fodder
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From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
First developed in the 18th Century as a high-yield fodder crop.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Despite developing the machine with scientists, Ernetti’s claims of what he saw — including Christ’s crucifixion — quickly became sensationalized fodder, with some believing in Ernetti’s discovery and others dismissing it as a hoax.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
French corn production in particular is seen falling 35 percent this year, while overall fodder growth was a third below normal levels as of August 10, the officials said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
I don’t know why—I worked on circuses for nearly seven years, and if that isn’t fodder for conversation, I don’t know what is.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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It is preferable to feed meal admixed with cut fodders.
From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.
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
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
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 Mayne Reid
The rank, aqueous fodders grown on such soils are other causes, but these again are calculated to undermine the character of the nervous and sanguineous temperament and to superinduce the lymphatic.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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
When I've foddered the cattle and done my chores I'd be pleased to.
From Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott
They are, in fact, foddered exactly the same as cattle.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies
The young ones are well foddered, especially while they are still calves.
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams
There, when he had foddered the deep-voiced kine, he herded them huddled together into the byre, munching lotus and dewy marsh marigold; next brought he much wood, and set himself to the craft of fire-kindling.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
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 Henry David Thoreau
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
"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 William Salisbury
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
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