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Definition of Truck farm
1. Noun. A farm where vegetables are grown for market.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truck Farm
Literary usage of Truck farm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Review of Professor Sumner's Speech Before the Tariff Commission by George Basil Dixwell (1882)
"... and that the " truck farm argument " is sufficiently justified by the authorities
I have named, by all sound economic reasoning, and by common sense. ..."
2. Business Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Robert Marshall Brown, Lenox E. Chase, Frank Ernest Williams (1922)
"The table shows that the average Camden truck farm is little more than half ...
I suggests that it is more profitable to run a truck farm near a great city ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"The chief difference between potatoes as a field crop and a market-garden or
truck-farm crop is that in the former case they are grown in rotation with ..."
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