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title: How Can You Improve Your Chickens? (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/how-can-you-improve-your-chickens-arabic-beirut-1954/
description: An Arabic poultry-breeding sheet titled 'How can you improve your chickens'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# How Can You Improve Your Chickens? (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)

An Arabic poultry-breeding sheet titled 'How can you improve your chickens'. Drawn hens, roosters, chicks and eggs sit between boxed lines saying that a good cock of a chosen breed put with local hens gives bigger, stronger chicks, more and larger eggs and more meat; a man in overalls points to the rooster and later weighs two birds on a carrying pole. A footer refers readers to the Ministry of Agriculture or the U.S. Point Four mission. The tell is plain-folks: an ordinary farmer figure and farm-yard drawings present the advice as everyday practice.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
كيف يمكنك تحسين دجاجك

ضع ديكًا جيدًا من نوع مختار مع الدّجاج البلدي للحصول على نتيجة أفضل

الحاصل ...
بيضتان وصوصان بنفس الحجم

ولكن ...
عندما ينمو الصوص يصبح دجاجة أكبر وأقوى

تبيض ...
بيضًا أكثر وأكبر

ولهذا يعني
صيصانًا أكبر وأقوى

ولحمًا أكثر

للحصول على معلومات أكثر الرجاء الاتصال بوزارة الزراعة أو ببعثة الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية للأعمال (النقطة الرابعة)

[emblem:] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
How can you improve your chickens

Put a good cock of a selected breed with the local hens to get a better result

The result ...
Two eggs and two chicks of the same size

But ...
When the chick grows it becomes a bigger and stronger hen

It lays ...
more and bigger eggs

And this means
bigger and stronger chicks

And more meat

For more information please contact the Ministry of Agriculture or the Mission of the United States of America for Operations (Point Four)

[emblem:] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
```

Arabic script read from a stylised display typeface; the emblem lettering is in English.

[← World Photo Review (edition B) (English poster distributed in Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/world-photo-review-b-english-1954/) [القمح الأميركي في نجدة الليبيين (American Wheat to the Aid of the Libyans) (Arabic photo-set poster distributed in Benghazi) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/american-wheat-for-the-libyans-arabic-1954/)

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