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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. 
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