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centage of the selling-price was charged. To this mar- 

 ket were brought products from the school-gardens, the 

 surplus from back-yard gardens, and the excess from 

 community garden-patches on great estates, where 

 ground had been lent by the owners for the use of per- 

 sons who had no garden space. Vast as was the amount 

 of produce that poured into the market from all these 

 sources, every particle of it was sold; and ordinarily the 

 market was sold out long before the established hour 

 of closing. Thus, at practically no expense, and merely 

 by utilizing facilities at hand, the people of Brookline 

 saved an enormous quantity of food that otherwise 

 would almost surely have gone to waste. 



The women of Roselle, New Jersey, wished to es- 

 tablish a community market, but lacked what would 

 ordinarily be considered adequate facilities, until they 

 secured the use of a vacant lot in the town, and then 

 induced the town council to keep the lot clean. Here, 

 on given days of each week, were brought all the sur- 

 plus products of home gardens and even the excess of 

 neighboring farms which were sold to those who had 

 no gardens or who wished to buy products that they 

 could not raise in their own yards. Thus the excess of the 

 entire neighborhood was brought together and utilized. 



At first glance Roselle, like many another small town, 

 had no place which seemed fitted for a community 

 cannery. It had a schoolhouse, however, and that 

 schoolhouse had a kitchen. Presto! It became a com- 

 munity cannery. At the community market the con- 

 servation committee bought from day to day such 



