Word: fodder
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Stores of fodder blazed up in unspontaneous combustion. German supply trains met strange accidents. German columns fell into ambush. Temporary German bridges collapsed. Serious fighting broke out in many places hundreds of miles to the German rear...
This Republic was intended by the Germans to be not much more than a commissary for herself and Austria. The Ukrainians undertook to supply 1,000,000 tons of grain, 46,000 tons of meat, 400,000,000 eggs, many horses, much coal, lard, manganese, fodder, sugar. The German Commander in the East, Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn, settled down to gather in the loot...
...developed that the enthusiastic negotiators had grossly overestimated the produce of the Ukraine. By the end of the occupation the Germans had got out only one-fifth of the scheduled exports. They got only 9,293 wagonloads of grain, 4,567 wagonloads of minerals and 23,195 wagonloads of fodder, sugar, cattle, eggs and other foodstuffs...
...unobtainable by private motorists during the month of February, that tea rations would be cut onefourth, that wheat reserves would last barely until the next harvest, that private coal consumption would be reduced to half a ton per home per month, that cattle would have to be slaughtered unless fodder formerly imported could be grown at home...
North and South American prickly pears, members of the cactus family, were taken to Australia in the 19th Century, planted for hedges and as a source of fodder. By 1925 they threatened to crowd out native vegetation on 30,000,000 acres of land, and on 30,000,000 more acres the pears had completely won, standing in a dense, solid growth two to five feet thick. The cost of fighting them with chemicals, by digging or plowing, stacking and burning, would have been more than the land was worth. So, year after year, more land was abandoned, more homesteads...