If I'd consented, you'd have gone down to the river and scraped along on poor farms for the rest of your lives.
They'll never put me in the poor farm so long as I support myself.
Yet the premium obviously ought to be given for the good management of a poor farm.
Compare instead the county institution of the poor farm.
Yam is an attractive crop in poor farms with limited resources.
In 1932, the city had a poor farm for the indigent.
I was raised on a small and very poor farm.
But poorer farms might have found themselves with not even enough hay to feed all their animals through the winter.
But poor farms had room for only a few cows, perhaps just a single one.
There they raised nine children, including Steinbeck's mother, on a poor farm.