- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who trains horses for riding, show, work, or racing. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds, exercises, grooms, and talks to horses to accustom them to human voice and contact.
* Talks to horses to calm and encourage them to follow lead, or standstill when hitched or groomed.
* Places tack or harness on horse to accustom horse to feel of equipment.
* Mounts and rides saddle horse to condition horse to respond to oral, spur, or rein command, according to knowledge of horse's temperament and riding technique.
* Hitches draft horse to wagon, sledge, or other horse drawn equipment and conditions horse to perform in single or multiple hitch, using rein and oral commands.
* Trains horses for show competition according to prescribed standards for gaits, form, manners, and performance, using knowledge of characteristics of different breeds and operating routines of horse shows.
* Retrains horses to break habits, such as kicking, bolting, and resisting bridling and grooming.
* Usually specializes in conditioning and developing horses of one breed only, or in training horses for one type of riding, driving, racing, or show activity.
* May train horses for racing, utilizing knowledge of training methods to plan training, according to peculiarities of each horse and instructs jockey on how to handle specific horse during race and be designated Racehorse Trainer.
* May train horses or other equines to carry pack loads and work as part of pack train.
* May arrange for mating of stallions and mares, and assist mares during foaling.
* May train horses as independent operator and advise owners on purchase of horses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who raises both crops and livestock. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines kinds and amounts of crops to be grown and livestock to be bred, according to market conditions, weather, and size and location of farm.
* Selects and purchases seed, fertilizer, farm machinery, livestock, and feed, and assumes responsibility for sale of crop and livestock products.
* Hires and directs workers engaged in planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops, such as corn, peas, potatoes, strawberries, apples, peanuts, and tobacco, and to raise livestock, such as cattle, sheep, swine, horses, and poultry.
* Performs various duties of farm workers, depending on size and nature of farm, including setting up and operating farm machinery.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives trucks and tractors and performs variety of animal and crop raising duties as directed on general farm. Respnsibilities include:
* Plows, harrows, and fertilizes soil, and cultivates, sprays, and harvests crops, using variety of tractor-drawn machinery.
* Cares for livestock and poultry, observing general condition and administering simple medications to animals and fowls.
* Hauls feed to livestock during grass shortage and winter months.
* Operates, repairs, and maintains farm implements and mechanical equipment, such as tractors, gang plows, ensilage cutters, hay balers, cottonpickers, and milking machines.
* Repairs farm buildings, fences, and other structures.
* May irrigate crops.
* May haul livestock and products to market.
* Usually works year-round and may oversee casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives trucks and tractors and performs variety of animal and crop raising duties as directed on general farm. Respnsibilities include:
* Plows, harrows, and fertilizes soil, and cultivates, sprays, and harvests crops, using variety of tractor-drawn machinery.
* Cares for livestock and poultry, observing general condition and administering simple medications to animals and fowls.
* Hauls feed to livestock during grass shortage and winter months.
* Operates, repairs, and maintains farm implements and mechanical equipment, such as tractors, gang plows, ensilage cutters, hay balers, cottonpickers, and milking machines.
* Repairs farm buildings, fences, and other structures.
* May irrigate crops.
* May haul livestock and products to market.
* Usually works year-round and may oversee casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs variety of manual, animal-and-crop-raising tasks on general farm under close supervision. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds and waters cattle, poultry, and pets.
* Cleans barns, stables, pens, and kennels, using rake, shovel, water, and other cleaning materials.
* Digs seedlings, such as tobacco plants, strawberries, tomatoes, and orchard trees, using hoe, and transplants them by hand.
* Shovels earth to clear irrigation ditches and opens sluice gates to irrigate crops.
* Cleans plows, combines, and tractors, using scraper and broom.
* Picks, cuts, or pulls fruits and vegetables to harvest crop.
* Stacks loose hay, using pitchfork, or pitches hay into automatic baling machine.
* Stacks bales of hay and bucks them onto wagon or truck, using handhook.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who classifies cotton according to grade, staple length, and character, employing knowledge of cotton fiber and standards for various grades as established by U.S.
