fodder
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The posts look like everyday TikTok or Instagram fodder, not paid ads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
“I mean, the whole world of the MFA felt like fodder for horror.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Claiming the movie’s satirical predictions have “come true” has been regular fodder for clickbait articles, egged on by its creator and stars.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
It has demanded a recovery plan to include fodder and subsidy support for farmers.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
But by leapfrogging the United States into space, the Russians had turned even local racial policy into fodder for the international conflict.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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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.
There seems to be, however, much difference in the dry fodders from different varieties of sorghum.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
Not infrequently, such fodders as these produce so strong a taint in milk as to render it useless for human use.
From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell
The grain goes futher when he fodders in that air way.
From Little Wolf A Tale of the Western Frontier by M. A. Cornelius
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
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 Sir Hall Caine
The cows came briskly to the rack in which he foddered them in pleasant weather, and when he scratched them between the horns they turned their mild, Juno-like eyes upon him with undisguised affection.
From He Fell in Love with His Wife by Edward Payson Roe
They are, in fact, foddered exactly the same as cattle.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies
His breeches were open at the knees; his polar legs were without stockings; but his old brogues were foddered, as it is called, with a wisp of straw, to keep his feet warm.
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
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
We gave the sheep a foddering of hay and then got the flock outdoors.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
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 William Salisbury
The hay is pitched into this holder in fair weather, enough for a day’s foddering at a time, and is taken from it by the fork and placed in the racks.
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
In the steady cold weather of the North, the shepherd readily learns to determine about how much hay will be consumed before the next foddering time.
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
The foddering them from the stack in the field in winter also fell to the lot of the older members of the family.
From My Boyhood by John Burroughs
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