172 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
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. All this 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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