Week of 11/10/24
The week started out sunny but a fair amount cooler then what most of this fall has been. That all changed by Tuesday the rest of the week it stayed cloudy with some light rain Wednesday evening and heavy rain Thursday morning before daylight. Which left the feeding lot full of calves a total mess, as well as the field where I feed the cows.
On Friday I got around to cleaning out the feed lot and giving the calves plenty of dry bedding. Which is a good thing because Ted worked the calves on Saturday vaccinating and tagging them.
Most of the mornings this week after chores I planted more walnuts. I got around 800 in the ground now. I only work till noon doing that as that is all this 92-year-old body can take anymore.
I spent a good but of time just sitting and watching the chipmunks and squirrels play. So far, I haven’t seen the squirrels dig up any of the nuts I had planted, as there are so many hickory nuts and other walnuts laying on the ground that they haven’t even started to work at that yet. Both the turkey and the deer are working the harvested corn and soybean fields. The turkeys do it in the daytime then the deer do the evening and night shifts.
Ruth got some nice orders for Thanksgiving pies. So now she will get to use her new stove for them, as McNeal Appliance brought it out Wednesday.
On Saturday I had a book signing at the Aspen Ridge Home and Garden Center in Mineral Point Wisconsin. We did real well there just about everyone who looked at the book bought one.
On Sunday afternoon I went to Oakwood Apple Orchard as Richland Center where we had left quite a bunch of books at the start of the season in August. The books were all sold out and had been for some time. We will make sure to leave more there next year.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 11/3/24
Now that the harvest is over and the garden is done, as well as the farmers market being over for this year things have sort of slowed down from what has to get done. So I have started to work in the woods. On Monday I got a couple gator loads of wood cut down from a few cherry trees that had blown over this summer. There are still some more yet to go.
I also helped Ted load out some cull cows we had culled out from the herd when we weaned the calves. Then on Tuesday it was a wet and cloudy day, so we went to look about getting a new stove as the top of the old one had cracked and to replace the top was over half the price of a new stove. So we decided that a new stove would make more sense as the old one was 14 years old and has seen a lot of use, as Ruth bakes around a thousand pies a year plus a lot of other stuff.
Wednesday, I went to planting walnuts in the woods, where I have been cutting the wood trees down for firewood. These woods are on a steep rocky hillside, so I can only work between 3 to 4 hours a day before I get severe leg cramps in the evening. I move very slow as these hill sides are slippery as heck and when I fall it gets harder to get back up each year. So, I only get about 150 planted in a day. I would like to get at least around 2000 of them planted before this falls freeze.
After that I will go to cutting wood for the house as we still use wood for heating the house in the winter. I also cut wood for our little maple syrup operation; a total needed of 12 full cords.
I also have a few chores to do now, like taking care of the weaned calves and feeding the cow herd.
I got the garlic planted this week but I didn’t plant as much this fall as the market wasn’t as good as what I had thought it would be and I have a fair amount left over. The book sales are going great, we added 2 new places to sell the book. A little store in Dodgeville called Roots to Branches and a home and garden center in Mineral Point called Aspen Ridge. We will be having a book signing event there on Saturday, November 16th going from 10 to 4. I hope to see a good turnout.
Week of 10/27/24
This week started out warm and windy, with it being 70 on Monday and by Tuesday it climbed to 81. One degree from the record of 92 set for October 29th. Wednesday is was 77 and Wednesday night we got 2 inches of rain to break a dry spell of almost two months. Then after that it cooled down to about normal for the rest of the week.
On Monday and Tuesday I went to Ted’s farm and did chisel plowing while Ted did dry tilling. Ted had got the little John Deere dozer back so he hired John to fill in washouts and redo some of the grass waterways that were washing along the sides from this summers heavy rains. On Wednesday John came to my farm to work on the ridge roads that had badly washed. I then got a bag of winter rye and seeded the rye with my little hand spinner to try to keep the roads from washing by getting a cover crop growing.
The harvest and fall field work went really well but at the low prices and very expensive inputs like fertilizer, seed, and machine costs. Lets not forget land rent, which is very high compared to the price of corn and soybeans. I believe like last year it will be a negative return per acre. Historically it has been that the farmer and the land owner get equal returns per acre. That worked from 2020 through 2022 but now with grain prices 25 percent or more lower, and the landowner still wanting over $200 per acre, the farer would have to pay out of his pocket to farm the land. It makes no sense. The sad part is a lot of these landowners are retired farmers or farm heirs and they know better or should.
