mangel
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Theoretically an excessive development of the leaves of the mangel may be inimical to the growth of the root.
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
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 Ellen Eddy Shaw
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
Let nothing induce the growers," says Mr. Paget, in a paper on the cultivation of the mangel, "to strip the leaves from the plant before taking up the root.
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
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
