I noticed some traces of faded post-manufacture writing on the bag, and by chance I looked inside the bag...
Some ambitious youth had made the feedsack into a trick-or-treat bag! I am so amused by this, that I am thinking of making this a whole cloth quilt, and not using it for the chicken project. I might just split the bag, and turn the "fill'er up" side out, pairing it with the remaining "right" side for a quilt top. I would stitch the letters to make them show up better, and perhaps add color to the faded printing. I'm not sure what else yet, but I will come up with something more to do with it.
What I would love to know (and sadly never will), is where the kid who used this as a trick-or-treat bag lived. It is a large bag, it once held 100 pounds of feed. I'm assuming he (this must be the work of a teenage boy) lived in a rural area to have access to chicken feed bags, but in a rural area, population is sparse, houses are far apart... slim chance of filling a bag this size with candy. Perhaps he was traveling to a city with visions of lots of candy. I give him credit for dreaming big!
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