4-H celebrates: 1920s
Iowa 4-H boys select their own projects; some decide to do a beef project each year.
1929. (left) Emma Guecke shows Barney, First Hereford Steer in class 2-H, at the Junior Feeding Contest, Chicago, Illinois.
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(Left) Buchanan County 4-H’ers watch a canning demonstration team show improved health practices through safer food preservation.
(Right) In 1923 the Iowa and Colorado canning teams won trips to Europe. In the group are Josephine Arnquist, Iowa girls' leader, and Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace.
Music becomes a 4-H project. In 1920, Edith Barker makes singing and music appreciation a project for 4-H girls in Scott County, perhaps the first music work in the nation for 4-H members. With the help of Fannie R. Buchanan the program spreads across the state. Two songs written by Miss Buchanan in partnership with Rena Parrish, The songs "Plowing” and “Dreaming” become 4-H classics. In 1929 the Iowa State College Chamber Singers record the album, “Songs of the 4-H Clover,” based on the first national 4-H songbook.
Upper left, boys' choir; lower left, girls' orchestra; right, "Dreaming."
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