130 THE WAR GARDEN VICTORIOUS 
Another interesting example of a community can- 
nery was to be found in Salt Lake City. Recognizing 
the need for food conservation, the city’s women first 
brought about the creation of a community market 
and later established a community canning kitchen 
that was run in connection with that market. The 
work was carried on under the chairmanship of Mrs. 
C. H. McMahon. 
The cannery itself consisted of one of the large market 
stalls, temporarily enclosed for the purpose and equip- 
ped with a complete canning outfit. Mrs. W. F. Adams, 
president of the city’s federated women’s clubs, was 
executive head of the organization. She was on duty 
daily, arriving at the cannery by 7:30 o’clock in the 
morning. Each morning the market-master purchased 
in the market such products as Mrs. Adams desired. 
Sometimes he secured these products direct from the 
neighboring farms. Occasionally fruit or vegetables 
were offered to the cannery free on condition that 
they be picked and taken away. In such cases troops 
of Boy Scouts were utilized to do the harvesting and 
motor-cars, offered for the purpose, were used to bring 
the food to the cannery. In order that there might 
be a constant force of women at work, that the labor 
should not become irksome to any, and that the interest 
be as widespread as possible, Mrs. Adams appointed six 
lieutenants to look after the labor supply. Each lieu- 
tenant was responsible for supplying a given number of 
hands on one day of each week and each lieutenant 
procured a certain number of women to pledge them- 
