mangel
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The milk of cows fed on distillery wash, turnip, and mangel tops, coarse herbage, and other kinds of inferior food, is always of inferior quality.
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
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 Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
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
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
I can conjugate the modern verb "to wangle," And, if required, translate it into Greek; I can even tell a wurzel from a mangel; But I cannot tell a bubble from a squeak.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920 by Various