On Friday here on my farm we weaned the calves and had a total of 44. On Teds farm I am not sure how many there are, maybe around 50. That is the bright spot in farming the last couple of years, as beef prices are good but don’t I don’t know if it is enough to keep it in the black.
I got a new shipment of book Friday, and I have a waiting list for them. They sell well when they are out in the stores unfortunately we don’t have many places handling them yet. We will have to work on that, or the publisher seems to have no intent in getting the books out in the book stores.
Update 11/7/24 - Books in Dodgeville store “Roots & Branches” as well as McNeill Appliance. Books are also in Mineral Point at the “Aspen Ridge Home and Garden Center. There will also be a book signing there on November 16th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Helmuth Krause
Week of 10/20/24
It’s been another busy week. We have been harvesting corn for my son Ted this week. I start in the morning and work until Tayden, Teds son, gets home from school. Then Tayden takes over and they work till well after dark. On Thursday night they finished the harvest. While it was a fair crop overall, it wasn’t as good as expected with this summers ample rain. In places where the water would stand the crop was very poor. On the well drained ground the crop was very good but it couldn’t quite make up for the wet ground as Ted has a lot of level land with low spots.
On Friday I went to the chiropractor as both my back and right shoulder had been giving me quite a bit of pain. There was a knot the size of a golf ball on the back of my shoulder. The chiropractor spent about half an hour working that down. It feels a lot better now.
We are done with our Saturday farmers market so I finished filling the wood shed at my home. About 4 full cords as we use mostly wood to heat the house in the winter months. Ruth went to the orchard up at Gays Mills and got a few bushel of pie apples that she will slice up and freeze for next summers farmers market.
With the cool frosty nights the critters are getting a lot more active. I seen a number of buck deer on the move during the day time this past week. The squirrels are working overtime gathering nuts. I had a huge gathering of vultures circling overhead the other day getting ready to go south. But where have all the redwing blackbirds gone? Just a few years ago I would see floods of hundreds of thousands covering a whole hillside so all that you would see is black, like a blanket had been thrown over the field. This year all I see is a few hundred at a time siting on the telephone wires. Maybe they are in a different area this year.
The book is selling weel and we are out again, and we are now waiting for the next shipment.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 10/13/24
This week started out on the cold side with a high of 50 on Monday and a low of 36. On Tuesday the high was 47 and the low was 29. Then on Wednesday the low got down to 22, a really hard freeze. On last Sunday I had picked all the tomatoes that showed any color and got four 5-gallon buckets full. My wife and two daughters will can a lot of them as I don’t have a market for most of them. I also picked two 5-gallon buckets of cucumbers. They got soft by Saturday market, so they went to a lady that makes a lot of pickles. Monday evening, I picked the last of the peppers and got three 5-gallon buckets. Most of them will also be preserved as I only sold about a quarter of them at the Saturday Market.
This last Saturday was out last farmers market for this year. We did really great that day. Ruth had made 46 pies and she sold all but 2. I also sold 4 books, which was one more than I had taken there so I will have to deliver that one. Overall the year has been very good.
Ted has started to pick corn this week. As usual I help with the harvest, it is something that I really like to do, and with the weather being just perfect, with cool nights and warm sunny days makes being out in the fields even more enjoyable. With this perfect harvesting weather, the harvest will be about done by the end of this week. The corn yield is all over the place, the monitor in the combine is reading lows of 50 bushels per acre on the low wet spots where the water sat at times this summer. On the better fields with good drainage it is reading as high as 275 bushels per acre. Overall it is averaging about 200 bushels per acre, which is about the average for this farm.
After the harvest is over there will be some stalks to bale and some fall tillage to get done. It might all be done by the first of November, which is very early for this area. I don’t know if many cover crops are being planted as the topsoil is bone dry. We will need some rains for anything to germinate.
