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n8terry

01-12-2008 19:00:29




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I never hear anyone talk about the farm wives. It seems like they deserve a lot more credit for their efforts than they recieve. I think this was especially true several years back when they helped with the milking, chickens and other chores. I remember how hard my mother worked and never expected any credit. How much talent did it take for a group of women to cook a meal for a group of threshing crew men and the meal was cooked on a wood burning stove during the hottest part of the summer. I wouldn't even want to think about trying that.

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ArleninOr

01-13-2008 13:58:59




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 Re: farm wives in reply to n8terry, 01-12-2008 19:00:29  
Pretty muc the same with mine.Helping with animalsyard work,and tractor work. When I ended up in the hospital she contihued on with the hay harvest for a couple of weeks while I layed around healing up. I think all farm wives must come from the same gene pool and their will be a special place for all of them down the road. I know that mine will go there just for putting up with ornery,mean ugly self.I just love her. Now if she would just quit complaing about her freshly broken ankle and get back to work maybe I can relax.LOL

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Ron in AR

01-13-2008 13:36:28




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 Re: farm wives in reply to n8terry, 01-12-2008 19:00:29  
I'll put my vote in for my wife. I was raised in the country in Ohio, she was raised in the city in New York and was a city gal all her life till we got married and moved to Arkansas. Now she helps with the haying and all the outside work that needs done. She's #1 in my book. Don't know what I would do without her!



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Walt Davies

01-13-2008 11:00:43




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 Re: farm wives in reply to n8terry, 01-12-2008 19:00:29  
In 92 when we bought this place mu wife helped alot outside getting things done then i had heart attack an she had to do all of it I got better over the years and now she is down from this summer so i guess I have to do more of the inside along with the outside. Good thing we don't ever get sick at the same time.
Walt



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barnrat

01-13-2008 10:36:44




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 Re: farm wives in reply to n8terry, 01-12-2008 19:00:29  
My wife has helped with milking, fed calves and handles most of the breeding on our 50 cow dairy farm, and also 90 percent of all the cooking and house chores. She's done that since we started 8 years ago until she got sick this fall and cannot do farm work anymore.



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KCFlame

01-13-2008 10:08:35




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 Re: farm wives in reply to n8terry, 01-12-2008 19:00:29  
Mine objected to waxing the tractor hood and my suggestion to using a toothbrush to clean it in those tight places. She suggested a compromise of me doing the kitchen floor in the same manner so I told her nevermind and I would tend to it myself. I offered to powerwash the kitchen but she refused and she saw no humor when she asked me to vaccume and I went and got the shop vac and started in. Those lace curtains were no match for the powerful lil motor. Guess I will just never understand the way women think.

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rrlund

01-13-2008 09:05:37




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 Re: farm wives in reply to n8terry, 01-12-2008 19:00:29  
Yea,my wife broke her arm a few years ago castrating bulls. I offered to get one of the boys to help me finish up,but she stuck it out til we were done. Reminded me of that hillbilly couple in the movie Planes,Train and Automobiles. The guy said "shoot,her first baby,it come sideways. She didn't scream or nothin".



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Iowa corn and hogs

01-13-2008 05:44:00




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 Re: mine, not my Dad's in reply to n8terry, 01-12-2008 19:00:29  
My wife drives a tandem truck all fall--several hundred loads--this fall it was 7 weeks straight (perfect harvest weather--no rain breaks. She helps load a semiload of hogs at 4 AM every other week, and sometimes helps when new pigs arrive. She keeps 3 sets of business books for 3 sep corps we have, 2 of those are fairy large and complicated. All I do is sign what she puts in front of me as far as bookwork goes. In the spring she hauls seed and spraywater for about a month straight, then hauls post-emerge spray water in the early summer.

She runs in the house a few minutes before the rest of us and fixes meals for our family and the hired help. And she tells people she is not a good farmwife because she doesn't drive a tractor! If she would ever leave,this good-sized operation would faulter beyond belief!

I give her what she wants in the house but she has little time to enjoy it.
God bless her!

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greenblood

01-12-2008 20:51:43




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 Re: farm wives in reply to n8terry, 01-12-2008 19:00:29  
My mom worked real hard and kept us fed but she beat me like a red headed stepchild-not fun.



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37 chief

01-12-2008 19:25:53




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 Re: farm wives in reply to n8terry, 01-12-2008 19:00:29  
I will have to put in a good word for my dear Mom. She never worked outside the family farm, but had her hands full taking care of three boys. She always had a good meal for everyone, including the hired hand, who ate with us morning, noon, and evening. Mom and Dad have both passed away. but will always remember Mom always being home. Stan



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Tdoto

01-12-2008 20:07:50




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 Re: farm wives in reply to 37 chief, 01-12-2008 19:25:53  
I also remember back when we were threshing, and Dad had the machine and did custom threshing, Mom and I would do chores, with Mom milking 16-18 cows and she would milk them out in the yard because it was to hot to put them in stalls, set the buckets of milk in the feed bunk and my job was to watch that they(buckets) did not get knocked over by the other cows. Dad would get home about sun down, after greasing and preparing the machine for the next day.Then he would finish up separating the milk and feeding the fat cattle by hand with a bushel basket(some 30 head)and the 500 lb calves. Mom would go in and start or finish supper. I dont know how Mom or Dad did it all. They both made it to 90 years of age. Bless Mom and Dad.

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Pete in Cal

01-12-2008 22:41:59




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 Re: farm wives in reply to Tdoto, 01-12-2008 20:07:50  
My mother and father both worked hard on the ranch raising cattle, sheep, turkeys, chickens and geese. My mother also tended a large garden which supplied us with fresh vegetables along with fruit in season from the orchard. My job was to keep the wood box full for heating and cooking. Haying added to the lunch crew which my mother fed along with the family.



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