noun
definition
The area around a farm, excluding the fields.
Examples of farmyard in a Sentence
The approach is down an attractive farm lane which leads into the old farmyard with plenty of parking space.
Hendre is a Grade 2* listed Victorian farmyard located between the sea and the mountains on the beautiful North Wales coast.
The farmyard, with its welsh longhouse, is central to the reserve.
We 've got a farmyard puzzle to do next with some very silly things on it including a rhino !
Bald Eagle - I went a bit overboard with the farmyard noises on this, but I liked the way Winston hit the anvil.
Outside there is ample car parking space which formed part of the original farmyard.
Within the cottage, there is an exhibition of his life and works in the same farmyard setting in which he was raised.
The local community accepted traditional farmyard smells but we've never suffered anything like the revolting reek we regularly suffer now.
We've got a farmyard puzzle to do next with some very silly things on it including a rhino!
Admiring the long, plumy, swishy tails of other farmyard animals, he decides to straighten his own.
The average results show that, under all conditions of manuring - excepting with farmyard manure - the produce was less over the later than over the earlier periods of the experiments, an effect partly due to the seasons.
Our holiday homes have been carefully converted from the granite barns that once formed an old Cornish farmyard.
Infants welcome however, no children under five due to proximity of working farmyard.
In autumn you can spread farmyard manure which can be lightly worked into the soil later, in spring.
Dig a large hole and fork the base incorporating large amounts of organic mater such as garden compost, farmyard or stable manure.
All poultry producers must take extra care to combat raiders who are quick to punish poor farmyard security, says the CLA.
Of the twenty plots into which this land is divided, two were left without manure from the outset, two received ordinary farmyard manure for a series of years, whilst the remainder each received a different description of artificial or chemical manure, the same being, except in special cases, applied year after year on the same plot.
The species and varieties of mammals and birds that have a commercial value as farmyard stock or as pets, are for the most part easy to keep, are attractive to the public and may be a source of profit.
At the end it appears to enter a farmyard.
The Oast is peacefully situated overlooking the farmyard at the end of a long private farm lane.
Part of a working farm, it is attached to the main farmhouse and fronts the cobbled farmyard.
The dining area looks out across the former farmyard with a view down the valley.
Pottery Barn Kids offers storage units for baby paraphernalia, as well as changing tables and adorable little décor touches such as a farmyard mobile, silver keepsake frames and wall letters.
In one case, indeed, the average produce by mixed minerals and nitrogenous manure was more than that by the annual application of farmyard manure; and in seven out of the ten cases in which such mixtures were used the average yield per acre was from over two to over eight bushels more than the average yield of the United Kingdom (assuming this to be about twenty-eight bushels of 60 lb per bushel) under ordinary rotation.
Amongst the field experiments there is, perhaps, not one of more universal interest than that in which wheat was grown for fifty-seven years in succession, (a) without manure, (b) with farmyard manure and (c) with various artificial manures.
Gypsum, bone-dust, superphosphate of lime and nitrate of soda may also be used, and wood ashes are advantageous if the soil contains much vegetable matter; but the best results are usually obtained when farmyard manure is supplemented by artificials, not by using artificials alone.
In the case of plants the method of procedure was to grow some of the most important crops of rotation, each separately year after year, for many years in succession on the same land, (a) without manure, (b) with farmyard manure and (c) with a great variety of chemical manures; the same description of manure being, as a rule, applied year after year on the same plot.