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and other nationalities were represented in the poly- 

 glot assembly. Few of them spoke much English, and 

 more than seventy per cent, of them spoke no English 

 at all. It was necessary not only to instruct them, but 

 to translate and print bulletins and lesson-sheets in a 

 number of languages. 



A garden expert from the Arizona Agricultural Sta- 

 tion was engaged to take charge of the enterprise. The 

 double-crop system was employed so that as soon as one 

 crop was harvested another was started. If any war 

 gardener was found who did not take proper care of 

 the plot assigned to him, the ground was taken from 

 him and given to another. A market was established 

 to which the growers could carry any of their surplus 

 product and have it sold for them without charge for 

 the service. Nothing was permitted to go to waste, and 

 the food which could not be used at once was canned 

 or dried and stored for future use. On account of the 

 climate most of the conservation was by the drying 

 process. The amount of food grown was large and 

 the saving in this instance was particularly great be- 

 cause of the distance of the mining center from great 

 supply markets. 



Something as to the methods used by other corpora- 

 tions in promoting the war-garden movement among 

 their workers may here be of interest. From Mr. 

 Luther D. Burlingame, industrial superintendent of 

 the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, at Prov- 

 idence, Rhode Island, comes an instructive report. 



This concern opened the war-garden campaign by 



