Farmers Can Prevent Forest Fires

Plow Around to Prevent Forest Fires: See Your Fire Warden

Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Notes: An attractive color lithograph poster encouraging farmers to create fire breaks between their fields and woodland areas. Despite dating from the Second World War, the poster depicts a farmer pushing a horse-drawn plow instead of a tractor. Another man burns slash with a barn in the background.

The Forest Service issued various posters with the same headline but different images.

20 by 14-1/4 inches (oblong). Poster O-569070.

Edition + Condition: Near fine. Folded as issued. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction. Ships flat.

Publication: [Washington, DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944.

Item No: #308112

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