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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.- CH. 666 -AUG. 10, 1939 or December 31; and the term 'quarter of coverage' means a calendar quarter in which the individual has been paid not less than $50 in wages. When the number of quarters specified in paragraph (1) of this subsection is an odd number, for purposes of such paragraph such number shall be reduced by one. In any case where an individual has been paid in a calendar year $3,000 or more in wages, each quarter of such year following his first quarter of coverage shall be deemed a quarter of coverage, excepting any quarter in such year in which such individual dies or becomes entitled to a primary insurance benefit and any quarter succeeding such quarter in which he died or became so entitled. "(h) The term 'currently insured individual' means any individual with respect to whom it appears to the satisfaction of the Board that he has been paid wages of not less than $50 for each of not less than six of the twelve calendar quarters, immediately preceding the quarter in which he died. "(i) The term 'wife' means the wife of an individual who either (1) is the mother of such individual's son or daughter, or (2) was married to him prior to January 1,1939, or if later, prior to the date upon which he attained the age of sixty. "(j) The term 'widow' (except when used in section 202 (g)) means the surviving wife of an individual who either (1) is the mother of such individual's son or daughter, or (2) was married to him prior to the beginning of the twelfth month before the month in which he died. "(k) The term 'child' (except when used in section 202 (g)) means the child of an individual, and the stepchild of an individual by a marriage contracted prior to the date upon which he attained the age of sixty and prior to the beginning of the twelfth month before the month in which he died, and a child legally adopted by an individual prior to the date upon which he attained the age of sixty and prior to the beginning of the twelfth month before the month in which he died. '"(1) The term 'agricultural labor' includes all service performed- "(1) On a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising shear- ing, feeding, caring for, training, and mana.gement of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife. "(2) In the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator of a farm, in connection with the operation, management, conservation, improvement, or maintenance of such farm and its tools and equip- ment, or in salvaging timber or clearing land of brush and other debris left by a hurricane, if the major part of such service is per- formed on a farm. "(3) In connection with the production or harvesting of maple sirup or maple sugar or any commodity defined as an agricultural commodity in section 15 (g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act, as amended, or in connection with the raising or harvesting of mush- rooms, or in connection with the hatching of poultry, or in connec- tion with the ginning of cotton, or in connection with the operation or maintenance of ditches, canals, reservoirs, or waterways used exclu- sively for supplying and storing water for farming purposes. "(4) In handling, planting, drying, packing, packaging, process- ing, freezing, grading, storing, or elivering to storage or to market or to a carrier for transportation to market, any agricultural or horti- cultural commodity; but only if such service is performed as an inci- dent to ordinary farming operations or, in the case of fruits and vege- tables, as an incident to the preparation of such fruits or vegetables for 1377 "Quarter of cover- age." "Currently insured individual. " "Wife." "Widow." "Child." "Agricultural labor." 46 Stat. 1550. 12 U.S .. § 1141 (g).

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