Hummingbird Visits Flowerbed Inspires Colorful Memory
A frequent visitor, a Ruby th roated hummingbird, feeds at a sunlit flowerbed near a house each early summer. The small bird, three inches long with an iridescent back, darts between tubular blooms while wings beat up to 200 times per second during courtship flight. The piece notes its return in May and migration southward in September, then shifts to a Bicentennial wreath idea using state materials for Christmas 1976 and several reader recipes from Missouri Countryside including Tomato Soup and Green Tomato Mincemeat.
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Old Kentucky Grape Juice and Winter Produce Tips
A Kentucky wife shares an old method for grape juice using one cup grapes one cup sugar and boiling water per quart in sterilized jars. The piece also offers emergency uses for empty bleach jugs and several canning recipes for pears apples and peaches plus a sauerkraut in the jar method and elderberry syrup. It closes with questions from readers and a San Francisco AP brief on George Gamble’s wildlife conviction and penalties.
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Harold Parker
Missouri Countryside
San Francisco
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
George Gamble
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