mangel
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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 Sir Harry Lauder
Grow a large stock of beet by all means - either a mangel or a tankard.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
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 John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
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 Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
"I'm afraid, my dear young lady, I know very little of agricultural matters; in fact I don't know the difference between a mangel and a wurzel."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 by Various
