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title: Farmers join hands
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/farmers-join-hands-1941/
description: 'Farm Security Administration sheet: photographs of a farmers'' meeting with a speaker, men examining a bull and a farmer repairing a machine.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Farmers join hands, 1941 US poster: Farm Security Administration sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/farmers-join-hands-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/farmers-join-hands-1941.jpg)

# Farmers join hands

Farm Security Administration sheet: photographs of a farmers' meeting with a speaker, men examining a bull and a farmer repairing a machine, plus a fan of cards (Repair Machinery, Neighborhood Meetings, Collect Scrap Metal, Buy Defense Stamps, Meet Food Goals, Save Material), with the Food for Freedom shield. The tell is bandwagon: 'Farmers join hands' presents joining neighbours as the normal course.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
FARMERS JOIN HANDS
FOOD FOR FREEDOM
Save Material
Meet Food Goals
Buy Defense Stamps
Collect Scrap Metal
Neighborhood Meetings
Repair Machinery
Farmers get together to talk over farm problems and make plans.. to start co-ops for joint use of equipment and pure-bred stock.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
```

[← Families can grow the produce for freedom](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/families-can-grow-the-produce-for-freedom-1941/) [Fats Help Make Gunpowder →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fats-help-make-gunpowder-1941/)

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