Out in the woods the walnut trees are now bare of all leaves and nuts. Many of the maples have also lost many of their leaves. The hunters will have much better vision of the game this season. The bucks are leaving many rubs and marking their territory with scrapes.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 10/6/24
This week Monday morning out growing season came to its end as the temperature dropped to 30. I covered the tomatoes and peppers Sunday, as that was about all that was still left in the garden. Of the cucumbers, I picked all that had any size and left the rest freeze. There is still no rain so to keep the ginseng bed moist, so instead I filled the sprayer tank with water and used a hose to water them down.
The rest of the day I picked up walnuts that I will use for both cracking this winter and planting. I now have about 10 bushels of them. I am now putting wood in the woodshed by the house that we use to heat out house in the winter. There is nothing like coming in the house after chores on a cold winter day and putting your hands up against the wood stove.
Thursday, a warm sunny day like so many this fall, I worked in the woods cutting poke weed off below the soil line with a spade shovel. The poke weed takes over ta open spot in the woods, choking out the good vegetation and tree saplings. To kill it you cut the root off under the ground.
Thursday night we went to our daughter Tina’s 54th birthday party. I probably had one too many, so my wife Ruth drove us home.
Friday as usual I did the harvesting for the Saturday market, not so much to do so I was done by noon. Ruth had her baking done so in the afternoon we went to Muscoda to take care of some business. On the way we met one of them shit hauling trucks from a local big dairy. He didn’t have it closed up right or something as he totally sprayed our car with the stinking crap. We then went straight to the car wash when we got to Muscoda, but the car wash was broke down. The man working said it would take about an hour, so we did our business and then went back. The man through he had it fixed but it still wouldn’t work. The man then told us to go in the self-wash bay and that he would hand wash the car for us, so we did, and he did a really good job. When I went to pay him he refused to take my money. What a good and smart man, and I will now always have my car washed there and pass on the word.
On Saturday as usual we had a very good day. We also had a wonderful experience when the renowned author of poems Daniel Smith came to the market. He told us that he had read my book, The Heart Remembers, and he congratulated me and presented us with a signed hard cover copy of his book called, Ancestral. I never thought of myself as a reader of poetry, but after starting to read his book I really like it. It tells the stories of farmers and the hardships but also the rewards that farm life offers. In his poetry his love for the land clearly shows. He lives here in southwest Wisconsin, and works as a counselor to farm family’s in crisis. His website is www.danielgerardsmith.com.
My book, The Heart Remembers: Recollections of a Ninety-Year-Old Man, is really starting to take off, of the 50 copies we got a month ago only 6 of them are left, and we will order 50 more on Friday. The Dodgeville Public Library also carries the book now.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 9/29/24
With the weather cooling down this week I did some work in the maple woods. Some taps had broken off and there were a lot of broken limbs down on the sap lines. It took me a couple of days with the chain saw to get that stuff all cleared off the lines, before the weather gets bad. We have to be ready to go next spring when we tap the trees.
I got another job done I have been wanting to get done for years. That was when Ted had built a new fence, and he had straightened it out, as the old fence had fallen on the line of the contour strips. so there was about 1/10 of an area that was a big pile of dirt with an old 3 bottom plow buried in it. I was always planning on leveling it out with the little John Deere bulldozer. However, it never is around when I get the time. So, I put the manure fork on the skid steer, which worked really well to dig into the hill of dirt and level it out. I was surprised about how mellow and loose the dirt was.
After getting that job done, I went about watering the new ginseng beds. I had planted these a few weeks ago but it hasn’t rained since then and the top soil is getting very dry. If ginseng seed dries out it dies. With this sunny and dry weather everything is really finishing off in a hurry. The soybeans are about all harvested in this area, with an average yield. The corn is drying down fast with some of the farmers down in the sand harvesting it and it is dry enough they can put it right in the bin without drying it first. That will save them some money with these low corn prices. Also, the price of corn has raised about 50 cents from a month ago, another big help.
The maple trees are putting on color now, but not very much to no bright red or orange leaves, but rather dull yellow and orange. Some of the walnut have already lost their leaves and nuts. I have picked up a dozen 5 gallon buckets of them and Ruth has also picked up a half dozen buckets full. I will use the nuts to both plant and to crack this winter on the cold and snowy days.
The book continues to sell well, and I will need to order another 50 to the order we got 2 weeks ago, as they are all gone but six.
