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title: Let Your Fruit Trees Save Sugar
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/let-your-fruit-trees-save-sugar-1918/
description: 'A cartoon shows two women as fruit trees: ''Mrs. Patriot''s Fruit Tree'' hands out jars of jam to marching jam-jar figures under a ''U.S. Preserves'' banner.'
section: Collection
---

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# Let Your Fruit Trees Save Sugar

A cartoon shows two women as fruit trees: 'Mrs. Patriot's Fruit Tree' hands out jars of jam to marching jam-jar figures under a 'U.S. Preserves' banner, while 'Mrs. Waster's Fruit Tree' stands beside bins of wasted and rotting fruit. The contrast of two named types of housewife turns a request to preserve fruit with less sugar into a choice between patriot and waster.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
Let Your Fruit Trees Save Sugar

MRS. PATRIOT'S FRUIT TREE
JARS OF JAM
U.S. PRESERVES
JAM
JELLY
MRS. WASTER'S FRUIT TREE
WASTED FRUIT
ROTTING FRUIT

R. M. BRINKERHOFF

U. S. Food Administration
```

Labels on the jars are repeated 'JAM' and 'JELLY'; the artist signature reads approximately 'R. M. Brinkerhoff'.

[← Lee Keedick Presents Lieutenant Pat O'Brien, Royal Flying Corps, in "My Escape from a German Prison Camp"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lee-keedick-presents-lieutenant-pat-obrien-1918/) [Liberty Bonds Are Fighting Bonds. Buy Them! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/liberty-bonds-are-fighting-bonds-buy-them-1918/)

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