Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Market-gardening on a large scale, especially for distant markets; trucking.
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Examples
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There had been, on Professor Marshall's part, belligerent, vociferous talk about "freedom of speech," and on Mrs. Marshall's a quiet estimate that, with her early training on a Vermont farm, and with the high state of cultivation under which she had brought their five acres, they could successfully go into the truck-farming business like their neighbors.
The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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East, where truck-farming and chicken-raising can be made very remuneratively, Italians have established themselves on the small farms abandoned by the children of Americans who go to the city.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The ten acres of the reservation offered an excellent opportunity for truck-farming, and the versatile head of the family could not avoid trying his luck in this branch of work.
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The ten acres of the reservation offered an excellent opportunity for truck-farming, and the versatile head of the family could not avoid trying his luck in this branch of work.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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The truck-farming of the South Atlantic region, the fruit growing of western Michigan, the butter factories of Wisconsin and
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The main crops are corn and cotton, with some small grains; but fishing and truck-farming are also among the common and profitable industries, and several thousand bushels of flax-seed are annually exported.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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Around the mining settlements and during the uncertain life of the mining settlements, truck-farming pays very well, but it could easily be overdone so that prices would fall below the point of any profit at all.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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Many of these lands lie on the rail roads leading to Norfolk and Petersburg and are favorably located for truck-farming.
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This market gardening, or "truck-farming," in these large operations, is a peculiar and remarkable branch of agriculture, which well deserves thorough examination, and more full report, than this slight notice.
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