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to them. They were docented in the Wild Flower Garden by 
Miss Rusk, and Miss Clarke explained the demonstration victory 
gardens. ‘Their visit concluded with a talk on Victory Gardening, 
illustrated by lantern slides, by Miss Clarke in the auditorium. 
Respectfully submitted, 
ARTHUR HARMOUNT GRAVES, 
Curator of Public Instruction. 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF ELEMENTARY 
INSTRUCTION FOR 1943 
To THE AcTING DriREcTOR: 
The war has caused drastic changes in our Department’s work. 
A. Teachers’ Classes.—Classes have changed entirely. No one 
of our regular classes was dropped. In fact, new classes have 
been added by request of the Board of Education and by indi- 
vidual groups of teachers. The Department has also done its 
part in the Victory Garden program set up for the general public. 
B. Distribution of Material—This year there was renewed 
interest in this phase of our work. Service was extended to over 
4,000 teachers and the materials were used in classes represented 
by 187,000 children. 
C. Children’s Saturday Morning Classes—These remained the 
same in numbers, but during the summer older boys and girls 
left to help on farms and in other phases of war work. This 
threw greater responsibility upon the children, which, in a way 
was no hardship. Their gardens were planned as ‘‘War Gar- 
dens’? and much home canning was done. 
D. Visiting Classes——The spring list of talks offered to the 
schools was short, cut down to cover only subjects relating to the 
war, such as ‘Plants bottle-necked by the war—rubber, fiber, 
and beverage plants,” ‘Victory Gardens,” etc. The classes did 
not come in large groups but in small ones, due to recommenda- 
tions made by the Board of Education. No list of lectures was 
was sent out in the fall because of much seed work to do. Still 
classes came! 
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Seed Work.—The same landslide which general seed houses 
encountered in the spring was ours too. It was quite impossible 
to fill all the orders sent to us from the schools. Our penny 
