Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break Drought's brazen back! People would again have water to wash their dusty faces. Cattle would again have water to drink. In some places rain would save the remainder of the corn crop. If it kept up, forage crops could be sown in ruined grain fields to help feed cattle during the winter. If it kept up still longer, it might replenish the subsoil moisture enough to make possible a good winter wheat crop next year...
Said Senator Thomas Gore, who believes the best way to start real inflation is to repeal all laws against counterfeiting: "I have more faith in turnip patches. They provide feed for animals and food for people...
...horse with bad manners and an appetite so gluttonous that he had to be muzzled to prevent him from gobbling sticks and bits of wire. Cavalcade is smaller (15 hands, 3 in., 1,000 lb.), eats more moderately (nine quarts of rolled oats or wet feed daily, with a mixture of timothy and clover for roughage; four quarts of sliced carrots...
...beef. Fat corn-fed steers have risen in the past fortnight from a $8.50 per cwt. to $9.50. Top price for hogs last week was $5.60, best level in three years. Meanwhile, however, the stock yards have been overrun with gaunt, stumbling beasts which stricken farmers can no longer feed, and this is why the price of ordinary meat-on-the-hoof has gained little. Government purchases of relief cattle may run as high as 12,000,000 head of livestock (including sheep and angora goats), more than one-half of which will be slaughtered. Such depletion of breeding stock...
...previous acreage control measures, we were immediately able to plant feed crops . . . and purchase . . . the herds of drought-stricken cattle. . . . Since there are 7,000,000 head of cattle in the country in excess of the number needed to maintain an adequate meat and milk supply, even this disaster is not unmanageable...