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LR 455
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aquacultural, or horticultural commodity, including the
raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training and
management of livestock, bees, poultry and fur-bearing
animals and wildlife;

 
(2) In the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator
of a farm, in connection with the operation,
management, conservation, improvement or maintenance of
such farm and its tools and equipment, or in salvaging
timber or clearing land of brush and other debris left
by a hurricane, if the major part of such service is
performed on a farm;

 
(3) In connection with the production or harvesting of any
commodity defined as an agricultural commodity in
section 15(g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act, as
amended, 12 U.S.C. 1141J, or in connection with the
ginning of cotton, or agricultural composting as
defined in Title 17, section 2805 or in connection with
the operation or maintenance of ditches, canals,
reservoirs or waterways, not owned or operated for
profit, used exclusively for supplying and storing
water for farming purposes;

 
(4) In the employ of the operator of a farm, in handling,
planting, drying, packing, packaging, processing, freezing,
grading, storing or delivering to storage or to market or to a
carrier for transportation to market, in its unmanufactured
state, any agricultural or horticultural commodity; but only if
such operator produced more than 1/2 of the commodity with
respect to which such service is performed; in the employ of a
group of operators of farms, or a cooperative organization of
which such operators are members, in the performance of service
described in this subparagraph, but only if such operators
produced more than 1/2 of the commodity with respect to which
such service is performed. The provisions of this subparagraph
shall do not be deemed to be applicable apply with respect to
service performed in connection with commercial canning or
commercial freezing or in connection with any agricultural or
horticultural commodity after its delivery to a terminal market
for consumption; hatching or processing of poultry,
transportation of poultry; grading of eggs or packing of eggs,
transportation of eggs; the processing of any meat product or the
transportation of any meat product; or to any potato packing
business which that customarily operates during a regularly
recurring


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