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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.