812-Lancaster farming, Saturday, October 4, 2003
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QUESTION - A reader is
looking for the children’s
storybook, “Queer Dear
Mrs. Goose” by Miriam Pot
ter. If someone has one
they would sell, please
contact resident at 454
Smokepipe Rd., Souderton,
PA 18964.
QUESTION - Debbie
Becker is looking for belts
and a dealer who sells
them for a 5 ft. finish
mower made by FMC Cor
poration (Lindon, LA). The
model is a sidewinder.
Write or call her. Debbie
Becker, 813 BLJEM Road,
Pottstown, PA 19464-2005.
(610) 970-9166,
QUESTION - A reader
wants to know if anyone
knows where she could buy
another utility cart (might
be called a serving cart) to
use in her kitchen? She’s
had hers for 10 years and
can’t find any like it in the
stores. The cart is
30-inches high and has
three shelves which mea
sure 21 in. by 15 in. She
doesn’t want a wooden
cart.
QUESTION A reader
wants to know the name
and phone number of a
person who sells Discov
ery toys so that she might
be able to get a Discovery
toy replaced that is bro
ken. She wrote that the
Discovery toys have a
guarantee on them that
they will be replaced if
broken.
QUESTION - Anna Zim
merman, 30 Wildwood
Lane, Newville, PA 17241,
would like to know if some
one has the book called
“Life in the Slow Lane (Cov
ered Bridges)” that they
would be willing to sell.
Also: “The Old Barn.”
Phone: (717) 776-3274.
QUESTION - Lynn
Rossi, Lititz, wants to know
where to have a copper pot
polished. She doesn’t want
to do it herself.
QUESTION - Stevie
Stief is looking for a half
pint embossed Tulpehock
en Dairy Farms milk bottle
or any related items to that
dairy. Call Stief at (610)
488-0682.
QUESTION - Hannah
Coles, Bridgeton, N.J.,
wants to know where to
purchase citron for can
ning.
QUESTION Susan Nolt,
8865 Old 22, Bethel, PA
19507, wants to find a pic
ture of a guardian angel
guarding a boy and girl
crossing a worn-out foot
bridge. She remembers one
from her childhood home
and would like to have one
now. If you would like to
part with yours or know
where to buy them, please
reply.
QUESTION - B. Resau,
7020 Chaneysville Rd.,
Clearville, PA 15535, needs
three hinges (hinges are on
the right side as you face
the stove) for a Colombian
cookstove made by Keeley
Stove Co., Columbia, Pa.
Model number 18, serial
number 590.
QUESTION - Wilson
GorreH, Forest Hill, Md., is
trying to find information
on a single wheel, manual
push-type garden seeder
and where to buy the metal
seed plates (especially for
lima beans). No indentifica
tion plate can be seen and
the planter is estimated to
be 40-50 years old. The
seed box is round and ap
pears to be cast iron.
QUESTION - Terry
Bender, Lebanon, found an
old incubator and wants to
know its worth. Printed on
the side are these words:
The Old Trusty Incubator
Man, fd by MM Johnson,
Cory Center USA Pat Oct.
20, 1903-Feb. 16.
QUESTION - Charles
Eberhart, Mifflinburg,
wants to know where to
find large American Eagle
decals, like those used on
milk cans. He can’t find
them in his area.
QUESTION - L. G., Man
heim, wants to know how
to keep yellow Jackets
away from a hummingbird
feeder.
QUESTION - Ben Kin
singer, Meyersdale, wants
a IHP IHC Mogul Gas en
gine for parts.
QUESTION - Leroy
Riehl, Millerstown, wants to
know if anyone has an en
cyclopedia set from the
year 2000 or since for sale
at a good price. Call (717)
438-3837.
QUESTION - Sarah
Stoltzfus, 1319 Tanning
Yard Rd., Peach Bottom, PA
17563, wants to purchase a
treadle sewing machine
cabinet in any condition.
Please write to her stating
the price and condition.
QUESTION - Jim Bow
ersox, Lititz, has a stock
cane with the name Bow
er&Bower stamped on it.
Can anyone identify the
orgin of this cane? Perhaps
it was a promotional item
for an auctioneer or cattle
company. Anyone with in
formation, should mail it in
as many of our readers are
interested in livestock-re
lated companies.
QUESTION - Jenna Gil
patric is looking for a
source for sugarless chew
ing tobacco. She got it from
Fred Stoker and Sons.
Jenna writes the company
has automated and discon
tinued their handpacked
line of which the sugarless
chew was part.
QUESTION - S. Seller
wants to know where to
buy either a new or used
alarm clock by Westclox
Model 47544 called the
Power Napper.
QUESTION - Ella Ris
sler, Port Trevorton, wants
to know if anyone knows
anything about a flower
shop with the name.“ Lucy
Wanner.” Ella has a minia
ture basket of flowers,
which she things might be
an antique. Stamped on the
bottom are the words: Lucy
Wanner, “flourel specialist
in slicks.” Home and bridal,
949 Pleasant View Rd.,
Ephrata, PA 17522.
