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 Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
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
Ten pounds of mangel beets per 100 hens or 1 square inch of well-sprouted oats per bird will supply needed green food during the winter.
From A Living from the Land by William B. Duryee
"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
But, besides this use of the mangel wurzel, there is another, with regard to pigs at least, of very great importance.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett
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