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Butter in the Mail :: From Farm to Table
Experiments in an Epistolary Economy
Jesse Vogler and Szu-Han Ho
2009

essay published in bracket [on farming], 2010

"If every farmer will, in a sense, become a truck gardener, he will be given sufficient assistance by the postmasters, in every way, to enable him to find a ready direct market for the products he can raise. Plant more corn, feed more hogs and cattle, conserve your pigs and calves, plant more potatoes, more wheat, more vegetables, conserve your fruit trees, take a greater interest in poultry; the demand is going to be active and increased, and

YOU CAN RENDER PATRIOTIC SERVICE BY DOING YOUR PART AS AN AGRICULTURAL SOLDIER IN YOUR FIELD."

- Colin M. Delph, Postmaster, Saint Louis, MO
July 1, 1917

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