DCHP-3

bush farm

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a farm in the bush country, often one that has much uncleared or waste land on it.

Quotations

1852
Instead of sinking all his means in buying a bush farm, he hired a very good farm in Cavan. . . .
1881
His man . . . most likely had went out to his "bush farm."
1957
At Dutch Lake lived . . . two reformed Vancouver newspaperwomen who, demented at the sight of a worthless bush farm, had made it over into British Columbia's happiest retreat.