brought home a disease and it spread through the Anderson’s entire flock and killed them all. Back then, they didn’t have pullorum antigen vaccines to give the chickens, like we have today. He …
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brought home a disease and it spread through the Anderson’s entire flock and killed them all. Back then, they didn’t have pullorum antigen vaccines to give the chickens, like we have today.
He also remembered that one neighbor had a truck and would go around and pick up the animals and bring them to the fairgrounds. If you lived close enough, you would walk your animals to the fairgrounds. There were no buildings to house the animals in or arena barns to show them in. They would exhibit their animals outside. If it was raining, everyone and all creatures got wet.
As I have been looking through some boxes in the Pierce County Extension office storage room, I came across an article from the 1954 Pierce County Fair newspaper. It has a wonderful history of the first 30 years of 4-H members showing at the Pierce County Fair.
“1924 was a banner year for the club members at the county fair as they had the privilege of exhibiting their projects in the new 4-H Club and educational building that was built during the summer.” Evelyn Finstad and Lorraine Leonard were given scholarships to Madison and Reuben Hauschildt received a trip to the state fair that year.
The first summer agent was hired in 1929 to help out Mr. Seyforth with the growing number of members. Over 300 youth made exhibits that year. The next year the enrollment had grown to 590 club members with 32 organized clubs; 1,296 exhibits were made at the fair including: 90 calves, 43 pigs, 46 sheep, 312 articles of sewing, 180 baking items, and 255 in canning.
Regina Yanisch of the “Go To It” 4-H club received a pressure cooker from the National Pressure Cooker Company of Eau Claire for being named the 1930 champion home economics member. Regina canned 1,503 pints of fruit, vegetables and meat, along with baking 533 loaves of bread and 300 other bakings and made 19 articles for sewing.
Editor’s note: If anyone recognizes any of the unidentified people in the photos, let us know at [email protected] or 715-8211497.
Submitted by Beth Ingli Pierce County 4-H 100th Anniversary chairperson
