I am looking for information on the incomming loads for a small feed mill
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Farm animal feeds bagged or bulk.
Pet feeds bagged and bulk.
Farming supplies-tools like pitch forks,shovels,rubber boots.
Feeding and watering bins.
Some of the feed mills I been in carried seeds-mostly corn or soy beans for the planting season-early spring..
Up until 1978/79 a feed mill in Eastern Ky received a occasional boxcar of bagged feeds but,mostly several covered hoppers of bulk feeds 3-4 times a month.
Larry
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Also a big part of the activity at a feed mill, was local farmers bringing in the grain truck and/or wagons of corn, either shelled or ear corn, and oats, dumping them, and the mill would grind it all and mix it with any supplements that needed to be added, and reload it back on the farmers truck or wagons, in bags, or bulk, and the farmer took it back to his storage facilities, for feeding to his live stock. Which is why it was called the feed mill.
Not specifically railroad related, but, it would add lots of vehicles, people, and action around your feed mill.
I Remeber riding in the truck many times with my step dad and grandpa, on this very mission. While the grain and feed was being milled and mixed, we usually went to the hardware store, maybe the lumber yard, and, every once in a while, we would stop at the local "shot and a beer" joint, and I'd get a candy bar and a bottle of "pop", will the men talked.
Did I get off topic again?
Mike.
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Like Larry said; anything that got used on a farm,fence, wire and posts or example.
Around here, 1950s many mills had lumber yards and equipment sales,and a general store,. under the same owner, like a farmer's mall.
One I recall was a receiving station for veggies,pickles, beans cabbage.Don't know if they used rail, but I remember the tracks right next to the pickle vats.
Back then ,us kids would spend the summer picking pickles and beans to make money for school clothes,and we got ride along when Dad took them in
It was more modern, but the feed mill was where we'd get propane for the gas grill. Only source of propane in the area until the last few years when gas stations and grocery stores started to have those cages of small tanks outside.