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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, War Boards
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- 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)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, War Boards. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-594 (NAID 514074).
Text on the object
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
