vintage unbleached cotton fabric feed sacks, lot old farm chicken scratch grain sacks

Lot of four vintage farm feed sacks, Chase bags sewn from unbleached cotton fabric with great graphics printed in red and blue. These are all from Liethen's Best chicken scratch feed, Appleton Wisconsin.

These are full sacks, still sewn up as bags measuring about 19" wide x 40" long. These are are supposed to be the wash out printing.

Needless to say, I haven't washed these – but it's been my experience that the ink is pretty well set at least in cold water after about 60-80 years! I've cleaned sacks with a cool sponging and a very gentle soap. I've lost the printing in warm water, dish detergent or oxi-clean.

These probably can't be scrubbed up to make modern farmhouse style pillows, but I'd frame and hang these authentic vintage pieces just as they are! They do have some spots and soil, and they don't (and won't ever) look new at this point. Also, these do have a few holes. Hens are a little hard on grain sacks!