Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A demonstration farm, experimental farm or model farm, is a farm which is used primarily to research or demonstrate various agricultural techniques, with any economic gains being an added bonus. Demonstration farms are often owned and operated by educational institution or government ministries.
In order to demonstrate that the most unprepossessing territory on Long Island could be utilized as a truck farm, or market garden, one of the most desolate, burned-over pieces of land on the North Shore was purchased, after consultation with many old residents and expert growers, who unanimously agreed that the worst piece was a little over a mile west of Wading River station, and contained ...
Some pizza farms are demonstration farms that educate visitors about agriculture by growing pizza ingredients, sometimes on a circular piece of land partitioned into plots shaped like pizza slices. The farm often grows ingredients that can be used in pizza, such as wheat for the crust , tomatoes and herbs for the sauce , pork for pepperoni ...
Between 1910 and 1920 Miner purchased over 5,000 acres of land. At peak size the farm had 4,000 acres of tillable land, 2,000 acres of pasture and 6,000 acres of woodland. Fruits, vegetables, beef and dairy cattle, mules, sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, pheasants and brook trout were raised on the farm. In addition to the 800 regularly employed ...
The demonstration farm was vacated in the early 1940s after the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was shut down. [1] When the nearby road between Amargosa Valley and Death Valley Junction was paved in the late 1940s, the T&T Ranch was used to accommodate some of the construction workers.
The first indication of a problem came before the main event in Westminster at a pre-protest rally at a farm in Mill Hill. ... The first protest was not meant to be a demonstration, with the NFU ...
The Batchelor Demonstration Farm, at Batchelor, Northern Territory, was established in 1911 and its creation led to the establishment of the town. [1] It closed in 1919 but was resumed by the Commonwealth Government for defence purposes in 1941 when the Batchelor Airfield officially became a RAAF base. [2] The traditional owners of the land are ...
Discover the best free online games at AOL.com - Play board, card, casino, puzzle and many more online games while chatting with others in real-time.