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Indian Farm Wives
Also Work in Fields
In addition to doing their home chores, farm wives in India help with all the work on the farm except plowing, says Robert Jenkins of Madison County, a delegate to India under the 4-H sponsored International Farm Youth Exrchange program.
A graduate of V irginia Poly' technic Institute last June with a degree in animal science, the 25-year-old Jenkins is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Jenkins of Graves Mill. He will complete his sixmonth’s stay in India and return to the United States late in March. "The typical day of an Indian farm wife begins at about 5 o’clock, while it is still dark," writes Jenkins. “She gets up and prepares breakfast over a fire box built out of mud or, if she is more progressive, over a miniature oil burner.
“After completing breakfast and other household chores, she leaves for the fields at about 8 o’clock. She works there by herself or with her hushand until about 11, when she returns home and prepares the mid-day meal. Then she goes back to the fields and works there until it’s time to prepare the evening meal."
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