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  1. Boil it first, probably be comfortable.

  2. Boil it because it’s got red bugs in it.

  3. Sixty years ago when I was a boy in Florida we pulled moss and sold it to furniture companies which used it to stuff chairs and sofas. I hated doing it because we were eaten up by red bugs and other creepy crawlers which lived in it. A dose of kerosene spread over our clothes and skin was the only help for the damn redbugs. We did what we poor folks could to make a living in those days before the fast food places like McDonalds came along with better poverty wages.

  4. It was still being used in the twentieth century for chair stuffing.

  5. Confederates saddle blankets were also made from Spanish Moss. http://confederatesaddles.com/2008/10/24/416/

    1. Blake Davis it wasn’t very comfortable and it was full of red bugs .

  6. Henry Ford started using it in the seats of his cars and found out it was giving everybody “red bugs”

    1. Roger Gardner that was the cause of the first car recall

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