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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 9572, member: 78"]Hi Messi,</p><p>The feed came in sacks but it a smooth burlap type material. We used it for wash clothes (rags). They called the flour and sugar bags feed sacks because they came from the feed and fuel stores. It was about the only things we bought because we did not mill flour or make sugar. I used to get rabbit food (pellets) in the winter. We did this up to the late 50s long after the depression era. The only other thing was getting crushed oyster shells for the chickens. They had to have "gravel" to keep grinding corn in their gizzards. The oyster shells gave them calcium to keep their shells hard.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 9572, member: 78"]Hi Messi, The feed came in sacks but it a smooth burlap type material. We used it for wash clothes (rags). They called the flour and sugar bags feed sacks because they came from the feed and fuel stores. It was about the only things we bought because we did not mill flour or make sugar. I used to get rabbit food (pellets) in the winter. We did this up to the late 50s long after the depression era. The only other thing was getting crushed oyster shells for the chickens. They had to have "gravel" to keep grinding corn in their gizzards. The oyster shells gave them calcium to keep their shells hard. greg[/QUOTE]
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