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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Murph said, "Take a look at a field of any vegetable, being picked by 
Mexicans.
Look at the Mexicans.
Now, look around for a toilet.
There it is, 2500' away."

   After California banned the use of short hoes...............For those of 
you who are not familiar with the subject, the weeds in vegetable fields are 
often (usually?) removed by hand, with a hoe.  When using a long hoe, it is 
easy to slip and cut off the vegetable plant along with the weed.  So 
growers cut most of the handle off the hoes thereby forcing the person 
wielding the hoe to stoop down close to his work thereby cutting off fewer 
plants.
   Anyway, after California banned the use of short hoes, I began to see 
berms along side of fields where I hadn't seen berms before.  Curious, I 
climbed a few only to observe that the use of short hoes was still being 
practiced.  Oh yes, and by the way, no toilets.

Jim Fruth
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