But there was a home-farm attached to the place, which also now belonged to Lady ❋ Unknown (2005)
The home-farm buildings could be seen, but not the Grange, for, situate on the lowly level dear to ancestors, it was wrapped from the sight in trees. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“The larger and better part of the estates, including this house and grounds, and the home-farm.” ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
He paid over to his father the rents from Folking, but he had the house and home-farm for nothing. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Preference for one with home-farm immediately adjacent. ❋ Various (N/A)
Randal continued to make himself thus agreeable, until the Squire, persuaded that his young kinsman was a first-rate agriculturist, insisted upon carrying him off to the home-farm, and Harry turned towards the house to order Randal's room to be got ready: "For," said ❋ Various (N/A)
So I tripped down the back staircase and away to the stables with a bit of sugar for Brilliant, who had arrived safely by the train in company with White Stockings, and on through the kitchen-garden and the home-farm up to the free, fresh, breezy down. ❋ G. J. Whyte-Melville (N/A)
I was only a girl of ten when my father and his servants had a skirmish with a party of them, near our home-farm -- so near, indeed, that some of the windows of the house were broken by the bullets, and three of the Highland raiders were killed. ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)
He has improved his outlying lands of Scotland and Ireland, ransacked the battle-fields of Europe for bone-dust and the isles of the Pacific for guano, and imported enough to fertilize four millions of acres, and, not content with the produce of his home-farm, imports the present year more than four millions of tons of grain and corn to feed nineteen millions of his people. ❋ Various (N/A)
Currywongoan, at Greenmount, and at the home-farm at Dowris. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)
The "manor" consisted of the "demesne," which was the lord's home-farm, attached to his dwelling, and the villagers 'land, which was held by the villeins for their own use, on the condition of the cultivation of their lord's ground. ❋ F. J. Widgery (N/A)
He afterwards returned, bringing with him a Portuguese wife, and settled as shepherd on the home-farm of Ayton Castle. ❋ Cairns, John (1903)
Starting at six o'clock in the morning, accompanied by the faithful collie “Cheviot,” he made a round of all the grass-parks on the home-farm, beginning down near the sea and thence working his way round to a point considerably higher up than the mansion-house. ❋ Cairns, John (1903)
From Cockburnspath another removal was made in the following year to Dunglass Mill; and at last, in 1831, the much travelled family, now increased to eight, found rest in a house within the Dunglass grounds, after the father had received the appointment of shepherd on the home-farm, which he held during the rest of his life. ❋ Cairns, John (1903)
The estate - management, home-farm, woods, tenancies, were given up to her at the end of the fifth year, just before Ingram sailed for West Africa on a shooting expedition. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
Col. Lloyd's estate comprised twenty-seven thousand acres, and the home-farm seven thousand. ❋ Unknown (1892)
He was the youngest son of his father, a poor parson at the other end of the county, and had arrived at Talbothays Dairy as a six months 'pupil, after going the round of some other farms, his object being to acquire a practical skill in the various processes of farming, with a view either to the Colonies, or the tenure of a home-farm, as circumstances might decide. ❋ Unknown (1891)
Iles has taken the man on as carter at the home-farm, and given the eldest boy a job with the woodmen. ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)
In addition to the cultivation of the home-farm of 100 acres, the increased amount of stock makes it necessary to rent an adjacent pasture of 80 acres, the property of two of our teachers. ❋ Booker T. Washington (1885)
After the mowers, all the workers employed on the home-farm, men, women, and boys, entered the field to turn the swathes, which in a few hours were dried by the burning sun. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)
