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Life Lessons<br />
Using Your Resources<br />
The Kilburgs have been preparing<br />
their own meat for five generations<br />
Kilburg Corners was<br />
a buzz with activity<br />
when butchering days<br />
arrived. Everyone had multiple<br />
jobs to do so they would have<br />
plenty of food for winter.<br />
A fire roared underneath a cauldron of<br />
churning water, waiting to scald the next<br />
hog.<br />
Butchering is grueling, exhausting,<br />
grimy work, but it’s been worth it for<br />
at least five generations of the Tony<br />
and Rosella Kilburg family and their<br />
offspring in rural Jackson County. They<br />
have sausage, pork chops, pork loin, tenderloin,<br />
headcheese, bacon, yips, blood<br />
sausage, brain – enough (hopefully) to<br />
last for a year.<br />
And you sure didn’t waste it.<br />
“It was way too precious to sell it or<br />
waste it, and it was too much work!” said<br />
Larry Kilburg, who still lives on the family<br />
farm northwest of Andrew with his<br />
wife, Julie. They no longer butcher as his<br />
parents did, but his siblings and offspring<br />
carry on the tradition.<br />
Larry Kilburg still lives on the family farm<br />
northwest of Andrew with his wife Julie.<br />
For years the family has raised and prepared<br />
its own meat.<br />
eastern iowa farmer photo / Brooke Taylor<br />
hiGh expecTaTionS<br />
“Because of<br />
your support,<br />
we are<br />
investing in<br />
the future.<br />
Come see<br />
the new mill!”<br />
— Sam & Joanne<br />
The Feed and Grain Store<br />
Sam and Joanne Lee<br />
415 1st St, DeWitt, IA 52742 Phone:(563) 659-9236<br />
28 <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> <strong>Farmer</strong> | spring <strong>2017</strong>
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