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title: 'Work for a Record Harvest: Only by frequent hoeing can weeds be destroyed'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-work-for-a-record-harvest-hoeing-1939/
description: A photograph of eight young people hoeing a field is set in a painted window frame above the slogan 'Work for a record harvest'.
section: Collection
---

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# Work for a Record Harvest: Only by frequent hoeing can weeds be destroyed

A photograph of eight young people hoeing a field is set in a painted window frame above the slogan 'Work for a record harvest'. The line of workers shows the task as already shared by many, the bandwagon tell, while the message above it is plain farming instruction.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Only by frequent hoeing can weeds be destroyed
and the fields give their greatest possible yield

WORK FOR A RECORD HARVEST

[signature:] BEVERLEY PICK
```

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