Subject: Re: grain sacks made into ???? From: JoAnn Hallquist <hallquist357@amerytel.net> Message-ID: <7dfe049f-5e09-ae25-a15f-a3ae1712ce74@amerytel.net> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 13:45:20 -0600
Having been born in 1933, I remember printed flour sacks and grain sacks
and the difference. Printed or plain flour sacks had many uses: for
dresses like skirts, diapers, dish towels, pillow covers, sheets,
curtains, anything in the textile line. (Early mills often had
equipment to produce local flour from local grain but they didn't have
printed flour sacks.)
Re grain sacks, you took your grain in sacks (not suitable for textile
uses) to be milled at the local mill, mainly producing milled feed for
the farmer's animals. Special sacks, more tightly woven than general
grain sacks, were used to carry home the grain that had been cleaned at
the mill and was saved for the next planting season. Hopefully, all the
weed seed got removed at the mill. The fabric prevented the loss of
any of the precious seed grain. These special sacks often had the name
of the farmer stenciled in large letters on the sack.
Sorry, I didn't pay close attention to the original email asking for
information on grain sacks.
-- JoAnn Hallquist 715-268-6134 715-338-7885