mangel
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Does it harm the mangel wurzels if their tops ore cut off once a month?
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
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
Let nothing induce the growers," says Mr. Paget, in a paper on the cultivation of the mangel, "to strip the leaves from the plant before taking up the root.
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
Grow a large stock of beet by all means - either a mangel or a tankard.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
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