THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
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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. 