- Helmuth Krause
Week of 9/22/24
Its been another very busy week. I have finished planting the ginseng seed. I then went to hauling off some of the manure, and when I got that done I got a load of gravel and repaired the driveway where the heavy rains earlier this year had washed away a lot of the gravel down the creek that runs through our driveway. I also got a load of gravel fines to to spread in the cow yard after I got the manure hauled from the cow yard. This all beside haresting the garden as needed. The tomatoes, beans, beats, and cucumbers are still producing well. The nice rain that we got last week has really helped, even the grass has greened up again. Ruth cut the lawn after about 3 weeks of not having to.
I then turned the cows into a new pasture, where I also supplement with hay to stretch out the grass. What a pleasent stretch of weather we have had to get the work all done. Sunshine almost every day for the last month with the high around 80 and lows in the middle to high 40s. The farmers are really getting the beans harvested which I think is getiing close to done.
At the farmers market we are doing very well. We about sell out every saturday. This saturday after market we went to the Highland home-coming as the class of 1964 was being honored on their 60th class reunion, which was Ruth’s class. They all met at one of the class members homes for a little get together.
The book “The Heart Remembers” is selling well. All though it appears it is being banned in some areas. All the morris newspapers received a copy of the book 6 months ago. Only one of the editions of the Muscoda Progressive aknowledged that a local author had wrote a new book, and Wendell Smith, the author, was a independent, not on Morris Newspapers payroll.
In some cases it is being with-held from the public for whatever reason, maybe for its content or maybe because of who wrote it. It appears the book is being banned by some.
The book is now available at the Spring Green Library.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 9/15/24
Didn’t get nothing wrote last week, as it was very busy. I got some ginseng seed from up north the Wausau area on Sept. 12, and then started to plant it. But first I had to water the ground as it has been very dry here for the last month. And if ginseng seed dries out it will die. I now have about 2/3 of it planted. Then on the 19th of Sept. we got a nice 0.8 in. of rain so I will no longer need to water the ground first. Now as I write this on Sept. 22nd we got another 1 inch of rain last night. So now maybe the grass will green back up and start growing again, as the pastures were drying up and turning brown. I started to put hay out for the cows on Sept. 17th.
Got a nice order for some ginseng root from a Chinese doctor on Sept. 15th, so I have been digging some ginseng root for him. Fall is really coming on fast as on many of the soybean fields the leaves have fallen off and some farmers are starting to harvest the beans. Chopping corn for silage is coming to an end as the plants are fast becoming too dry. Harvesting for dry corn should start this month yet in September. Quite early for this area.
Out in the woods where there are hickory tress the ground is getting covered with nuts as they are coming down fast and there is a big crop of them. The walnuts started to drop there nuts after the wind and rain on Sept. 19th. These have been a so-so crop this year. As for this oaks very few nuts in this area.
At the Spring Green farmers market we continue to do very well I am always amazed at how many pies we sell at that little market in a village of just over 1000 people. We just got our last order of 50 books a week ago and we sold 31 of them already. Ace Hardware of Muscoda will put books in their stores in Richland Center and La Crosse so that will be 2 more outlets. The books sell when they are displayed, that’s why I don’t understand why the publisher doesn’t get the books out in bookstores like they promised. There cut on each book is over 10 dollars while ours is just over 2 dollars. Why should we have to do all of the promoting? We have sold over 200 books while supposedly they have only sold 3. Maybe it just takes a while for the word to get around how good the book is. It is till maintaining its 5-star ratiing.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 9/1/24
Its been another busy week besides my regular garden work I was out in the woods a lot trying to get rid of all the trashy vegetation like the honey suckle bush and the rose bushes. Then when you wipe them out the poke weed will take over. That weed will grow ten feet tall in a single year and have a thousand purple berries. I try to get all that stuff wiped out so the maple and walnut trees can get started, a checkerboard woods, white wood with the maple and dark wood from the black walnut.
I was also working on getting some ground out in the woods ready to plant ginseng seed this fall. I will need to wait for some rain for that as the ground is getting really dry, and if the ginseng seeds dry out they will die. The leaves on the ginseng plant are now turning to a golden color, and with the red berries on top, a very pretty sight. Perhaps the only thing that would be more pleasing to the eyes would be a lovely woman.
