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cannery at Temple, where there were 5,000 war gardens, 

 took care of one ton of black-eyed peas. The cannery 

 at Beaumont had a capacity of 500 cans daily. 



Thus, in hundreds of community canneries the 

 country over, thousands of women were saving the 

 excess food upon which the fate of democracy rested, 

 and practicing, as they canned, democracy itself. 



