Sentence examples for doing farm labor from inspiring English sources
Tim spent some time last fall doing farm labor.
One minute he was doing farm labor and the next minute they are saying, 'You are going home.' Just like everyone else, he was surprised".
Koch emphasized rugged pursuits, taking his sons big-game hunting in Africa, and requiring them to do farm labor at the family ranch.
Margaret began playing tennis at 9 after the family moved to Spokane, Wash., her father having been unable to continue to do farm labor for health reasons.
Born in Seattle on Feb. 25 , 1930 Delford Michael Smith was adopted from an orphanage when he was 2. Raised by an ailing woman who cleaned houses and worked in a candy factory, Smith delivered newspapers, sold lumps of coal he scrounged off railroad tracks and did farm labor in the summer.
Percy Sledge was born Nov. 25, 1940, in Leighton, Ala., growing up in a rural farming community where he helped his parents doing farm chores, his labors motivating him early on to find a less strenuous way to make a living.
Starting in the mid-19th century, and continuing for 75 years, the trains shipped as many as 200,000 city children to do farm and domestic labor out west.
Two years after her father's sudden death (when she was seventeen), she left home to do migrant farm labor in Michigan and Indiana.
Not only were rural residents too well known in their communities to disappear, as might their urban counterparts, but also men who did heavy farm labor would find it difficult to convince a doctor that they were physically unfit to serve.
Sons and daughters in farm families see no reason to do back‐breaking farm labor for an average annual income of $150 for each family member when they can earn two and three times that much at lighter labor in factories and enjoy the bright lights of a big city.
