fodder
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These clips live on as fodder for collective swooning and fan-made montages.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
Over the 250 years since America’s birth, there have been amber waves of great comic material, veritable fruited plains of satirical fodder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
They were concealed in the fodder house, not far away from the cabin where Old Rit and Ben now lived.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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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.
Dode only smiles at his deep cogitations, as he weeds the garden-beds, or fodders the stock.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
This same principle applies in lesser degree to many green fodders that are more suitable as feed for animals, as silage, green rye, rape, etc.
From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell
That there is in the State an enormous area of land which is eminently adaptable to the growing of fodders necessary for successful dairying has been amply demonstrated.
From Australia, The Dairy Country by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
Only feed which is of good quality and only grain and coarse fodders which are free from dirt and mould should be used.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings
That horses foddered on Lingborough hay would have thrice the strength of others, and that sheep who cropped Lingborough pastures would grow three times as fat.
From Tales from Many Sources Vol. V by Various
Have any men come home to the young women, Thinking old women do not need to hear, That you can play at being a bower-maid In a long gown although no beasts are foddered?
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley
The fruit is also valuable for provender, as animals foddered with it speedily get quite fat, while its wood, growing with great rapidity, is in much request for fuel.
Cows have to be milked as well as foddered, and the milk when obtained gives employment to many hands in the various processes it goes through.
From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies
At 2 p.m., or thereabouts, they are foddered again, and at 4 p.m. receive the same food as at the morning meal.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
He knew nothing about foddering a vessel’s bottom, much less how to fodder it with the carcase of one of his fellow-creatures.
From Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat
When foddering, to cheer the Poor herd in the stall— While each creature is moaning, And sickening in thrall.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Tommy Eye, teamster, stumbling towards the hovel for the early foddering, came upon him, and stopped and stared in utter amazement.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
At this time, although no snow may have fallen, it is best to give the sheep a light, daily foddering of bright hay, and a few oats in the bundle.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings
He came from foddering the cattle in the barn, and from the field, where he had been ploughing, until the depth of the snow rendered it impossible to draw a furrow.
From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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