mangel

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Some feeders give young store pigs half-a-pint of peas, mixed with pulped mangel, and the quantum of peas is gradually increased to one pint per diem.

From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

Farms are abandoned—or bought by rich men who make park lands and lawns o' the fields where the potato and the mangel wurzel, the corn and the barley, grew yesteryear.

From Between You and Me by Lauder, Harry, Sir

There are big coarse members of the beet and cabbage families called the mangel wurzel and ruta baga.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

The mangel wurzel was introduced about 1780-5 by Parkyns, and prickly comfrey in 1811.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)

Salt has been found in some districts to have a very good effect on the mangel crop, and potash is often found to amply repay application.

From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton