Definition of "beefarm"

Beefarm Sites and Ranges, 25. […] Ask questions in next A.B.K. for a remedy for prickled blood. A number of beefarms in Victoria are suffering from it this year.

1915, The Australasian Beekeeper, Pender Bros., pages 84, 156

Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum. A bee-range license may be secured on payment of one halfpenny for every [a]cre of crown land within a mile of the beefarm; and all suitable timber, [e]ven on land held under a grazing lease or license, may, for the purpose of beefarms, be protected from destruction on any area.

1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917

Such a man is W. C. Greenleaf of Muir, Michigan. He runs a dairy and beefarm.

1928, Modern Beekeeping, page 215

Honey Yield at the Govt. Beefarm Nagrota 1936–42.

1943, Rural India, volume 6, page 254

These are popular in Scotland and the north and as the brood-boxes take 15 frames they are a useful large hive, but we shall not keep those. They were brought in from a Wiltshire beefarm which was taken over and they will be disposed of when convenient.

1947, South African Bee Journal, page 18

But, my object has always been to own a big commercial beefarm and to become a large scale honey-producer.

1949, Proceedings, All India Bee-keepers' Association, page 11

[…] and those who want to stay to work for a few months on a beefarm abroad. (Please state which country you are interested in.)

1976, Scottish Beekeeper, Scottish Beekeepers' Association, Practical Experience and Help on Beefarms Through an International Youth Exchange Programme / by kare bjornstol, page 47

The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return

1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, page 27

But shortly after the pair had moved into the small cottage and set up the beefarm, a woman with eyes as blue as Wedgwood - and spry for an older woman - joined them.

2013 July 29, Christopher Redmond, “The Present”, in Sherlock Holmes and the Lufton Lady, MX Publishing, Limited