county farm
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of county farm
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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This year, with county farm income up by an estimated 7%, Livingston farmers seem to be standing even more firmly behind the flexible support policies of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson.
From Time Magazine Archive
State Farm's early offices were in a back room of the county farm bureau building.
From Time Magazine Archive
It led by a good margin, I was told, the fifty-five New York county farm bureaus.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
Her own were grown, and desiring to make a home for some homeless child, she went to the county farm, where there were several, in search of one.
From Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer by S. B. (Solomon Benjamin) Shaw
And Ralph gave a rapid description of the county farm waif.
From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Allen Chapman
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