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António Martins, 27 November 2007, and Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 12 June 2010
The 4-H Clubs are an international association of young people from
agricultural backgrounds. It attempts to encourage such people to stay down on
the farm through teaching sound agricultural practices, programs of
agricultural vocational education (often in conjunction or cooperation with
local schools), and a wide range of social activities. The emblem of the
organization is a green four-leaf clover with a white block letter H on each
leaf.
Ron Lahav, 26 January 2006
The 4H organization is administered in the US by the United States Department
of Agriculture with a national conference center in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Local
chapters are run by the land grant colleges through the agriculture extension
service (known as the Cooperative Extension Service). It originally provided a
means of introducing new agricultural techniques through children (as many
adults tended to avoid new methods). It provides services to boys and girls.
Projects developed by the children are often exhibited at the state and county
fairs. Presently 4-H is in 80 countries worldwide. At
http://www.national4-hheadquarters.gov/emblem/4h_name.htm there is a PDF
document that includes Pantone color recommendations. The four H's stand for
Head, Heart, Hands, Health.
Phil Nelson, 26 January 2006
image by
António Martins, 27 November 2007, and Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 12 June 2010
In a new episode of "The Simpsons" ("Apocalypse Cow," seventeenth episode,
season 19, airing yesterday) Bart joins the 4-H Club. The (animated) 4-H flag is
shown repeatedly, including once in close-up, and is exactly like the one shown
here, only in the "negative'"; i.e. green field, white clover, green "H"'s. An
interesting reversal, one wonders if such a variant might exist in real life.
Eugene Ipavec, 29 April 2008
My wife confirmed that she has seen inverse colors (green letters on a white
clover) and gold letters on the green clover. One curious fact is that the stem
of the clover is supposed to point away from the flagpole, or to the left
otherwise.
Edward Mooney, 29 April 2008
image by
António Martins, 27 November 2007, and Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 12 June 2010
This version shows gold letters on a green clover.
Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 12 June 2010