"He calls his wife with him...."

Being a farmer's wife, you sometimes get asked to do some unusual things.  Here are just a few that I have experienced:

"The boys are busy with the cows....can you bring me the loader tractor?"  This was my farmer calling me for help.  He was out in the field working ground and the cultipacker had unhitched itself  while  bouncing over the rough ground.  He wanted me to lift the cultipacker with the bucket of the loader while he hitched it back up.  So off I go to bring the tractor meanwhile getting my right eye full of dirt....it's hard to drive with one eye shut.  I really had a hard time seeing the hitch while I lifted it up for him to back up the field cultivator.  He finally got 'er hitched back up and so home I go bouncing along on the tractor and acting like I know what I'm doing. (while holding one eye shut)  Now my eye is scratched and irritated.....

"I need you to hold a cow's tail for me." Why, you might ask, would I have to do that?  If a cow is acting ornery and wants to kick her milker off or is trying to kick your farmer, a good way to get her to stand still is to grab her tail and twist it straight up. Believe me it's not an easy job. You must push her tail up with all of your might, while keeping an eye on the exposed, smelly end of the cow.

"Just lift me up on the bucket tractor."  He doesn't know that his life is in danger.  He really has confidence that I know how to operate the hydraulics for the bucket.  What he doesn't know is that I'm beginning to sweat and tremble, wondering if I will remember which way to move the lever for up or down or TILT.  This is a good time to pray.

"Don't let that cow through the gate!"  Well, your farmer has ask you to help moove some animals.  Seems casual enough.  But, when one animal starts mooving, they all decide to moove....and your farmer only wants certain animals to go through the gate.  Why is it the wrong ones are the only cows that go through the gate?  You see a side to your farmer's personality that you never knew existed, especially when you let the wrong cows go through the gate!

"Guide me while I back this wagon in."  Sounds like an important job.  Kinda like those guys that guide the airplanes on the runway.  Except you are behind the wagon not in front where he can see you.  Oh, did I mention...our tractors don't have rearview mirrors.  You get the picture.

"The heifers are out; I need you to help!"  This is really fun.  To be a farmers wife you should be in pretty good physical shape.   Never know when you have to run a marathon and play chase with a bunch of bovines.

"Can you come and stand at the silo for me?  Now this doesn't mean just stand around and pose at the silo,  this is a scary job.  While your farmer goes in the silo,  you must know which buttons to push to lower or raise the silo unloader.  For the life of me, I can never understand the mechanics of a silo unloader.  But I just do as I'm told and hope I push the right buttons at the right time while the wind is blowing  and swirling smelly silage in my hair and down my collar.  (The wind is always blowing around the silos.)

There are LOTS of things that a farmer's wife gets to experience in her lifetime.  And its nice to feel needed.  At the end of the day when your farmer comes in, heaves a tired sigh ,and with a twinkle in his eye, says,"Thanks for helping me today,"  you know its been worth it all.

" I believe that when God calls a man to service, if he's a married man and has a helpmate, He calls his wife with him, because they two are one." 

 62-0506 Bro. Branham