58 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
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 
