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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1078 (NAID 514605).
Text on the object
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