QUESTION - Roy Rout
zahn, Clear Spring, Md., is
looking for someone who
knows where to buy pro
cessed tobacco stems,
leaves, or any tobacco
scraps for farm use. Call
(301) 745-3557.
QUESTION - Wilson
Gorrell, Forest Hill, Md., is
trying to find information
on a single wheel, manual
push-type seeder and
where to buy the metal
seed plates (especially for
lima beans). No identifica
tion plate can be seed and
the planter is estimated to
be 40-50 years old. The
seed box is round and ap
pears to be cast iron.
QUESTION - In William
sville, New York, outside of
Buffalo, there is a former
gas station/minimart of
which Polly E. Mathys,
Spring City, Pa. is part
owner. She writes: "We are
selling the ground, and the
building will in all likelihood
be torn down. In this build
ing are store-type items
such as display shelves, a
walk-in cooler with five
glass door fronts, and five
6-foot-long chest coolers
(you know the kind you
reach into in the store to
get your Popsicle or what
not). The buyer of the
ground doesn’t want them
and neither do we. But
rather than get a certified
refrigerant remover to
come in and then trash all
this equipment, we’re look
ing for a food bank, a farm,
a produce stand, or whoev
er to come to Williamsville
and claim these items.
None of this stuff is new,
but to our knowledge, it ail
worked the last time the
electricity was on.” Call
Polly at (610) 495-6185 for
more information.
QUESTION - L. T.
Burke, Southampton, wants
to know where to buy out
door iron furniture from the
19605-1970 s that is in new
or very good condition. He
wants straight and rocking
chairs.
QUESTION - Naomi
King, Lititz, wants to know
where to purchase replace
ment thermos lids with at
tached spouts to drink
from. They are the 2-quart
Rubbermaid jugs with
screw-on lids.
QUESTION - Betty
Jakum, Littiestown, wants
to know where to purchase
a gasoline-powered rotary
lawn mower that cuts 18
inches or less to use for
trimming.
QUESTION - Diane
Gray, 70 Damascus Rd.,
Blandon, PA 19510, wants
information and bottles
from the former Lebanon or
Lebanon Valley Dairy.
QUESTION - Marie Hix
son, Crystal Spring, wants
to know how to grow wild
rice. They live on a farm
with some wet areas that
she believes would be suit
able for growing rice. Any
one know where she can
find information?
QUESTION - Warren
Glidewell, Bloomsburg,
wants to know where to
find Flemish giant rabbits
in a fawn color.
ANSWER - Bea Johnson
wanted to know where to
find a glass milk bottle
from Abbott’s Dairy.
Thanks to Charles Focht,
Carlisle, who wrote that he
is an historian and a collec
tor off Abbott’s Dairies and
would be glad to help her
with any questions about
Abbotts. Phone: (717)
258-8788.
ANSWER - Jim e-mailed
that he wants to know
where to get cow manure
from a farm. He said he
would load it in his pickup
and unload in the garden.
Thanks to the reader who
wrote: “Jim, just drive your
pickup to any farm and ask
about manure.” Editor adds
the farm should have live
stock.
ANSWER - Mary from
West Virginia wanted to
know where to purchase
the sugar substitute called
Brown Sugar Twin. Thanks
to the reader who sent an
e-mail with the following
information she found: Web
address: http://
www.low-carb.com/
info.html. The Low Carb
Connoisseur, 1520 East
Greenville St., Anderson,
SC 29621; phone Monday
thru Friday, 8:30 a.m.-6
p.m. EST, (864) 224-2477
or (888) 339-2477; fax or
ders to (864) 261-7750.
ANSWER —A Quarryville
reader wants to know the
words to the poem “Thank
you Lord, for Dirty Dishes.”
Many thanks to four read
ers, who wrote from Leba
non, Port Treverton, Para
dise, and New Freedom.
Each of theirs began with
“Thank God” instead of
“Thank you, Lord” but per
haps this is the poem she
wanted:
Thank God for dirty dishes
They have a tale to tell
While others may go hun
gry.
We’re eating very well.
With home and health and
happiness
We should not want to
fuss
For by the stack of evi
dence
God’s been very good to
us.
M.Martin wrote: “it’s
been years since I saw that
motto but while I was grow
ing up, my Mom had it
hanging in her kitchen
where we could see it while
washing dishes and I’ve
never forgotten it.” Also,
thanks to another reader
who e-mailed a long poem
about dirty dishes and also
many other household
chores for which we should
be thankful.
ANSWER The reader
from Port Treverton also
responded to the request
from the Quarryville reader
for a poem about baby
ferns. She sent the follow
ing poem:
Baby Ferns
Oh, what shall we do, this
long winter through...
The baby ferns cried when
the mother fern died.
The wind whistled bleak,
the woodland was drear
And on each baby’s
cheek,' there glistened a
tear.
When down from the sky,
like a flutter of wings,
There came a whole cloud
of tiny white things.
They trooped on a heap
where the baby ferns lay,
And put them to sleep
that bleak winter day.
Tucked under the snow in
their little brown hoods,
Not a thing would they
know, those babes in the
woods.
Till sometime in Spring
when the bobolinks sing, ’
They will open their eyes
to the bluest of skies.