DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF EDUCATION BULLETIN, 1917, No. 6 EDUCATIVE AND ECONOMIC POSSIBILITIES OF SCHOOL-DIRECTED HOME GARDENING IN RICHMOND LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, February 6, 1917. SIR: In April, 1916, at the request of school authorities in Indiana, I assigned J. L. Randall, one of the Bureau of Education specialists in school and home gardening, to make a careful study of the possibilities of home gardening directed by the public schools in the city of Richmond, Ind. This study was made in cooperation with the Indiana vocational education survey, and special attention was given to the possible economic results as well as to its educative values. I am transmitting the report of this study for publication as a bulletin of the Bureau of Education. Respectfully submitted. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. 4 P. P. CLAXTON, Commissioner. |