There is another really nasty weed coming into our pastures and hay fields, the Carolina horse nettle, a type of nightshade. They spread by both the seeds and deep horizontal roots. We have not yet figured out how to get rid of it yet. Repeated cutting doesn’t seem to do the trick. Nor do the regular sprays like 2.4.D. It will probably take a special spray.
I finally got the books this week that we ordered 5 weeks earlier and we got 9 sold right away. Which is why I don’t understand how the publishing company can’t seem to get any sold when it is so easy for me to do myself. We have sold over 200 books at a small farmers market and a town of 800 people. Meanwhile the 6-month royalty check that we got this week was $28.80 for books sold online. I don’t believe that they have any books out in the bookstores.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 8/25/24
Its been another busy week, both Monday and Tuesday were very hot and on Tuesday it was also very humid with the temperature being in the mid 90s and the heat index around 110. I didn’t do any more than I had to those days. I just picked the tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans that needed to get done.
While I was up in the woods this week, I noticed that all the leaves on the young maple sapling had turned brown and dried up from the recent hot and dry weather. After the wet spring and earlier wet summer, I hope it does not kill any of them, I hope it just puts them in an early dormancy.
I started to prepare some ground up in the woods to plant some ginseng seed this fall. I called up to Marathon Seed where I have gotten my seed before, and they are no longer in the ginseng business as the man who ran that part passed away last winter. So, they decided to drop that part of their ag supplier business. Dale will be missed I really enjoyed working with him over the years; he was one of the good ones. So, I will need to find a new supplier of seed if I want to continue growing seed as I get none off my plants as the turkeys beat me to the seed before it gets ripe.
The leaves on the chestnut tree are now turning red, and the elder berries are also turning. Anybody for elder berry wine?
We did well at the farmers market this Saturday. We did bring a few pies back home, but no complaints from me as I will know what to do with them.
Have been getting great reviews on the book, unfortunately we did not have any to sell this week as we were out, got a order in and it should be here next Saturday.
Meanwhile they can be ordered at www.dorrancebookstore.com
See you next week!
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 8/18/24
Another Summer week has slipped by, and what a contrast in weather; from a low of 49 degrees on Wednesday to a high of 92 this coming Sunday. It’s been a busy week with the harvesting of the garden. I dug the last of the potatoes on Wednesday. Every other day I pick the beans and cucumbers. Twice a week I pick the tomatoes plus the other veggies for the Saturday market in Spring Green.
This last Saturday we had a fabulous day at the market. We sold out of everything in the bakery and produce department. The Asian Beetles are back in droves, a bit later that usual. I had thought we might not have so many as we had hardly any potato bugs. But we had no such luck, and the beetles will eat the leaves off of the plum trees and the raspberry bushes in a few days.
I learned something new this week, never get too old for that. As I was coming out of the woods, destroying the poke week that’s moving in the woods, I saw four tom turkey, with two of them fighting and the other two watching. I drive within ten feet of them, before they broke the fight off and ran. I always thought the toms only fought in the spring during the mating season, where normally you can’t get within a couple hundred yards.
Before the turkeys take off they were out in the field eating the berries from the nightshade plant, which are poisonous. I began to wonder if that would have something to do with their behavior, does anyone know?
Meanwhile the book The Heart Remembers is selling well and you can order it at www.dorrancebookstore.com.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 8/11/24
Another summer week has skipped by, and fall is fast approaching. The signs are all around. Yellow is the color of fall and the golden red bursting out in full bloom. The leaves of some of the early trees won’t be far behind, such as the walnut trees. The nuts on the trees are now becoming quite visible. There is a fair crop on the hickories, a small crop on the red oaks, and on the white oaks I do not know. On the few other trees that are left on my farm I haven’t seen any. Soon there will be no white oaks left, as there has been no regeneration in maybe the last 50 years.
With the huge population of both turkey and deer, the few nuts that aren’t eaten and left to germinate the saplings are soon eaten off by the deer. I have planted a couple hundred about ten years ago and not a single one of them survived the deer. It would take tree guards at least 6 ft tall at about 10 dollars each to protect them, which is just not feasible. The walnut crop is light, as maybe only five percent of the trees have nuts, and these trees are not really loaded.
