- farm laborer
- One employed upon a farm in raising and harvesting crops, doing general farm work, or employed in a special line of farm work, such as production of milk for distribution over a retail milk route. 3 Am J2d Agri § 3. One employed in the cultivation of the soil and its fruits or in such processes or steps as are necessary and incident to the raising, harvesting, and processing of the harvested products for consumption or marketing. Anno: 53 ALR2d 406; 48 Am J1st Soc Sec § 30. One employed by a farmer to perform work which ordinarily is incidental to farming. 58 Am J1st Workm Comp § 97. For the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act, one employed in any one of the following enterprises: farming in all its branches, including, among other things, the cultivation and tillage of the soil; dairying; the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of agricultural or horticultural commodities; the raising of livestock or poultry, etc. 31 Am J Rev ed Lab § 685. A man is not a farm laborer when in the employ of a man who travels about from farm to farm with a corn-husking machine, engaged in the business of husking corn for a stated compensation. Roush v Heffelbower, 225 Mich 664, 196 NW 185, 35 ALR 196, 198, 199.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.