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title: Conservation farming. Get more per acre
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/conservation-farming-cotton-wheat-corn-peanuts-1943/
description: 'Agriculture Department chart poster: four red panels convert added crop yields into war goods, 90.6 lbs of cotton into 18 parachute harnesses.'
section: Collection
---

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# Conservation farming. Get more per acre

Agriculture Department chart poster: four red panels convert added crop yields into war goods, 90.6 lbs of cotton into 18 parachute harnesses, 5.4 bushels of wheat into 15 months of bread for a soldier, 7.5 bushels of corn into 300 pork ration tins and 152.2 lbs of peanuts into oil for 140 40-mm shells. Selected figures are given with no stated basis (card-stacking), tying acreage to the soldier's supply.

## 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 COTTON for FABRIC for 18 PARACHUTE HARNESSES
90.6 lbs.
ADDED WHEAT to make FLOUR for BREAD to feed a U.S. Soldier for 15 months*
5.4 bu.
225 lbs.
ADDED CORN to produce PORK to fill 300 RATION TINS for a U.S. Soldier
7.5 bu.
ADDED PEANUTS = OIL** to make 140 40-MM SHELLS
152.2 lbs.
Peanut OIL
43 lbs.
* 8 ounces per day
** If used as cooking oil to release other oils for making gunpowder
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—548077
```

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