BULLETIN No. 172 MARCH, 19 17 



MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICILTIRAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



EXPERIMENTS IN KEEPING ASPARAGUS 

 AFTER CUTTING 



By F. W. MORSE 



The object of this experiment was to determine some of the 

 changes which take place in asparagus from the time when it is 

 cut in the field until it is ready to be cooked. It is not usually 

 desirable to hold asparagus more than a few days to prevent 

 market gluts. The usual methods of keeping asparagus at sum- 

 mer temperatures cause rapid deterioration in quality, and should 

 be remedied if a discriminating patronage is desired. 



Requests for bulletins should be addressed to the 



Agricultural Experiment Station, 



Amherst, Mass. 



