mangel

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There are big coarse members of the beet and cabbage families called the mangel wurzel and ruta baga.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

Although the mangel is one of the most nutritious articles of food which can be given to cattle, yet it is stated on the best authority that sheep do not thrive upon it.

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

But mix the potatoes with juice of mangel wurzel, and they make very good food for hogs of all ages.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William

The mangel wurzel was introduced about 1780-5 by Parkyns, and prickly comfrey in 1811.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)