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title: I'm depending on you for high grade cotton
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/depending-on-you-high-grade-cotton-1943/
description: 'Agriculture Department farm-production poster: a helmeted infantryman with a rifle points straight at the viewer from a red field.'
section: Collection
---

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[![I'm depending on you for high grade cotton, 1943 US poster: Agriculture Department farm-production poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/depending-on-you-high-grade-cotton-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/depending-on-you-high-grade-cotton-1943.jpg)

# I'm depending on you for high grade cotton

Agriculture Department farm-production poster: a helmeted infantryman with a rifle points straight at the viewer from a red field, beside four numbered picking rules and the line 'Fighting equipment demands high grade cotton'. The soldier's authority is borrowed for a crop-handling instruction aimed at cotton growers (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
I'm depending on YOU for HIGH GRADE COTTON...
1 PICK ONLY WHEN DRY
2 KEEP TRASH OUT
3 PICK BEFORE WEATHER DAMAGE
4 DON'T MIX GOOD COTTON WITH BAD
FIGHTING EQUIPMENT DEMANDS
HIGH GRADE COTTON
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943 - O - 542863
[imprint:] U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

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