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title: Lamb feeders! Produce shearlings! Help keep our flyers warm
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lamb-feeders-produce-shearlings-1943/
description: 'Farm-production poster: a flyer in a sheepskin flying suit climbs onto an aircraft wing under the headline ''Lamb Feeders!'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Side text uses the period slur 'Japs' for Japanese forces, printed as on the sheet. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Lamb feeders! Produce shearlings! Help keep our flyers warm

Farm-production poster: a flyer in a sheepskin flying suit climbs onto an aircraft wing under the headline 'Lamb Feeders! Produce Shearlings!' and the banner 'Help keep our flyers warm'. The tell is transfer, with the airman's image attached to a request to farmers, plus a price box. The side text refers to the enemy as 'Japs and Nazis'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
LAMB FEEDERS!
PRODUCE SHEARLINGS!
HELP KEEP OUR FLYERS WARM
Keep our boys warm if you
expect them to make it hot
for the Japs and Nazis.
This flyer is going up to
fight where it's 30 to
60 degrees below zero,
dressed in a flying suit
made of sheepskins.
SHEARLING VALUES
No.1 Pelt-
Wool 1/2 to 1 inch in length
$2.15
No. 2 Pelt-
Wool 1/4 to 1/2 inch in length
$1.90
SHEAR YOUR LAMBS SIX WEEKS BEFORE MARKETING
SEE YOUR COUNTY AGENT OR MARKET AGENCY FOR FURTHER DETAILS
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943 O-481917]
```

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