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Maquoketa Livestock Exchange
➢ Fri., March 1..................Hay Sale
➢ Sat., March 2..................Special Bred Cow/Heifer Sale
➢ Wed., March 6..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., March 8..................Hay Sale
➢ Wed., March 13..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., March 15..................Hay Sale
➢ Sat., March 16..................Special Feeder Sale
➢ Wed., March 20..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., March 22..................Hay Sale
➢ Wed.,March 27..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., March 29..................Hay Sale
APRIL:
➢ Wed., April 3..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., April 5..................Hay Sale
➢ Wed., April 10..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., April 12..................Hay Sale
➢ Wed., April 17..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., April 19..................Hay Sale
➢ Sat., April 20..................Special Feeder Sale
➢ Wed., April 24..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., April 26..................Hay Sale
MAY:
➢ Wed., May 1..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., May 3..................Hay Sale
➢ Wed., May 8..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., May 10..................Hay Sale
➢ Wed., May 15..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., May 17..................Hay Sale
➢ Wed., May 22..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., May 24..................Hay Sale
➢ Wed., May 29..................Cattle Sale
➢ Fri., May 31..................Hay Sale
Kevin Kilburg - 563-543-4459
Barn Phone- 563-652-5674
Bill Kilburg 563-357-0605
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18140 33rd Street, Maquoketa
(Take Hwy. 64 West past Theisens, then E. on 33rd St.)
THE LAND
extensive corn agriculture. or lambsquarter), all now
Later that same fall, I regarded as little more than
believe, the crew excavated
a red stone figurine of The Grandmother sym-
weeds infesting farm fields.
a kneeling woman with a bol remained important in
cat-headed snake curling later Siouan belief (both our
around her legs and feet. The native Ioway people and
woman’s hand rests on the their closely related cousins,
snake’s neck while with the the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago
were Siouan), especially
other hand holding a hoe she
is stroking the snake’s back. among the farming tribes of
The snake’s tail splits into the Missouri River Valley,
two squash vines that curl up the Mandan and Hidatsa,
the woman’s back. The archaeological
crew evidently
who believe that the Old
Woman returns each spring
was digging in a ceremonial
with the geese from the
precinct and later found four
south.
additional figurines, all with
As our modern technological
agriculture grows more
varying symbolism, close by.
An excellent book for anyone
interested in indigenous
and more removed from
the world of nature there is
agriculture is Gayle J. Fritz’s
something therapeutic in
“Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture
in the North American
Heartland” (University
seeing these ancient figurines
created by a people who
of Alabama Press, 2019).
saw agriculture as a natural
She identifies the figure as
organic growth from a long
the Grandmother or the Old- tradition of hunting and gathering
from the earth’s natural
Woman-Who-Never-Dies,
the guardian of all vegetation,
married to Grandfather It is easy to feel the beauty
bounty.
Snake, symbols of the earth of the native account of
and all its bounty. It is important
to know that before side roads in August past
farming when we drive the
corn came to the Midwest the ripening corn seemingly
sprung up out of the
from Mexico, Native people
had already domesticated luxuriant roadside tangle of
many native crops, gourds goldenrod, grapevines and
and squashes, marshelder, milkweed. The land, with its
maygrass, knotweed, and exuberant drive for life, will
Chenopodium (goosefoot endure. n
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