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Lusscroft Farm

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Rutgers UniversityUse mdy dates from May 2014Wantage Township, New Jersey

Lusscroft Farm is a historically significant dairy farming and scientific research facility located in Wantage Township in Sussex County, New Jersey that was established in 1914. It was first operated by James Turner, a stockbroker from Montclair, to promote scientific research in the dairy farming industry. In 1931, Turner donated the facility and land to the State of New Jersey and from 1931 to 1970 it was operated as an Agricultural Research Station by Rutgers University—New Jersey's land grant university.

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