mangel
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We had him from the work'us when he was seven, to chop mangel wurzel, and here he's been ever since, nigh twelve year.
From The Last Galley Impressions and Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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 Charles Morton Aikman
The mangel wurzel was introduced about 1780-5 by Parkyns, and prickly comfrey in 1811.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
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 Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
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