UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 123 



Contribution from the States Relations Service 

 A. C. TRUE, Director 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



March 22, 1916 



EXTENSION COURSE IN VEGETABLE 



FOR SELF-INSTRUCTED CLASSES IN MOVABLE 

 SCHOOLS OF AGRICULTURE 



By 



ANNA BARROWS, Director, School of Domestic Science, 

 Chautauqua, N. Y., and Instructor, School of House- 

 hold Arts, Columbia University 



CONTENTS 



Lesson 



IV 



V 



VI. 



VII, 



vm 



EX 



X, 



I. Classification of Plants . . 2 



II. Leaves and Stalks ,-.'... 9 



II. Leaves and Stalks, continued 14 



. Bulbs 20 



. Tubers and Roots .... 24 



. Succulent Roots .... 30 



. Flowers and Fruits ... 34 



. Seeds ........... 41 



. Fungi 48 



',. Condi menial Vegetable 

 Foods, and Food Acces- 

 sories 50 



Lesson XI. Summary of Cookery ... 54 

 XII. Drying, Evaporating, and 



Salting Vegetables ... 59 



XIII. Preserving and Canning 



Vegetables 63 



XIV. Pickling Vegetables ... 68 

 XV. Vegetables for the Table- 

 Marketing 71 



References 77 



List of Apparatus « . 77 



WASHINGTON 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1916 



