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title: Conservation farming increases yields per acre
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/conservation-farming-corn-hay-tomatoes-1943/
description: 'Agriculture Department chart poster: three red panels convert added crop yields into military rations, 12 bushels of corn into 470 pork ration tins.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Conservation farming increases yields per acre, 1943 US poster: Agriculture Department chart poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/conservation-farming-corn-hay-tomatoes-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/conservation-farming-corn-hay-tomatoes-1943.jpg)

# Conservation farming increases yields per acre

Agriculture Department chart poster: three red panels convert added crop yields into military rations, 12 bushels of corn into 470 pork ration tins, three-quarters of a ton of hay into butter for one soldier for 936 days, and 4 tons of tomatoes into rations for 250 soldiers for 128 days. Selected figures are given with no stated basis (card-stacking), and the soldiers' food is linked to the farmer's acreage.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CONSERVATION FARMING
INCREASES YIELDS PER ACRE..
ENOUGH TO PROVIDE
ADDED CORN to produce PORK to fill 470 RATION TINS for U.S. Soldiers
12 Bushels
PORK
ADDED HAY* to produce MILK to make BUTTER
3/4 Ton
for 1 Soldier for 936 days
ADDED TOMATOES = TOMATO RATIONS
4 Tons
Tomato
for 250 Soldiers 128 days
*Amount of hay usually fed milk cows along with other feeds
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE YOUR SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE OR AAA REPRESENTATIVE, COUNTY AGENT OR SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISORS
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
WAR BOARDS
GET More PER ACRE
[imprint:] ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—548046
```

[← 越接近勝利 越要堅苦奮鬥 (The Closer to Victory, the Harder We Must Struggle), Military Affairs Commission poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/closer-to-victory-struggle-harder-military-affairs-commission-poster-1940s/) [Conservation farming. Get more per acre →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/conservation-farming-cotton-wheat-corn-peanuts-1943/)

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