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LABORER, VEGETABLE FARM

Specialty Definition: LABORER, VEGETABLE FARM

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Occupations

Plants, cultivates, and harvests vegetables, working as crewmember: Dumps seed into hopper of planter towed by tractor. Rides on planter and brushes debris from seed spouts that discharge seeds into plowed furrow. Plants roots and bulbs, using hoe or trowel. Covers plants with sheet or caps of treated cloth or paper to protect plants from weather. Weeds and thins blocks of plants, using hoe or spoon-shaped tool. Transplants seedlings, using hand transplanter or by placing seedlings in rotating planting wheel while riding on power-drawn transplanter. Sets bean poles and strings them with wire or twine. Closes and ties leaves over heads of cauliflower and other cabbage and cabbagelike plants. Picks, cuts, pulls, or lifts crops to harvest them. Ties vegetables in bunches and removes tops from root crops. Pitches vine crops into viner (pea or bean shelling machine), using pitchfork or electric fork and boom, and cleans up spilled vines. May participate in irrigation activities. May be identified with work assigned, such as blocking, cutting, and stringing, or with crop raised, such as asparagus, beans, and celery. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LABORER, VEGETABLE FARM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 42 4F 52 45 52 2C      56 45 47 45 54 41 42 4C 45      46 41 52 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01000010 01001111 01010010 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01010110 01000101 01000111 01000101 01010100 01000001 01000010 01001100 01000101 00100000 01000110 01000001 01010010 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#66 &#79 &#82 &#69 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#86 &#69 &#71 &#69 &#84 &#65 &#66 &#76 &#69 &#32 &#70 &#65 &#82 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0042 004F 0052 0045 0052 002C      0056 0045 0047 0045 0054 0041 0042 004C 0045      0046 0041 0052 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46353649523952142563941395435364639240355247

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