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World War II - Crop Corps (Lihat sumbernya di sini)
In the summer of 1943 the United States was in the midst of World War II. The Sunday World-Herald Magazine on July 4 of that year, in a special "Nebraska at War" edition, reported the state's contribution to the war effort. The publication included an appeal for Nebraska city dwellers to join the "Crop Corps." According to the World-Herald Magazine:
"Harvest brings the big opportunity for Nebraska's town and city people to lend a helping hand. Farmers and their families and what steady hired help they have usually manage to get the crops planted and tended and keep up reasonably well the chores of caring for cattle, horses, sheep, hogs and chickens, repairing machinery and making gardens. But when it comes to the harvest, they must have outside help.
"Elaborate machinery has been set up this year to organize a 'Crop Corps,' the ranks of which will include all nonfarm men who can give some time to work on the farm, nonfarm boys and girls 14 to 18 who will work under the banner of the 'Victory Farm Volunteers' and nonfarm women who will serve in a 'Women's Land Army.'
"In every town some person serves as the volunteer representative of the agricultural extension service and United States employment service, sponsoring agencies, in registering the names of town people who will help and farmers who need help. County agricultural agents have the responsibility for farm labor in their counties, and when their local supply won't meet the demand they appeal to state headquarters, which will then dispatch workers from some other area, if available.
"How completely farmers make known in advance their needs and how willingly the townspeople turn out to help will in large measure determine Nebraska's food contribution in this vital war year. This system of mutual cooperation must work successfully in the wheat and spring grain harvest all the way across the state, in the stacking of alfalfa and wild hay, in the harvesting this fall of beans, potatoes and sugar beets, and finally in husking the corn next winter."
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Crop Harvests at Home in America during World War II
The United States Government campaigned to find pickers to bring in the harvests during the war years, 1941-1945. Congress authorized funds for an Emergency Farm Labor Service that included the Women's Land Army, a branch of the U.S. Crop Corps. These organizations were specifically designed to get laborers into the orchards and fields to bring in the crops during a time of extreme farm worker shortage on the homefront.
War genre, patriotic posters have an important place in our cultural and social history. Here are a few examples on an agricultural theme that FruitFromWashington has gleaned from the National Archives.
Cotton, legume and grass seed as well as other war time crops were all in need of extra laborers at harvest time. These historic posters that promoted the U.S. Crop Corps can be found in the National Archives and Records Administration and specifically the Still Picture Branch (NWDNS), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland. Some of these posters were created by the Office of War Information (OWI) in conjunction with other departments including the War Food Administration.
The timely harvest of fruits, vegetables and other farm products, such as cotton, was a priority. Every effort was made to prevent waste and spoilage of much needed foodstocks and farm products. A high profile print and radio advertising campaign got results.
Food was a national concern in the United States during Second World War years.
"Make Food Fight for Freedom by Eating Wisely" was the title of a booklet prepared by the War Ad Council around 1944. Citizens were encouraged to cooperate with rationing efforts ("Rationing Safeguards Your Share") and to grow Victory Gardens ("Grow it Yourself"). The bounty produced from a plot of land was too valuable to waste. Not to grow a garden or care for fruiting shrubs and trees was considered unpatriotic. To fail to preserve its bounty was downright un-American. One 1946, Department of Agriculture poster carried the message, "Am I Proud -- I'm fighting famine . . . by canning food at home."
"Get the Good...From Fruit" was the title of a World War II Era Poster prepared by the Bureau of Home Economics - U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of Government Reports, United States Information Service. It's message was: Use fruit juice fresh....if it has to stand, keep covered and cold. Cook in the peel if you can....if you must peel, make it thin.
United States War Production Board encouraged the Tending of Victory Gardens.
A Little Cultivation Now! Means a Big Harvest Later On! This poster produced by the War Production Board during 1942 or 1943, urges citizens to "Take Care of Your Victory Garden." Source: National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD (NWDNS-179-WP-269)
See more about growing your own vegetables for a common cause from the era of the First World War, excerpted from Bolton Hall's Three Acres and Liberty (1918).
Harvest Scenes were a standard subject for the Work Progress Administration Arts Project during the New Deal Era, between the First and Second World Wars.
Arnold Blanch, painted this harvest scene in 1937 as part of the WPA Arts Project. The oil on canvas painting depicts people picking apples in an orchard and participating in other farm activities. The painting is displayed in Fredonia, New York's (Chautauqua) Post Office. Click for more information on the New Deal for the Arts. (Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY 12538)
Artists working under the Federal Art Project also produced color posters to inform and instruct the populace about good dietary practice.
The Federal Art Project sponsored by the Work Projects Administration produced color silkscreened prints on posterboard which have been collected by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (Washington, D.C.) as part of their Work Projects Administration Poster Collection. Here are three examples which highlight and promote the sale and consumption of fruit for better health!
During World War I, the United States Food Administration encouraged conservation of food resources by publishing a series of patriotic posters. The message was urgent to save food, don't waste it.
Sugar was a scarce item during the First World War years. "Let Your Fruit Trees Save Sugar" is the title of a war era poster showing the U.S. (P)reserves of soldiering jars of jams and jellies marching beneath the proud gaze of Mrs. Patriot's Fruit Tree while Mrs. Waster's Fruit Tree glowers over the rotting and wasted fruit at her feet. The message is not very subtle. This campaign effectively instilled a sense of "fruit guilt" in our grandparents' and parents' generations that continues to thrive today. We know this because of the healthy dose of "fruit guilt" we inherited from them.
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