I worked in an Iowa feed mill in the mid-to-late 1950s. Sacks of protein were still mostly in 100 lb cloth sacks.
Burlap was mostly used for light and bulky feed ingredients (bran comes to mind), but usually not for the heavier more dense proteins.
We would have stacks of different protein feeds; several stacks of hog feed, stacks of chicken feed, etc. Most stacks were 5-8 bags high. And every cloth sack was of a different and colorful pattern.
Farmers would walk into the feed room (where the mixer and grinder was), holding a small swatch of whatever their wives sent them with, and darned near every time they"d select the bottom or near bottom sack because of the pattern.
So I would work my way down to that low sack, carry it to the mixer and re-stack the inventory until another farmer walked in and then I often had to tear it apart again.(Murphy"s Law).
50 lb. paper sacks became popular in the late 1950s.
Many a colorful blouse, skirt or dress was made with these cloth bags...and some of the women were very skilled at this and their results looked very nice.
LA in WI
PS Questions for old-timers (most young"uns won"t have a clue):
1.Do you remember oyster shells coming in dense 50 lb bags?
2.How about "grit"...in bags marked "coarse ground" or "fine ground"?
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