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

But mix the potatoes with juice of mangel wurzel, and they make very good food for hogs of all ages.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William

Ten pounds of mangel beets per 100 hens or 1 square inch of well-sprouted oats per bird will supply needed green food during the winter.

From A Living from the Land by Duryee, William B.

Strange, perhaps Oliver Cromwell is now a mangel wurzel, and poor King Charles the First an apple tree!

From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

It is smaller than the mangel wurzel, and more compact, and appears in its texture to be more like the Swedish turnip.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.