Thanks. The first one was the one I've heard most recently, I thought there might have been another I'd heard longer ago.
Malcolm is right, none of them are actually about housework in the modern sense, more about the work of a farmers wife as opposed to a farmer.
I wanted it to quote on another forum where we are discussing how to encourage an out of work husband to 'help' his working wife with the chores.

I suppose in another way it is relevant, it shows how in all ages 'womens work' has been undervalued. And the one Malcolm linked to is a story of a wife juggling work (dairy, pigs) with housework (children)