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title: 'Seed needed: help fight famine'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seed-needed-help-fight-famine-1946/
description: 'Agricultural poster: two cupped hands pour out clover and alfalfa seed under the headline ''Seed Needed'' and the line ''Help Fight Famine''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Seed needed: help fight famine, 1946 US poster: Agricultural poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/seed-needed-help-fight-famine-1946.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/seed-needed-help-fight-famine-1946.jpg)

# Seed needed: help fight famine

Agricultural poster: two cupped hands pour out clover and alfalfa seed under the headline 'Seed Needed' and the line 'Help Fight Famine', with a red disc announcing 1946 special payments. The technique is faint: a broad humanitarian cause ('famine') is paired with a plain farm task and a payment incentive.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
SEED NEEDED
RED
CLOVER-
ALFALFA
-ALSIKE
FOR
MORE FEED and
BIGGER CROPS
1946
SPECIAL
PAYMENTS
AGRICULTURAL
CONSERVATION
PROGRAM
HELP FIGHT FAMINE
PRODUCTION AND MARKETING ADMINISTRATION — U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 1946
[imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946, remainder illegible]
```

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