Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The maize-plant as used for feeding stock; specifically, the whole maize-plant, including the ears, field-cured and used for feeding cattle.
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Examples
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In the autumn, Major-General Mitchell required forty tons of corn-fodder and seventy-eight thousand pounds of corn in the ear, for army-forage.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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In the rear, a space of a quarter of an acre, inclosed by a huge worm-fence, was evidently the vegetable patch, at one corner of which a small stable, roofed and buttressed with corn-fodder, leaned against the hill.
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The woods are at my back, the level meadow and wide fields of corn-fodder stretch away in front of me to a flaming ridge of oak and hickory.
The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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If found to be drying out, further evaporation may be checked by covering the heaps with damp straw or corn-fodder.
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By frequent stirring the rest of the corn-fodder was soon dried again, and was stacked like the rest.
Driven Back to Eden Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Another good crop to raise on a stock farm is corn-fodder.
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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If corn-fodder is a renovating crop, so is the ordinary corn-crop, also, provided it is consumed on the farm.
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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“Because,” said Charley, “the ton of straw does not contain as much valuable plant-food as the ton of corn-fodder, nor the ton of corn-fodder as much as the ton of clover-hay.”
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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If we introduced lucern, Italian rye-grass, corn-fodder, and mangel-wurzel into the rotation, we should need still richer land to produce a maximum growth of these crops.
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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It is worth more because the ton of corn-fodder contains a greater quantity of valuable plant-food than the ton of straw.
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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