Dy) Miscellaneous Circular 21, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 
with the school superintendent in order to obtain his approval of 
the plan, as well as his active cooperation in interesting the teachers. 
The cooperation of the art supervisor is essential, and, if possible, 
this supervisor should be chairman of the poster committee. It is 
well to request the superintendent of schools to send to each teacher 
a letter of information, accompanied by poster suggestions and con- 
test rules. The teachers’ institute furnishes a good opportunity for 
presenting the plan of the 
milk campaign to all the 
teachers of a county. 
_ It is desired, wherever pos- 
sible, to have all school chil- 
dren from the first grade up 
enter the milk-poster contest. 
Competition, however, should 
be between children having 
similar attainments; that is, 
all the eighth grades in the 
county might compete with 
each other, the seventh grades 
with other seventh grades, and 
FipG od so on. Some unusual condi- 
tions have been found where it 
has been deemed advisable to have children of certain schools compete 
with others within their own groups rather than on a city or county- 
wide basis. An illustration of this is the foreign section of a city, 
where the children are devoting their energies not only to the regular 
curriculum but also to learning a language and unfamiliar customs. 
It would be obviously unfair to have them compete with those who 
already know the language and customs and have only the regular 
educational program to con- 
sider. : 
In each contest the size | : . 
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have found that paper 14 
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by 22 inches or 22 by 28 
inches is most satisfactory, 
although smaller sizes are 
frequently used to good 
advantage. The medium 
should be specified; that is, 
whether the posters are to 
be made with paint, crayon, Fic. 2 
charcoal, or pencil. The 
lower grades are frequently allowed to use cut-outs—pictures, draw- 
ings, or designs cut from magazines, newspapers, or other posters. 
They also use free-hand paper cutting. The upper grades and high 
school as a rule make their posters free-hand, using paper cutting, 
charcoal, pencil, crayons, water colors, ink, or other suitable material. 
The time for completion of the work and the place for assembling 
the posters should be definitely stated. The teachers usually select 
at least three of the best posters from each grade in a school and 
submit them to the committee. ee 
