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ment and all recruits must come through voluntary 

 enlistment. Then it was necessary to point out the 

 importance of the work and to create enthusiasm for 

 gardening. Next, it was necessary to train the recruits. 

 Intelligent instruction had to be furnished, for many of 

 these new soldiers of the soil had never before handled 

 a hoe or a garden fork. As the campaign progressed 

 it was found that the best results could be obtained by 

 organizing communities. Hence it became necessary to 

 outline methods for community organization. So unex- 

 pectedly great was the response to the campaign that it 

 proved essential to turn attention to the matter of food 

 conservation, to the preservation of surplus products 

 which the garden campaign had brought into being. The 

 function of the Commission, therefore, was to awaken 

 interest in both food production and food conservation 

 and to provide instruction along each line of endeavor. 



