UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



H BULLETIN No. 123 



Contribution from the States Relations Service 

 A. C. TRUE, Director 



Washington, D. C. 



March 22, 1916 



EXTENSION COURSE IN VEGETABLE FOODS. 



FOR SELF-INSTRUCTED CLASSES IN MOVABLE SCHOOLS OF 

 AGRICULTURE. 



By Anna Babkows, 



Director, School of Domestic Science, Chautauqua, N. Y., and Instructor, School 

 of Household Arts, Columbia University. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Lesson I. Classification of plants 2 



II. Leaves and stalks 9 



III. Leaves and stalks, continued 14 



IV. Bulbs 20 



V. Tubers and roots 24 



VI. Succulent roots 30 



VII. Flowers and fruits 34 



VIII. Seeds 41 



IX. Fungi 48 



X. Condimental vegetable foods, and 



food accessories 50 



Lesson XI. Summary of cookery 54 



XII. Drying, evaporating, and salting 



vegetables 59 



XIII. Preserving and canning vege- 



tables 63 



XIV. Pickling vegetables 68 



XV. Vegetables for the table— Market- 

 ing 71 



References 77 



List of apparatus 77 



GENERAL SUGGESTIONS TO LEADERS. 



Although the leader of this course does not need any more train- 

 ing than the other members, her special work will be easier if she 

 reads at least a lesson ahead of the class work, or, better still, goes 

 more or less rapidly through the whole bulletin in advance. In this 

 way it will be easier for her to make wise suggestions regarding the 

 materials to be used for the practical work in connection with each 



Note. — This course is a revision of that published as U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Office of Experiment Stations Bulletin 245. In its preparation the author cooperated 

 with J. M. Stedman, Farmers' Institute Specialist, and with the Office of Home Economics, 

 of the States Relations Service. The course is designed to aid agricultural colleges in 

 their extension work. It is intended for the use of small groups of farm women assembled 

 as a class to study the subject in a systematic manner with one of their number as a 

 leader. It is adapted for such use in any part of the United States. The agricultural 

 college is to loan the class the reference library listed in the Appendix and also a set of 

 the apparatus designated therein. The class meets as often as convenient in a suitable 

 room where tables for exercise work are available. The forenoon is devoted to the text 

 and reference work and the afternoon to the exercise work, an entire day being thus con- 

 sumed for each lesson. At the completion of the course and as often as desired the college 

 conducts examinations through the leader and corrects and returns the papers. 

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