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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Unnamed issuer (U.S. Government Printing Office imprint); artist H. E. Chapman
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Unnamed issuer (U.S. Government Printing Office imprint). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-489 (NAID 513970).
Text on the object
Bigger Yields! FOLLOW GREEN MANURE CROPS [signature: H. E. Chapman] [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1944-O-594699]
