mangel

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If you can get a cross which gives you more tonnage than a mangel and a higher nutritive content you would have something better to grow.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

"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

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

Three-fourths of the fields were meadow or pasture, or in mangel or turnips. 

From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu

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)