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milk dishes were served, to encourage consumers to use milk more freely. 

 Three demonstrations a day in each of four booths were given to teach 

 the making of milk dishes. Squads of school children were served with 

 model suppers of dairy products during one hour each day. The work 

 was done in cooperation with the State Food Commission. 



At the National Food Show held at the Grand Central Palace in New 

 York City from June 14 to June 22, 19 18, a member of the staff gave 

 demonstrations every afternoon and evening on wheatless breads, pastry 

 cakes, and the like. Another member of the staff directed the exhibit 

 of dairy products. This work was done in cooperation with the State 

 Food Commission. It was estimated that 700 persons were reached daily. 



The bake shop of the cafeteria has given the results of much of its 

 experimental work to the United States Food Administration, and it has 

 been used as a laboratory to try out recipes for the Food Administration. 

 Recipes for both large and small quantities have been worked out. The 

 head baker has demonstrated the making of war breads in Syracuse three 

 times at the State Fair where over 3000 small loaves of war bread were 

 baked and distributed, at a hotel where approximately 2500 persons were 

 reached, and again before about 40 institution managers. In Troy he 

 baked and exhibited bread for three days, reaching about 3000 persons. 

 He has demonstrated the making of war breads for bakers in Washington 

 at the request of the Food Administration. Over 5000 small loaves of 

 war bread have been sent out to the home demonstration agents for 

 demonstration purposes. 



A coiirse of twelve lessons was prepared for nurses of New York State 

 to place before them the war food situation, the measures advised and 

 adopted by the United States Food Administration, and some of the most 

 recent printed matter on food and dietetics. The course was prepared 

 originally for the nurses of the New York State Organization for Public 

 Health Nursing, nimibering about 250. Since the lessons were first sent 

 out, however, the list has grown to 13 16. The lessons were followed by 

 a questionnaire to be returned to the Department. 



Cooperating with the New York State Food Supply Commission, 

 special publicity work was inaugurated the middle of July, 191 7, to place 

 before the people of the State, through the press and through every other 

 possible channel of publicity, facts and subject matter bearing upon the 

 emergency food situation. Part of the work of this bureau was a course 

 of lectures in journalism to students of the extension class of the summer 

 school. A similar course of six lectures was given to the extension class 

 during the first term of the regular course. With the discontinuance of 

 the State Food Supply Commission the bureau of publicity was taken 

 over as a part of the extension work of the Department, working in close 

 cooperation with the later New York State Food Commission, 



