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Title: Public provision for recreation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Haynes, Rowland
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Publisher: Cleveland, Cleveland Foundation Committee
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rdens—GeneralThe estimated value of the crops raised in all gar-dens, tract and home, in 1918 was S92,982. In 1919the mid-season report as of July 15 valued the cropsproduced to date at 830,880. Total enrollments for all school gardens for thetwo years were as follows: 1918 12,885 1919 8,255 The average age of the children enrolled was eleven years, with a range of from seven to sixteen years. In addition 140 adults worked on the tracts. A course in supervision of school gardening wasgiven by )\Ir. Eastman at the Cleveland NormalSchool in 1918-19, which covered the followingtopics: the organization of a city for school garden-ing; the home garden, vacant lot, and large tractsystems; methods of accounting and record-keeping;inspection of gardens; statistics as to investmentand returns. The value of the produce raised in the gardens, asgreat as it was, and the real economic help whichthis produce gave to many families, was but inci-dental to the real work which the gardening accom- 82
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plished, namely, the happy, healthful and usefuloccupation of the childrens spare time. Gettingback to the soil in this way was the salvation of theyoung hoodlum of many a neighborhood whoseonly fault was a great amount of surplus energy thatlacked proper direction; it was the means of salva-tion also for many a child under-endowed withenergy, needing physical development. Now that wargardens are a thing of the past, the work should notbe permitted to fall off. With proper organizationand backing it will not. Gardening needs moye andmore to be recognized as a legitimate and very im-portant part of the work of the public schools. Thereis no more valuable education than this informal edu-cation—play-instruction development, if it may be sostyled. Instruction can be given in the school room;the laboratory work can be held in the out-of-doors,and both should count for as much credit in theschool work as any more formal branch of learning.As play, which is the point of view of the survey

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