mangel

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

I must just take a look at my mangel, and my orchard, which you must know is my piggery.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

And, as soon as a portion of the land can be made rich enough, he will grow more or less mangel wurzels, sugar beets, turnips, and other root crops.

From Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject by Joseph Harris

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

Of the different varieties of the mangel the long yellow appears to be the most nutritious, and the long red the least so.

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