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Kenneth Flouhpuse and Bill Strawn (team of two), winners of the contest.

1. Dairy Production State Demonstration Contest Winners

Marjorie Given from Webster County, W. Va., demonstrates preparing a clothing dye.

2. 4-H Club Clothing Demonstration

Left: June Helmick, right: Betty Miller.

3. Webster County 4-H Club Dairy Production Demonstration

Boys eating between-meal snack.

4. Monongalia County 4-H Club

5. 4-H Club Canning, Upshur County, W. Va.

A young boy hangs signs after a craft.  The signs read "A 4-H Club Member Lives Here."

6. Monongalia County 4-H Club Boy Hanging Signs

Johnny Parks, winner of the contest, demonstrates his method.

7. 4-H Club Chicken Barbecue Contest Winner, Grant County, W. Va.

8. 4-H Club Farm and Home Management

Tree conservation project displayed by Richard Johnson.

9. 4-H Club Conservation Project

10. 4-H Club Livestock Marketing Program, Greenbrier County, W. Va.

R.J. Friant, Extension agronomist, WVU, discussed the results of the 1955 contest at Vo-ag Room, Clay High School, where second place award was given to Howard Fitzwater.

11. West Virginia Hybrid Corn Yield Contest

Display featuring trees, fruits, and wildflowers found in West Virginia.

12. 4-H Club West Virginia Trees and Fruits Display

13. Monongalia 4-H Club Cottage

14. Taylor County 4-H Camp Cooks

Boys relaxing during "sprawl period."

15. Taylor County 4-H Camp

16. Monongalia County 4-H Club Breakfast

17. Marion County 4-H Club Aluminum Craft

18. Marion County 4-H Club Tribal Games

19. New Arrivals at Wetzel County 4-H Camp

20. 4-H Camp Bonfire

21. W. Va. State Boys 4-H Camp

22. Victory Garden

23. Poultry Processing and Packaging

Three men wearing protective gear spray preventative pesticides from horse drawn pump.

24. Pesticide Spraying in Apple Orchard

Children in front of poultry exhibit, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

25. Poultry Exhibit at Pocahontas County Fair

"Old and Useless made New and Useful," Display features clothing and household items that have been repaired or made from other items.

26. 4-H Club Girls Display

Room with chalk board and desks set up for Woman's Club meetings.

27. Woman's Club Meeting Room, Harpers Ferry District

Woman's Club Meeting Room, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

28. Woman's Club Meeting Room, Harpers Ferry District, W. Va.

Food, floral arrangements and other items on display for the Good Hope community fair.

29. Good Hope Community Fair

Signs read: "For the Common Defense. Six Million Farmers have united to strengthen the nation. We have food and soil reserves unequaled in the world and Double Barreled Defense through the Farm Defense Program."

30. Wetzel County Excellent Farmers Day

Delauder's home before renovations.

31. Home Renovation, Hunter's Fork, W. Va.

Delauder's Home after ronovations. caption reads: "They Sodded bare spots, built walks, planted shrubs, built a fence and enclosed foundation of the house."

32. Home Renovation, Hunter's Fork, W. Va.

Cross' home before renovations.

33. Home Renovation, Hunter's Fork, W. Va.

Cross' home after renovations. Caption reads: "They improved the foundation of their home."

34. Home Renovation, Hunter's Fork, W. Va.

35. West Virginia Farm Women, Rural Electrification School

Three women sitting in a meeting.

36. West Virginia Farm Women

37. 4-H Council Scholarship Recepients

Man loads harvested barley into baling machine.

38. Barley Harvesting, Jefferson County, W. Va.

Men loading sacked barley harvest on truck.

39. Barley Harvesting, Thornton Farm, Jefferson County, W. Va.

Thrasher machine and baling machine in background.

40. Barley Harvesting on Thornton Farm, Jefferson County, W. Va.

41. Barley Harvesting on Thornton Farm, Jefferson County, W. Va.

42. Barley Harvesting, Jefferson County, W. Va.

Sign reads: "Pasture, West Virginia's Main Crop Needs Improvement, For Details See Your County Agent."

43. West Virginia Pasture Display Advocating Use of Crop Treatment

44. Two Men Analyzing Pasture, Gilmer County, W. Va.

Top left: pasture; bottom left: farmhouse; right: farmer holding some of his crop.

45. Collage Featuring Man With Farmhouse and Pasture

Hogs, sheep and cows graze in pasture.

46. Livestock Farm, Pocahontas County, W. Va.

"Hanging primed leaves on stick in Mason County. This grower primed about 600 sticks from 1 1/2 acres in 1945."

47. Tobacco Farm, Mason County, W. Va.

Several tobacco farmers displaying the success of root-rot resistant tobacco plants. Men are standing in front of root-rot resistance variety plants, with smaller, recently transplanted tobacco plants in foreground.

48. Tobacco Farm in Mason County, W. Va.

Primed leaves hanging in barn for curing. This grower in Cabell County primed 500 sticks from 1.3 acres of crop.

49. Tobacco Curing, Cabell County, W. Va.

A field of "Kentucky 16" tobacco in Cabell County. This crop was primed and around 500 sticks were taken from crop of 1.3 acres. Average number of leaves on stalk at time of harvest, after priming, was 16 leaves.

50. Tobacco Farm in Cabell County, W. Va.

Curing barn in Cabell County, W. Va.

51. Tobacco Curing, Cabell County, W. Va.

A field of Kentucky 41A tobacco in Mason County, W. Va. This tobacco was primed and permitted to stand in the field until thoroughly ripe even in extreme dry weather.

52. Tobacco Farm in Mason County, W. Va.

Williams family having dinner in their Doddridge County, W. Va. home.

