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title: Harvest legume & grass seed
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/harvest-legume-and-grass-seed-1944/
description: 'Farm-production poster: a smiling farmer in overalls and straw hat shoulders a full seed sack on a grassy hillside beneath the headline ''Harvest legume &'
section: Collection
---

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[![Harvest legume & grass seed, 1944 US poster: Farm-production poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/harvest-legume-and-grass-seed-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/harvest-legume-and-grass-seed-1944.jpg)

# Harvest legume & grass seed

Farm-production poster: a smiling farmer in overalls and straw hat shoulders a full seed sack on a grassy hillside beneath the headline 'Harvest legume & grass seed'. The slogan 'For your use and the nation's need' joins the farmer's own benefit to the national one (transfer), with an everyday working figure (plain-folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HARVEST
LEGUME
& GRASS
SEED
[signature: BISHOP]
FOR YOUR USE AND THE NATION'S NEED
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-594698]
```

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