm and dairy. QUESTION - Cathy Heagy, Narvon, is looking for a children’s book, “The Little Boy From Shickshin ny,” which is about a boy who got mad at a cow lying down in the dark and kicked it only to find out it was really a bear. Her grandmother had a copy when Cathy was a child. QUESTION - The Ke merer family, Latrobe, want to know the price of used barn siding measuring 10-12-foot lengths and 8-10 inches in width. The wood is about 150 years old. QUESTION - Richard Laughman, Chambersburg, wants to know where a Sony Superscope reel to reel tape player can be fixed. QUESTION - Pat Hart man, Ligonier, wants to know where to find balsam. She remembers seeing the answer in this paper but lost the address. She wants the answer repeated for what balsam is and where to get it. QUESTION - A. Mary Nolt, New Holland, wants to know the value of a Zenith egg grader scale and what antique dealers are inter ested in items such as these. QUESTION - A reader is looking for a size 6 cast iron skillet, used, in good condition that they are will ing to sell. ANSWER - Kermit Laub asked where to buy Life buoy toilet soap. Thanks to several readers for answer ing. Ralph Eyster, Hum melstown; Henry Carey, Er winna; and Doris Johnson, Lyons, N.Y., write that Life buoy is listed in a catalog from The Vermont Country oraging Gardens, Shrubs the animal does not have to bite the plant and cause damage, yet once dry the odor is not detecta ble by humans. Three years into development and testing, Liquid Fence, an easy to apply spray made from natural fermented ingredients has proven to be the most effec tive way of repelling deer and rabbits. It is available as a ready to-use spray and as a concentrate to mix with water for application with popular pump-action gar den sprayers. The spray is an all natural product, harmless to peo ple and pets. It does not harm the plants, is biodegradable and safe for the environment. Award-winning garden writer Derek Fell has reported 100 per cent effectiveness in protecting plants in his Pennsylvania gar den. “We have deer in the garden Store, P.O. Box 6999, Rut land, VT 05702-6999, (802) 362-8470. ANSWER - Julia Delp, Needmore requested in formation on diatomaceous earth (DE). She asked: Does DE work well enough to be used as the sole wormer in sheep, beef, cattle and dogs? How often should it be used? Does DE irritate animals’ digestive tracts? Is any age to young to treat with DE? Can DE be fed free-choice or mixed with loose minerals? If so, at what rate? How can one ensure that all the animals are eating it? If DE kills worms and eggs, will pas tures eventually become worm-free? Thanks to Mrs. Simeon Stoltzfus, Millers burg, who writes that these questions can be answered by Diatomaceous Earth, Universal Diatoms, Inc., Al buquerque, N.M. 87102. Phone number is (505) 881-6933. ANSWER - D. Peters, Bethlehem, asked where to find curly maple veneer. Thanks to several readers who provided different sources. For other readers who are interested, the curly maple veneer is avail able from Van Dyke’s Re storers (800)558-1234 and from Rockber Woodworking and Hardware, Media, Minn. (800) 260-9663. ANSWER Janet Span gler wanted to know if any one knows how to make angels using beads and safety pins. She wanted in structions. Thanks to a reader who offers to send the instructions. Janet can request the instructions from Mary Jane Waybright, 146 Mason-Dixon Rd., Get tysburg, PA 17325. For oth ers who are interested, Be atrice Baalbit, Andreas, writes that angel kits with instructions are available from Bolek’s Craft Supplys, Inc., 330 N. Tuscarawas Ave., P.O. Box 465, Dover, Ohio 44622-0465. ANSWER - Reuben Stoltzfus, 298 S. Kinzer Rd., Paradise, PA 17562, answers Amos Seller’s re quest for the story “Five Men Against the Sea.” Stoltzfus writes that he has a large-print Reader’s Di gest magazine from 1988 that Beiler can have. almost every night” said Fell, “And we couldn’t have ornamen tal plantings without using Liq uid Fence. An application in spring when leaves are breaking dormancy, and booster applica tions at monthly intervals, con trols the deer, rabbits, and other foraging animals.” It takes just a few minutes to spray the entire yard full of plants. Even birds, butterflies, and honeybees do not mind it, but the deer and rabbits are re pelled. Repeated at monthly in tervals, the spray continues to protect plants, even through win ter when evergreens such as ar borvitae, azaleas, and hollies need it the most. To find out more about Liquid Fence Deer and Rabbit Repel lent, call toll free (800) 92-FENCE or log onto www.li quidfence.com.
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