i;o THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 



of the most helpful features of the newspapers was the 

 coupon box which hundreds of them ran during the en- 

 tire garden and canning 

 season, in which the read- 

 ers were informed that by 

 filling out the coupons 

 and mailing them to the 

 Commission they would 

 receive free copies of the 

 war vegetable gardening 

 or the canning and drying 

 books. Hundreds of thousands of newspaper readers 

 took advantage of this opportunity and were sent 

 copies of the instruction 

 books. 



In addition to print- 

 ing the short garden 

 and canning lessons and 

 numerous items of news 

 value, the papers pub- 

 lished Sunday feature 

 stories. The Commission 

 furnished pictures and data for these articles, with photo- 

 graphs showing types of gardens 

 and how the war gardeners were 

 getting to work in various parts of 

 the country. Soon after the Com- 

 mission was organized it began to 

 receive requests from feature and 

 magazine writers and editors 



