When I was about 10 or 11 mother would call my Uncle Dexter and get him to bring a 24 lb sack of flour from the mill to his house. I would get off the school bus and carry it home which was about 2 miles. One morning she asked me how much wheat bran I could carry that she was going to get Dexter to
bring it to his house and for me to get off the bus and bring it home.
Well, if any of you know anything about wheat bran it is light in weight so I said I can carry 24 pounds of flower and bran is lighter than four so I should be able to carry 50 of it .
I thought I would never get that bran home.

You could get fertlizer in 100 or 200 lb sacks. The 200 lb was cheaper so when I was about 16 and thought I was "much of a man" I put at daddy to get our wheat fertlizer in 200 lb sacks to save a few dollars He really didn't want to but gave in.
Now I am here to tell you it was all I could do to shoulder a sack of that fertlizer, carry it up hill and put it in the wheat drill. Next year we had 100 lb sacks. We would probably have 40 lb sacks now

jist ole clyde