* Department of Agriculture. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines cotton sample to detect variations in color; foreign matter, such as pieces of bolls, leaves, or twigs; undeveloped seeds, sand, and dust; and preparation defects, such as gin-cut fibers and neps.
* Pulls layer of fibers from cotton sample with fingers to form rectangular tuft, places tuft on black background, and estimates or measures staple length, using cotton-stapling rule.
* Determines character (strength, uniformity, and cohesive quality) of fibers by pulling sample tuft apart between fingers, observing effort expanded in breaking sample, fineness of fibers, and drag as fibers cling to each other.
* Classifies fibers according to standards for various grades.
* May examine fibers through microscope to determine maturity and spirality of fibers.
* Records grade on bale identification tag and bale number and grade on shipping, receiving, or sales sheet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who classifies cotton according to grade, staple length, and character, employing knowledge of cotton fiber and standards for various grades as established by U.S.
* Department of Agriculture. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines cotton sample to detect variations in color; foreign matter, such as pieces of bolls, leaves, or twigs; undeveloped seeds, sand, and dust; and preparation defects, such as gin-cut fibers and neps.
* Pulls layer of fibers from cotton sample with fingers to form rectangular tuft, places tuft on black background, and estimates or measures staple length, using cotton-stapling rule.
* Determines character (strength, uniformity, and cohesive quality) of fibers by pulling sample tuft apart between fingers, observing effort expanded in breaking sample, fineness of fibers, and drag as fibers cling to each other.
* Classifies fibers according to standards for various grades.
* May examine fibers through microscope to determine maturity and spirality of fibers.
* Records grade on bale identification tag and bale number and grade on shipping, receiving, or sales sheet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to assist cotton classer. Respnsibilities include:
* Records grades called out by cotton classer on sample classification certificates and related documents.
* Summarizes and tabulates classification results, using specified numeric symbols.
* Assembles classification certificates and other records for mailing to growers, government officials, and other designated recipients.
* Carries cotton samples to and from storage and grading areas.
* May assist in testing cotton samples.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends variety of machines, such as dryers, cleaners, gin stands, and linters, that dry, clean, and separate cotton lint from seed and waste material. Respnsibilities include:
* Slides hand into seed chutes and removes accumulations of seed.
* Observes saw ribs in gin stand and linter screens to detect clogging.
* Removes cotton manually or using ginstick.
* Opens gas supply valve and pushes alarm switch to warn workers that machinery is starting.
* Pushes switches to start separator, vacuum, and trash fans; seed augers; linters; cleaners; and other auxiliary equipment.
* Turns control knobs on automatic dryers to ignite fire and set drying temperature.
* Ascertains seed-handling instructions from seed tags, pulls ropes to open gates, allowing seeds to be deposited in hoppers according to instructions, and resets automatic seed-weighing counter.
* Pulls ropes to open suction gates and start suction that controls flow of cotton through equipment.
* Listens to sounds of running machinery, observes flow of seeds and cotton, feels cotton sample, and sniffs air to detect equipment malfunction and maladjustment and burning cotton.
* Stops machine and removes obstructions, adjusts dryer temperature, and regulates cotton feed to correct malfunctions, achieve optimum drying of cotton, and maintain maximum ginning capacity of machines.
* Closes suction gates after last bale of order has been ginned.
* Records seed weight and bale weight on report form.
* Periodically replaces worn and defective parts on machines.
* Lubricates motors, bearings, and other friction surfaces.
* May be identified with machines tended or with work performed, such as linting, cleaning, drying, and ginning.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that threshes and bales broomcorn straw. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts string or rubber band binding from sheaves of broomcorn straw, using knife, and feeds straw into threshing machine to remove seeds.
* Off bears straw from discharge end of threshing machine and drops straw into bucket to align straw.
* Hands bucket of aligned broomcorn straws to press feeder, broomcorn who places straws in compression chamber of hydraulic press.
* Closes compression chamber and starts hydraulic press to compress broomcorn straws into bale.
* Ties wire around bale and pushes bale from chamber.
Industry:Professional careers
