mangel

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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.

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

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

It may be observed that direct experiments at Rothamsted confirm the view, arrived at by common experience, that roots, and especially mangel, have a favourable effect on the flow of milk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

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