FALL 2024 SALES DATES FOR... MARCH: LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: 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 maquoketalivestockexchange.com maquoketalivestockexchange@gmail.com ALL SALES START AT 11:30 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 Schlecht’s LUNCH WAGON (563) 682-7865 Miles, IA AVAILABLE FOR AUCTIONS! 100 EASTERN IOWA FARMER | SPRING 2024 eifarmer.com
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