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title: Is your farming on the level?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/is-your-farming-on-the-level-1942/
description: 'Illustrated poster: a close-up of a bearded farmer in a star-banded hat, thumb raised, beside contour-ploughed hillside fields, a barn and a truck.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Is your farming on the level?, 1942 US poster: Illustrated poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/is-your-farming-on-the-level-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/is-your-farming-on-the-level-1942.jpg)

# Is your farming on the level?

Illustrated poster: a close-up of a bearded farmer in a star-banded hat, thumb raised, beside contour-ploughed hillside fields, a barn and a truck, with a 'Food for Freedom' badge. Headline 'Is your farming ON THE LEVEL?' over 'Contour farming increases yields NOW'. The star hat borrows national symbols, and 'Food for Freedom' is the abstract slogan.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Is your farming
ON THE LEVEL?
Contour farming increases yields NOW
FOOD FOR FREEDOM
WAR BOARDS
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-494393
```

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