I am an X Jersey boy but I don't remember calling them that. But then, you were further north from me by about 30 miles. LOL Tony
--- On Mon, 10/12/09, Alan Di Somma <phxflyt...@cox.net> wrote: From: Alan Di Somma <phxflyt...@cox.net> Subject: Re: KAPOK - was [VFB] Re: Gather milkweed To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 9:44 PM We called them "Money Stealers" back in NJ in the 40's. Thank you, Alan Di Somma Phoenix, It's Arpaiolicious!" http://www.azflyfishing.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony Spezio To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:53 PM Subject: Re: KAPOK - was [VFB] Re: Gather milkweed Now that we are getting to collecting Milkweed for the War Effort, we as students in school, in the fall of the year collected the pods, that is not what we called them. I have forgotten what is was. In any case, our school was a collection station and we had contests on what class would collect the most. We walked along the road out of the city and in the fields to collect the milkweed pods. That was a lifetime ago. Tony --- On Mon, 10/12/09, Allan Fish <afi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: From: Allan Fish <afi...@sbcglobal.net> Subject: KAPOK - was [VFB] Re: Gather milkweed To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 8:06 PM Mike Bliss spaketh thusly: >I have done the Milkweed fly. But Kapok is actually I think >something way different. As I remember it comes from a tree. Mike, you're right on. They gathered milkweed seeds to replace kapok during Archie Bunker's BIG War (WWII) when Kapok was unavailable. Memory says it came from the Phillipines which wer under Japanese occupation. At least that is what we were told at the time. Hmmmmm. Wikipedia (can you believe something anyone can edit?) says that Kapok is native to Mexico and Central AMerica. Then they show pictures of kapok trees in Haaii and India. The milkweed collection was probably because they could not get enough kapok. I was too young to be involved but my brother decided he was going to get rich - I think you could get $10 for a pound of milkweed seeds. But I think a pound of milkweed seeds would be about 4 or 5 bushels and he rapidly found that there was not that much milkweed in the county. Thanks for resurrecting memories. a. -- Allan Fish Greenwood, IN afi...@sbcglobal.net No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.12/2431 - Release Date: 10/12/09 13:01:00 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
