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title: 'Produce high grade cotton: Make the grade this year'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/produce-high-grade-cotton-make-the-grade-1944/
description: A soldier in a helmet with a submachine gun crouches beside a large cotton boll on a red ground, the boll carrying four picking rules.
section: Collection
---

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[![Produce high grade cotton: Make the grade this year, 1944 US poster: A soldier in a helmet with a submachine gun crouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/produce-high-grade-cotton-make-the-grade-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/produce-high-grade-cotton-make-the-grade-1944.jpg)

# Produce high grade cotton: Make the grade this year

A soldier in a helmet with a submachine gun crouches beside a large cotton boll on a red ground, the boll carrying four picking rules. The pairing 'More equipment for him ... more money for you!' ties crop quality to the soldier (transfer) and to the grower's own income, with only the benefits stated.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Produce
HIGH GRADE
Cotton
PICK DRY AS POSSIBLE
KEEP TRASH OUT
PICK BEFORE WEATHER DAMAGE
KEEP GOOD COTTON SEPARATE
More equipment for HIM
...more money for YOU!
MAKE THE GRADE THIS YEAR
[signature:] ROBERT E LEE
[handwritten:] Cotton
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—[number illegible]
```

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