UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 128 , 
Contribution from the States Relations Service 
A. C. TRUE, Director 
Washington, D. C. Vv March 22, 1916 
EXTENSION COURSE IN VEGETABLE FOODS. 
FOR SELF-INSTRUCTED CLASSES IN MOVABLE SCHOOLS OF 
AGRICULTURE. 
By ANNA BARROWS, 
Director, School of Domestic Science, Chautauqua. N. Y., and Instructor, School 
of Household Arts, Columbia University. 
CONTENTS. 
Page Page 
Lesson I. Classification of plants..........-.. 2 | Lesson XI. Summary of cookery..........-. 54 
II. Leaves and stalks............--.- 9 XII. Drying, evaporating, and salting 
TIT. Leaves and stalks, continued...... 14 veretableste-0--.asces see neeee 59 
RVs Ul bs ess wee Bees eee eso eae ote 20 XIII. Preserving and canning vege- 
V. Tubers and roots.......----------- 24 tables! sesasas Sicecon meme 63 
Wie Succulentirootseeetece eo eee 30 XIV. Pickling vegetables:.-------2-2- 68 
VII. Flowers and fruits....-...-.....-- 34 XV. Vegetables for the table—Market- 
WATTS SC Od Six ere a: esr  Ser tick cise ce resins 41 ING esse aaa ee ee re aenisicete 71 
1D. Gia DID eae ars Geet Antec ea AS MBROICFONCCS. 2 ecco scach es eens «ese sone 77 
xX. Condimental eran fone) and WIstiOl apparatus s-cece ee ssc ee eee ~celeeieisoets 77 
food accessories.. SOD ONCaBE 50 
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 
Notr.—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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