straw tick

noun2

1. •
   A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.
2. •
   The empty mattress bag of such a mattress.

   • A straw tick was as important to a bed as the feather. A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing. — 1949