Definition of Truck farm

1. Noun. A farm where vegetables are grown for market.

Exact synonyms: Truck Garden
Generic synonyms: Farm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Truck Farm

truced
truceless
truces
truchman
truchmans
truchmen
trucial
trucidation
trucidations
trucing
truck-driver
truck bed
truck dealer
truck driver
truck farm (current term)
truck farming
truck garden
truck gardens
truck in
truck out
truck stop
truck traffic
truckable
truckage
truckages
truckbed
truckbeds
trucked
trucker

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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