4-H celebrates: 1910-1919
1910. Members of Boys Clubs in 1910 learn rope splicing and knot tying, manual training to apply on the farm.
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1910. Boys Club members attend a Farm Camp in the summer. Here they learn about stock judging.
1911. Gold watches honor many recipients. This one carries the 3-H emblem and an inside inscription, “Presented to Jessie Field by Her Page County Friends, February 4, 1911.
1911. Girls Club members attend Farm Camp and compete in sewing, cooking, canning, and breadmaking. Here Jessie and Page County girls pose outside their tent.
1912. At left, eleven-year-old Lois Edmonds of Page County wins the bread-baking contest in January at Iowa State College using the on-campus laboratory ovens. Lois wins a trip to Washington with her mother and sister. She is presented with a Certificate of Achievement by the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
At right, Lois wears the early 3-H and 4-H uniform for girls.
1915. Iowa 4-H Corn Club boys win a trip to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and Mexico. Paul Taff supervises the group. Taff stands extreme right in the photo taken beside one of their pullman cars in Arizona
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