Re: feed mill-elevators from days gone past

Posted by Bill(Wis) on January 16, 2021 at 13:23:50 from (148.75.118.81):

In Reply to: feed mill-elevators from days gone past posted by swindave on January 16, 2021 at 11:24:17:

I worked at a feed mill right after High school graduation. It was a brand new mill situated on the site of the old mill that had burned down. Was heated (rare for a feed mill to be heated) used a 100 HP electric motor to drive the hammermill which could feed two mixers. Sold top brand feeds, like Ralston Purina and made our own brand of egg mash and hog feed called Farmstead. Sold Royster Guano fertilizer and we also owned a nice store in the middle of town which concentrated on garden equipment, seeds of all kinds, garden and farm seeds, corn, oats, wheat, alfalfa, clover. Bought seeds from farmers and also cleaned seeds for farmers. seeds purchased from farmers were cleaned and certified by state inspectors for resale. Mill had a rail siding on each end and it was common to have a boxcar filled with animal feeds (bran, brewers grains, soybean oil meal, and other stuff that you feed to cows, chickens, pigs, horses, turkeys, etc) parked on each end. It was always busy except maybe during a big blizzard but that lull would be made up for in succeeding days. We were also a distributor for Niagara Chemicals for the four-state area of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North and South Dakota. So all of the Niagara Chemicals for those four states would come through us and in that day it was all contained in 55 gallon barrels. Used to park rail cars side by side on two side by side sidings to transfer products to new locations. Someone mentioned rats and mice. No such thing except for an occasional dead one. Company contracted with an exterminating company from Green Bay that was owned and operated by Tony Candadeo, a famous retired Green Bay Packers football player. He would drive up every few weeks in a big Cadillac Coupe De Ville and get his stuff out of the trunk. He used some kind of liquid that was as clear as water and placed it with a syringe into a ceramic coated Mason Jar lid protected by a metal shield to prevent it from being tipped over. Occasionally we would find a dead mouse that had made it no more than about 3 feet from the bait station. That was some powerful stuff. He was a great guy. Friendly as could be and appeared to be older than he actually was. Farmers from all around brought their grain and corn (usually on the cob) to be ground and mixed with supplements and then usually bagged back on their trucks, wagons, trailers, trunks of their cars, whatever. I remember Ford Model A pickups coming in and parking right beside a brand new Ford or Dodge two ton flatbed and then another guy coming in with a Nash upside down bathtub car and a little old lady who had a herd of 7 or 8 guernsey's coming in with another Model A pickup and then the BTO of that day showing up with a big truck with enough grain on it to fill both of our mixers. Great, great people. An old chicken farmer who carried his false teeth in the bib pocket of his overalls. Well, he only needed them for eating.

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