QUESTION: I want to know how I can get copies of presentations that were given at the symposium on Aug. 15, 2002 at the University of Georgia?

ANSWER: We appreciate your interest and support of the Symposium on the Future of American Agriculture. Please mark your calendar for Aug. 14, 2003. All presentations from each of our four Symposiums are available on the Symposium Web site.

- Bob Shulstad
University of Georgia

QUESTION: I know you provide a service in selling "The Georgia County Guide," but are you associated with information about "Georgia County Government Yearbook," which references on Georgia counties?

ANSWER: No, the County Government Yearbook is published by another agency -- Association County Commissioners of Georgia.

- Sue Boatright
Ga. County Guide Coordinator

QUESTION: My son has to do a report on "What is the Georgia Department of Agriculture? We need a summary of this topic. Please help -- looked everywhere!

ANSWER: Go to the Georgia Department of Agriculture web site. You will find considerable information about the department, as well as a link with which to e-mail the commissioner of agriculture (bgriffin@agr.state.ga.us).

- Georgia FACES

QUESTION: Our local paper, the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle in Cheyenne, Wyo., printed an article on home preserving that cited the University of Georgia Extension Service. It referred to candied apple rings, which are cucumber slices sealed in a solution of vinegar, sugar and cinnamon red hots. I would like to have this recipe so I may make it this year while I can still get the canning cucumbers.

ANSWER: While we did not provide the recipe you describe to the writer of the article mentioned, I can provide you a recipe for canned spiced apple rings using red hot candies, but not for cucumber rings with the red hots. I did a Web search for the recipe for you, but I cannot recommend any of the versions I have located due to safety concerns. Here is our "Spiced Apple Rings," from UGA's So Easy to Preserve (4th ed.). You can NOT safely substitute cucumbers for the apples in this recipe, however, at the same amount. View the whole recipe on-line at: Spiced Apple Rings Recipe.

If I can find a cucumber ring recipe with cinnamon candies that I can recommend, I will forward it. You might want to check with your local Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service, usually as a county-based office of the University of Wyoming.

QUESTION: Please tell me the name of a book with names and pictures of wildflowers in Georgia. I have a few I don't know the names of.

ANSWER: The publication, "Wildflowers," by Will Corley, Wayne McLaurin, Jim Midcap and Gary Wade, has a section, "Common Wildflowers in Georgia." It has descriptions, but no pictures.
Click here to get this publication on-line.

"Wildflowers of Georgia," by Hugh and Carol Nourse, has color photos and is available for sale ($29.95) from The University of Georgia Press. Click here to order it on-line.

- Georgia FACES