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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 
