To guard against this danger, perhaps the best way would be to give pulped mangels and turnips mixed with cut straw; a mixture which could not easily be bolted.
Straw, turnips, and mangels form the bone and sinew of the animals, and enable them to carry on the vital operations which are essential to their existence.
One questio vexata of the many which at present occupy the attention of the agricultural world is, whether or not the leaves of mangels may be removed with advantage during the latter part of the development of the plants.
A little salt should invariably be given, more especially if mangels (which are rich in salt) do not enter into the animals' dietary.
Prolonged drought in spring and early summer not unfrequently renders the hay crop a scanty one; while autumn and winter frosts change the nutriment of the mangels and turnips into decaying and unwholesome matter.
Boiled turnips and mangels are often given in winter; but they are not sufficiently nutritious to constitute a substantial portion of the animal's diet.
In 1877,” said the Deacon, “you had potatoes on the land where you grew mangels the previous year, and had the best crop in the neighborhood.
Mangels and manure are both composed of the same elements.
The land where I grow mangels gets about this dose every year.
I use all the wood ashes I can get, on my mangels as a duster, and consider their value greater than the burners do who sell them to me for 15 cts.
A barley crop seeded with clover would be better, especially if the mangels were heavily manured.
In fact, mangelsmake good manure, and good manure makes good mangels.
Owing to poor seed, the mangels failed on about three acres, and we plowed up the land and drilled in corn for fodder, in rows 2½ feet apart, and at the rate of over three bushels of seed per acre.
There is one thing in relation to my mangels of 1876 which has escaped the Deacon.
The fine I use for dusting the mangels after they have been singled out, and the lumps, if any, are used to warm up the red peppers.
Mangels are probably more closely estimated, as these valuable roots are carted and stored for subsequent use for feeding stock.
Mangels are sown earlier and have a longer period of growth than turnips; if they become well established in the summer they are less susceptible to autumn drought.
Generally speaking, we may say that the characteristic manure for turnips is superphosphate, and that for mangels is a nitrogenous manure such as nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia.
On the other hand, many are of the opinion that mangels seem to be able to benefit from large applications of farmyard manure.
Mangels remove slightly more, and turnips slightly less, than double the amount removed by cereals.
Mangels are, from their deeper roots, more capable of drawing their supply of phosphoric acid from the soil than turnips.
Some crops, however, may with advantage be treated with larger quantities of sulphate of ammonia, such as mangels and potatoes.
In conclusion, a few words may be said on the Norfolk experiments, carried out under the direction of Mr Cooke for the purpose of ascertaining the best and most economical manure for mangels and swedes on different Norfolk soils.
Such a crop as mangels removes more than six times as much potash from the soil as the cereals.
At present I am very busy with the figure of a woman whom I saw pulling mangels out of the snow.
Thus the picture or the drawing ought to be not only a study of a figure for the sake of the figure, and the incomparably harmonious form of the human body--but at the same time "a gathering of mangels in the snow"!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mangels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
