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title: Bigger Yields! Follow Green Manure Crops
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bigger-yields-green-manure-crops-1944/
description: Colour poster of a smiling cartoon farmer in overalls, pipe in mouth, hat in hand, holding the husk of an oversized ear of corn.
section: Collection
---

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# Bigger Yields! Follow Green Manure Crops

Colour poster of a smiling cartoon farmer in overalls, pipe in mouth, hat in hand, holding the husk of an oversized ear of corn, under 'Bigger Yields!' and 'Follow green manure crops'. Plain-folks: a friendly, ordinary farmer figure is the messenger for a farming practice.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Bigger Yields!
FOLLOW
GREEN MANURE CROPS
[signature: H. E. Chapman]
[imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-594699]
```

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