1.   As it was, she was mostly a farm wife with all that entails and implies and, frankly, a darned good role model.

2.   A city girl at heart, she said if I wanted a farm wife I could move in with Meryl Streep.

3.   But rather than summoning actual suffering farmers, the panel brought in several millionaire actresses who had portrayed farm wives in movies or on TV.

4.   Elsie Scheer, a retired farm wife and member of the Beardstown Ladies, said Friday that she was hurt by the allegations.

5.   Even farm wives have jobs outside the home these days.

6.   Farm wives used to make gingerbread to sell at the polls on Election Day.

7.   Even in this century, if we can believe elder relatives, farm wives had a terrible burden of chores.

8.   I can well imagine a farm wife throwing okra into the pot when no beans were available.

9.   It had been built, she said, for the farm wife who had been relocated when her house had been razed for the interstate.

10.   Mary is a New England farm wife, being urged to rush about her autumn chores by her stout husband.