mangel
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"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
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
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
Further, the Rothamsted experiments have shown that a higher percentage of butter-fat, of other solids, and of total solids, was obtained with mangel than with silage as the succulent food.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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
