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  <dc:title>Article for the press on horse chestnut collection</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Final article prepared for the press -- informs the public that the Minister of Munitions and the Food Controller have requested the assistance of the Board of Education in carrying out a scheme to collect horse chestnuts -- that the chestnuts will replace grains currently used in 'industrial processes necessary to the prosecution of the war' and indirectly increase food supply -- that schools form small committees to oversee collection by children -- that the nuts be collected only when ripe, transported by basket and gathered in local heaps.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[August 1917]</dc:date>
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