poor farm

A madhouse is the place for the man who wants to live ou'doors in the winter time; the poor-farm is too good for him.

You see,” he explained, “all this I did in my mind, for all the time I was a hostage in the poor-farm of broken men.

I learned just that when I was a rat among the mangy rats of the poor-farm.

"Maw Hoover was always calling me lazy, and saying she'd send me to the poor-farm," said Bessie.