In the late 1940s through the 1950s several of my shirts were from feed sacks as were my bedroom curtains and our kitchen curtains, as were several dresses of my sisters and mother. Mom's brother, Clarence, had a dairy and turkey farm in Polk County, Wisconsin. When we visited ("up from The Cities") my mom would lay out the emptied sacks from the turkey-feed and make her choice based on what she needed for her next sewing project. I believe, she may have paid her brother a nickle or dime per sack because there was a tiny extra cost or hassle in choosing feed in those sacks.
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