When an employee is engaged in direct farming operations included in
the primary definition of ``agriculture,'' the purpose of the employer
in performing the operations is immaterial. For example, where an
employer owns a factory and a farm and operates the farm only for
experimental purposes in connection with the factory, those employees
who devote all their time during a particular workweek to the direct
farming operations, such as the growing and harvesting of agricultural
commodities, are considered as employed in agriculture. It is also
immaterial whether the agricultural or horticultural commodities are
grown in enclosed houses, as in greenhouses or mushroom cellars, or in
an open field. Similarly, the mere fact that production takes place in a
city or on industrial premises, such as in hatcheries, rather than in
the country or on premises possessing the normal characteristics of a
farm makes no difference (see Jordan v. Stark Brothers Nurseries, 45 F.
Supp. 769; Miller Hatcheries v. Boyer, 131 F. 2d 283; Damutz v.
Pinchbeck, 158 F. 2d 882).
Farming in All Its Branches
