Hurry!! Cull your hens, reduce feed bills – Historic Reproduction
![Hurry!! Cull your hens, reduce feed bills, [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/409a569b938f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This vintage poster of Hurry!! Cull your hens, reduce feed bills brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hurry!! Cull your hens, reduce feed bills
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Hurry" is the opening word of this 1917 color lithograph, a New York State Food Supply Commission poster urging poultry keepers to cull their hens and cut their feed bills. In 1917, grain was in heavy demand because the United States was shipping wheat, corn and other staples to Allied countries and asking households and farms to conserve food. Culling meant selling or slaughtering hens that were no longer laying, which kept scarce feed going to the birds that still produced eggs. The poster shows that the wartime food effort reached backyard flocks as well as large commercial farms.
| Created / published | [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 70 x 49 cm. |
| Genre | War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | S-5-27. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | New York State Food Supply Commission--1910-1920. World War, 1914-1918--Economic & industrial aspects--United States. Poultry industry--New York (State)--1910-1920. Chickens--New York (State)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,504 × 4,427 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222790 |
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