Feed/Seed Sacks
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Topic: Feed/Seed Sacks
Posted By: Steve M Ind
Subject: Feed/Seed Sacks
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 3:48pm
I collect some farm memorabilia thought I'd show you guys my sacks.        
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Posted By: Steve M Ind
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 3:54pm
     
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Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 3:59pm
| I still run across aprons my mom made from the printed like material ones. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 7:02pm
There are a lot of sad girls out there that didn't get to have a pretty dress cause of you! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 10:45pm
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Grandma was the one who bought chicken feed in the nicest cotton print feed sacks money could buy. I remember giving her a hand pulling the seam thread out of lots of them after they were emptied into the feed barrels. Our farm folks back in them days came up with lots of practical ideas to keep themselves busy beside listening to WLS. The Prairie Farmer Station. That's how it was before TV and the Internet screwed everyone up.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 11 Mar 2019 at 10:48pm
| years ago we did the back splash under our kitchen cabinets with printed potato burlap sacks. really looked nice. you have a nice collection! |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2019 at 9:34am
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GREAT collection Steve!! When I think of the ones that got burned when the barn went up..... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2019 at 1:48pm
| Very nice collection |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2019 at 3:29pm
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And,,,,and,,,,here I always thought all them nice shirts was made of them patterns,,,,chit I thought we was chittin in tall cotton when we gots a new shirt for school,,,,,,,,
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Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2019 at 4:34pm
| I remember a lot of very nice looking skirts and dresses were made from flour sacks. I think that was the selling point for the flour. Leon |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 at 1:55pm
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Nice collection Steve! When I saw the headline, it reminded me of looking for those big 4' square woven plastic bags. Was looking to buy some so typed "big bags" into Google, wasn't until the third page did I find what I was looking for..... ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 at 2:03pm
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The memories of my Great Aunts 'Tending' aprons came flooding back. She would have a few Nice aprons for wearing around the house while cooking or when guests and family would come by, she carried a nice one in her car in case was a Need of one at church services. She had feed and seed sack aprons for chores as Tending the Chickens or throwing to the Hogs, she even wore one for milking over her bib overalls covering her dress. Made My day!! |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 3:38am
------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
DMiller wrote:Posted By: Ranse
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 8:59am
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My mother used to talk about having clothes made out of flour sacks. She said companies would put their product in nice sacks so they would sell more flour. All bags are biodegradable now. The co-op feed sacks I buy have nice pictures of cattle on them. I don't save the whole bag, but I cut the pictures out of a few and tacked them on the wall inside the barn. They won't last, but they can be easily replaced. I thought about framing one. It should hold up behind glass. It sounds silly but I think it would look nice. I like your collection. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 9:42am
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No coffee. Is it the caffeine or the tsunami maker aspect, or maybe just plain old don't care for it any more? ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 11:55am
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I have had my hands on way to many sacks over the years,but never once on any like the ones pictured. I have read about flour sack cloth,but don't remeber ever seeing any out here. I know as a kid my mother got the biggest flour sack the store had , but already paper by 1960. Feed sacks were that ruff burlap or paper. A lot of sacks were recycled bean or potato, I guess mostly bean. Potato sacks were coarser weave and best for rolled barley.BTO planted certified barley,oats,and wheat then the rest would buy the one year off from them to seed crops so no company to put there name all over a seed sack ether. So seed was in just about kind burlap that would not leak bad. Neet see your collection.
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 12:18pm
It was a sight to behold Ted, she would step into those bibs, slide them up until her dress bunched then patiently adjust it to a folded layer at the front, then set the bib straps, apron on last. Only took her a few minutes and set to milking. Pop the straps at the end and hang the bibs back on the nail in the breezeway. Stayed dirty most of a week then got washed with all the rest. And yes, they were quite over sized for her. |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 12:54pm
Ted I miss read your post.  You gots to get that fixed, priority 1.  ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 8:16pm
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My mother and oldest sisters knew all too well them flour sack dresses back in the 30s and 40s. ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2019 at 6:36pm
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I saw a pile of those at the "antique" store- flea market last fall. I dug threw them and saw one I almost bought. Wish I would have gotten it now. It was from Producers Seed company. My Dad used to sell Producers seed corn. Maybe it will still be there next time I get up that way. Then I'll have to take something off the wall here, so I can hang it up. I like the Master Mix one you have. Dad used Master Mix protein when I was growing up, but it was in a paper sack by my time. He did have a White pith helmet, he only wore while cultivating corn, that had a Master Mix Chevron logo on the front. wish I knew what happened to it. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2019 at 10:56pm
| If the flour didn't sell you the one with the wrapper that would look best on you would and you'd probably buy enough of it to make the entire dress or shirt right then to make sure you had enough material to make the whole thing. Right smart retailing I'd say. |