Cover of a USDA circular promoting home production of cotton mattresses. This program not only created a market for a surplus commodity, it helped low-income rural families make a useful product that could improve their home.


Series I, subseries 1, Documentary Files (1914-1939), Box 1.1/8, file "VI B9. Cotton mattress program, Book 1, 1940," USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.