Out in the woods the few wild Ginseng Berries that are still left on the plant are turning red, as the turkeys also like them. It is hard to get new patches of Ginseng started, as the turkeys and the other critters will find them and eat the seeds. There appears to be a good crop of turkey. I saw two hens the other day, each of them had about a dozen poults following them.
I spent most of this week in the garden harvesting. Picked the last of the aronias and the blackberries. I’ve picked over a hundred quarts of wild blueberries this summer, which is a huge crop. Likewise, the potatoes, where I have about 20 bushels dug now and maybe about 10 more to go off a patch of about 600 sq ft. The tomato crop is just starting and that also looks to be big.
We did well at the farmers market in Spring Green on Saturday. Again Ruth sold out of all her pies, of which there were 30. We ran out of books and we are hoping to get the next batched shipped soon. Meanwhile the books can be ordered from Dorrance’s Bookstore online.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 8/4/2024
What a difference a week can make. From 90 degrees on July 31 and humidity in the mid-70’s to a high of 66 and humidity of 50 on August 9th. I have finished picking the aronia berries (chokeberries) this week but there is no market for them. Does anyone know of any? We have mixed them with grapes to make a very healthy juice.
I have also finished with the blackberries, which was a very good crop. We have no problem getting rid of them either. They are the first thing to sell out at the farmers market, and Ruth freezes them for later use in her pies. I have picked over a hundred quarts out of my wild patch this year.
We had a good day at the August 10th Saturday market in Spring Green Wisconsin. We sold 38 of Ruth’s pies. The veggies and maple syrup sold well too. We really enjoy that town and its market, as the people are always so friendly.
I have started to dig the potatoes which has also been a very good crop, in spite of getting a late Bridget. With the cooler weather the tomatoes and peppers are slow to getting ripe.
The book is selling well also, I have recently ordered another batch. If anybody is in the Spring Green, Wisconsin area on a Saturday morning I am selling signed copies of my book at the farmer’s market. The book continues to have 5-star ratings.
-Helmuth Krause
Week of 7/28/24
What a busy time this hot summer week has been, besides the usual harvesting in the garden, the blackberries are ripe, and the crop is huge! I picked 80 quarts of the wild blackberries this week, and I have noticed that the thorns seem extra long this year. Most of these berries will go into the freezer that Ruth will use for pies that she bakes for the Spring Green Farmers Market.
On Friday we had a military funeral in the 90-degree heat. I am on the firing squad for the Highland Post #9440, and it was very hot in that blazing sun. None of the younger veterans show up for the military funerals. It is mostly those from the Vietnam War who are now in the 70s. At 91, having served in the Korean War, I am the oldest one still alive.
Saturday was my granddaughter Kylie’s big wedding day. At four in the afternoon the marriage took place at the Moneypenny’s farm. The meal and dancing followed that evening in the huge machine shed that seated 480 people that night. There was also a mechanical bull riding contest that night. Somehow this 91 year old grandfather was talked into riding it. To everyone’s surprise after a 30 second ride I was still on. I had beat the bull, one of the few.
Week of 7/21/24
This week has been a very busy week with the blackberries ripening beside my regular chores and garden work. I started to pick berries on Monday and got four 5-quart buckets, picked two more on Tuesday, four more on Friday, and finally two more on both Saturday and sunday. Most of these berries will go into the freezer and later be made into pies by my wife Ruth for the market in Spring Green, Wisconsin, which has been a great market for us. While it is a small market, we will average about 30 pies sold each Saturday. My book is also doing well there, as well as a few local stores. The most satisfying part is that my book has been receiving 5 star reviews from people that have read it. I also enjoy hearing from those who contact me and comment on how much they enjoy the book.
I have also been getting many phone calls from those who wish to further promote my book, however they all want big money. An example is a call about getting a “top review" from the New York Times for $1,000, or a “great review” from some big shot book critic. Another offer was that they would get me onto the “Best Seller List,” and for that I would pay 4 dollars per book to print and it would be distributed to 2,000 book stores, plus much more. However, I turned them all down. I decided that I will let the good people who read my book pass by word of mouth and over the internet how good of a read it is.
The book can be ordered at Dorrance Publishing Co. Book Stores order department 585 Alpha Drive #103, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. You can also call at 1-800-788-7654. Or visit their website at www.dorracebookstore.com.