170 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 
don’t stop receive requests from feature and 
shaving iff magazine writers and editors 
