Hurry!! Cull Your Hens, Reduce Feed Bills – Historic Print
(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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Hurry!! Cull Your Hens, Reduce Feed Bills
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Urging farmers and poultry keepers to thin their flocks, this 1917 color lithograph is a wartime food poster issued by the New York State Food Supply Commission. The United States entered World War I that April, and officials worried that feed grain shipped to Europe and used at home would grow scarce and expensive. Culling unproductive hens, meaning removing the birds that laid poorly, saved feed while keeping the best layers for eggs and meat. The poster's blunt "Hurry!!" reflects how urgent the campaign was framed as being, and it is a useful example of how civilian food conservation was pitched to rural households.
| Created / published | c. 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, poster, lithograph, color, 70 x 49 cm. |
| Notes | Forms part of Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection, S-5-27. New York State Food Supply Commission |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,351 × 3,359 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222790 |
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