WOW - I did not know that a feed sack would be different fabric from a flour sack. Just asked my DH and he said that he remembers getting flour in white cloth sacks - about 25 pound bags. He said that they had an emblem on them from the company (?) and that his mother would bleach out the emblems. He said that the feed sacks held feed for the chickens - not the cows. They were in 100 pound bags - so they would have been quite large pieces of fabric. He said that they would get white feed sacks and his mother would make sheets out of them - seamed I am sure. They had 5 boys and 5 girls - so lots of beds that needed sheets. Very interesting topic!
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PenniF
I agree NikkiLu....I don't know - but I think the flour sack material that some people also remember and my Gram talked about too - was much finer cotton - so that the flour wouldn't leak out - the feed sacks do seem to be a courser cloth.