fodder
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And, just incidentally, are all high-profile investigations of the future destined to be fodder for the kind of intrusive online “detectives” who were drawn to the city of Moscow like flies to an abattoir?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The article became fodder for questions Wednesday before the Fever’s 123-88 victory against the Connecticut Sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Productivity has not been high enough to offset this decline, he said, notably because of rising fodder prices, workforce shortage and higher wage costs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
James Scobie KC, representing Lavrynovych, said he was a "complete and utter foot soldier" and "fodder for this type of infiltration".
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Laila did her best not to look at him, not to give these women any more gossip fodder than they already had.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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The same principle applies in a lesser degree to the use of certain green fodders that are more suitable for feed, such as rape, green rye, or even silage.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George
Ever fresh Novelgarbage, as of old, fodders the Circulating Libraries.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
The Chondrosium foeneum is one of the finest fodders in the world for the food of cattle, almost equal to unthrashed oats.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
The grain goes futher when he fodders in that air way.
From Little Wolf A Tale of the Western Frontier by Cornelius, M. A.
When good leguminous fodders are fed, from 33 to 50 per cent. less grain will suffice than would be called for when non-leguminous fodders only are fed.
From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.
The horses were foddered at the other extremity, and a fire burned in the middle of the floor, the smoke escaping by the doors.
From Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by Paton, Andrew Archibald
The cow was foddered with after-math, hay, and potatoes; the horse with the same hay and oats.
So I went out again and foddered and watered the mare, for Peter is sometimes a sad fatch and will not always give a horse what is worth its trouble in the eating.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
Before offering to sleep, Dell collected all the articles that were to make up the pack, foddered the horses, set the alarm forward an hour, and sought his blankets for a short rest.
From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Adams, Andy
I have not taken yet my first lesson in agriculture, except that I went to see our cows foddered, yesterday afternoon.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
"Yes, the farmer takes lots of comfort, walking on the road, foddering cattle, cutting wood."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
Every judicious farmer who depends on turnips for foddering his stock in the winter, will do well to guard against the loss sometimes occasioned by the failure of his Turnips from frost and wet.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William
We gave the sheep a foddering of hay and then got the flock outdoors.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
A man leading a horse to water, or foddering his cattle from a stack in a snow-covered field, or following his plough, is always pleasing.
From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John
The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.
From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David
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