mangel

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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

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)

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

I must just take a look at my mangel, and my orchard, which you must know is my piggery.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

The mangel wurzel produces a larger crop than the Swedish turnip.

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