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went out to the news- 

 papers in "mat" or 

 matrix form, so that 

 it was necessary for 

 the paper to make 

 only the stereotype 

 from which the print- 

 ing was to be done. 

 The material which 

 the Commission sent 

 out in this way in- 

 cluded reproductions 

 of its several posters, 

 little comics on gar- 

 dening and canning, a 

 step-by-step series of 

 illustrations explaining 

 in detail the cold-pack 

 process of canning 

 vegetables and fruits; initials to be used in dressing 

 up the garden page; and a number of prose poems with 

 small illustrations in- 

 serted. AUthis material 

 was used very widely. 



The news-service 

 organizations and illus- 

 trated-feature syndi- 

 cates used many stories 

 on war-garden work. 

 In this way thousands 



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