KC Pet Food

Due to giving needy consumers heating credit, the company struggled during the early stages of the Great Depression. In the 1940s and 1950s, the company shifted its emphasis to supplying the feed requirements of nearby dairies, which led to its becoming a full-time feed dealer. From all the grain that railroad companies had dumped on the lines at the time, they established a salvage grain company. Reselling the grain to nearby gain enterprises after cleaning it. At the time, they produced MCDONALD'S BIG DOG FOOD, a dry dog food in the ration style that they sold for 40 years. John's son John J. McDonald oversaw the business until February.