Truck Farming

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. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)

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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

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. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The truck-farming of the South Atlantic region, the fruit growing of western Michigan, the butter factories of Wisconsin and ❋ Unknown (1901)

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. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)

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. ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)

Many of these lands lie on the rail roads leading to Norfolk and Petersburg and are favorably located for truck-farming. ❋ North Carolina Land Co. (1869)

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. ❋ Unknown (1861)

They grow VEGETABLES on a VEGETABLE farm, FRUIT on a FRUIT farm, TREES on a [TREE farm], and MILK AND COWS on a [DAIRY farm], so what do they grow on a TRUCK FARM? Why, TRUCKS, naturally! (Well, duhhh...) And I'll bet they even have separate pickup-truck seed-packets for Chevys, Dodges, Fords, GMCs, etc., and then individual [semi-trailer] seeds for Kenworths, Macks, Whites, Freightliners, Peterbilts, etc. Probably the trucks all start out green as they're maturing, and then they eventually"ripen" into different paint-colors when they're ready to harvest. :P ❋ QuacksO (2018)

You could here that [old] farm truck [from a] [mile] away. ❋ Jared L. S. (2008)

[Tyler]’s [truck] is [not a] farm truck ❋ Not.a.farmtruck (2019)