ORIGIN OF FARM.
This word is derived from the Saxon fear mo or feorme, which signifies vietus, food or provision; as the tenants and country-people anciently paid their rents in food and other necessaries of life. Hence a farm was originally a place which supplied its owner or lord with provisions. The word forme is also French, and a farm is probably 7 so called from its being a firm or fixed possession of the land by one who labours on it.;
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 170, 30 April 1943, Page 6
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82ORIGIN OF FARM. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 170, 30 April 1943, Page 6
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