53. Doddridge County Family Dinner

Young woman pictured with display of 4-H Club items, holding flag that reads "Demonstration Girls Club."

54. Rivesville Woman with West Virginia 4-H Club Display

Back row left to right: W.H. Kendrick, Carol Green, Harry Rollyson, Clarence Wooter, Corty Davis, John Cole, Sam Niel, Ike Hormer, Charles Holbert.Front row left to right: Eleanor Biglow, Dorothy Archer, Gertrude Lemetol (?), Pauline Spangler, Kathleen Berthy, Eula Roberts, Virginia Burmer, Mrs. Fannie M. Kercheval.

55. West Virginia 4-H Club, Camp Vail

Girls working on a project, likely at the State 4-H Camp at Jackson's Mill.

56. Girls 4-H Camp, West Virginia

Cunningham, Assistant Home Demonstration agent, instructing a club girl how to pack her exhibit to bring in to the fair without breaking.

57. Miss Ellie Cunningham, 4-H Club, Kanawha County, W. Va.

Shields was the body servant of Colonel James Kerr Edmondson, Company H, 27th Virginia Infantry, "Stonewall Brigade" during the Civil War. Shields, shown here wearing several medals awarded to him by Confederate Veterans Groups, claimed to have also cooked for General Thomas "Stonewall " Jackson.

58. Jefferson Shields, Former Body Servant and Confederate Veteran, Lexington. Va.

Shields was the body servant of Colonel James Kerr Edmondson, Company H, 27th Virginia Infantry, "Stonewall Brigade" during the Civil War. Shields, shown here wearing several medals awarded to him by Confederate Veterans Groups, claimed to have also cooked for General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

59. Jefferson Shields, Former Body Servant and Confederate Veteran, Lexington. Va.

"Century of Progress" buildings were displayed as part of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. West Virginia was represented at the fair.

60. Century of Progress Building

"1st dining room and kitchen down by the creek. Mill at right of building."

61. First 4-H Camp, Jacskon's Mill, W. Va.

A row of tents in a field.

62. First 4-H Camp, Jacskon's Mill, W. Va.

Building at left is the old mill.

63. First 4-H Camp, Jacskon's Mill, W. Va.

64. First 4-H Camp, Jacskon's Mill, W. Va.

Campers gathered under trees.

65. First 4-H Camp, Jacskon's Mill, W. Va.

"First assembly room under the Chestnut Trees."

66. First 4-H Camp, Jacskon's Mill, W. Va.

W. A. Lawson fertilizes potato crop through funnel.

67. Fertilizing Potato Demonstration; Kanawha County, W. Va.

"Raymond Taylor, a Corn Club boy of Clay County selecting seed corn. He is here removing the tassels from poor stalk."

68. Corn Club Boy, Clay County, W. Va.

69. Wheat Harvesting, Kanawha County, W. Va.

Two women show the others a scheme for removing jars from a canning boiler.

70. "Colored Church" in Mingo County, W. Va.

African American Women and children leaving the demonstration, books in hand.

71. 4-H Club Demonstration, Cinderella, W. Va.

72. Boys and Girls Club, Kanawha County, W. Va.

"The first camp ever held in West Virginia. J. U. Shipman- County agent."

73. 4-H Club Camp, Randolph County, W. Va.

Back of photo reads: "Bus Garage at Henlawson, Logan County, in which the superintendent of the mine set up a gas stove so that I might demonstrate there."

74. Bus Garage, Henlawson, Logan County W. Va.

Members perch on a horse-drawn wagon

75. Boys and Girls Club, Kanawha County, W. Va.

Agricultural Spraying machine mounted on buggy demonstrated for farmers.

76. Spraying Demonstration, Kanawha County W. Va.

W. A. Lawson using horse-drawn plow.

77. W. A. Lawson, Kanawha County W. Va.

"Marshall Grocery agreed to take all strawberries."

78. Strawberry Fields, Kanawha County W. Va.

County Champions holding their winning products.

79. Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs, Pleasants County W. Va.

"A small group of club girls start work in canning."

80. 4-H Club Girls, W. Va.

81. Community Home, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

82. White Sulphur Springs Home, Greenbrier County W. Va.

Boys and girls club recreational activities.  A boy on the left is performing a high jump over a rope.

83. Boys and Girls Club Meeting. Kanawha County, W. Va.

Boys and Girls Club recreational activities.

84. Boys and Girls Club Meeting, Kanawha County, W. Va.

Drainage stakes set for the draining demonstration.

85. C. C. Dickinson Farm. Kanawha County, W. Va.

Plot measured, planted and cared for by Corn Club Member Raymond Taylor.

86. Corn Club Plot, Clay County, W. Va.

87. Boys and Girls Club Track Meet, Kanawha County, W. Va.

88. Young Child at Inspiration Point

Elijah stands in his plot of corn, who "had one of the best acres of corn in West Virginia in 1916. He was careful at every step."

89. Elijah Clovis, West Virginia Corn Farmer

90. Boys and Girls Club Meeting, Kanawha County, W. Va.

Reverse of photo reads: "The only purebred beef bull in Kanawha County when B. B. Ezell began as county agent."

91. County Agent with Purebred Beef Bull, Kanawha County, W. Va.

Men aboard Baltimore and Ohio Railroad car labeled "West Virginia Soil Improvement Special."

92. The Lime Special

Held from January 1st - 5th, 1923.

93. Annual Farmers' Week at WVU

94. Club Girls at County Show, Morgantown, W. Va.

Located in Borman Church.

95. Church Exhibit, Marshall County, W. Va.

Club members, including women and children, pose for photo in a field.

96. Lend-A-Hand Club