Poster
An Acre of Roots Will Winter Your Stock
| Poster featuring a large root vegetable. Highlights of text the reads: "An acre of roots will winter your stock... Why grow roots?... Why feed roots?... Big roots cut feed bills... Preparing and cultivating the soil... More cows and roots will make you money while you are clearing your farm. Why not buy on or two more cows? Roots will help you feed them over the winter. Prepared under the direction of the State Council of Defense by the Agricultural Experiment Station, the University of Wisconsin Madison. Next fall write for folder on storing and feeding root crops 'More food this year is patriotism.'" |
| Image ID: | 132844 |
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| Creation Date: | 1917 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
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| Collection Name: | World War I posters, circa 1914-circa 1918 |
| Genre: | Poster |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6030 (7) P3b.5 |
| Original Dimensions: | 13 x 24.5 inches |
| Small print at top of poster reads "Emergency poster 5. April, 1918." |
| World War, 1914-1918 |
| War posters |
| Propaganda |
| Agriculture |
| Vegetables |
| Cows and Cattle |
| Fund raising |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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