It is a good plan to expose the mangolds to the air for a few days prior to feeding them to the pigs; this exposure hastens their ripening and reduces the proportion of water.
With the passing of the month swedes and artichokes will have lost much of their nourishment; mangolds can now take their place.
The proportions fed at the Cambridge University Farm are mangolds 20 lbs.
If mangolds have to be purchased at £1 per ton, they help to make the meals more palatable.
Next year I shall try grafting beets and mangolds by cutting the young white root into a square shape and placing four red roots all round.
This honest fellow confessed that digging potatoes and pulling mangolds were not his regular occupations, but that he had come "for the fun of the thing," and to show them there were still "loyal men left in Ireland.
The notion of growing turnips and mangolds in a country made for root crops was at first not well received.
On such newly broken-up ground I saw numerous potato ridges, the large area of turnips and mangolds already spoken of, grasses and rape for sheep-feed.
Turnips and mangolds are growing in great forty-acre squares.
Fairly large potato-fields occur at short intervals, and mangolds and turnips are grown for feeding stock.
On the other side of the hedge was a "cave" of mangolds upon which the Rats had been committing fearful ravages, as is their wont, and this particular thief had waxed fat upon such fare.
They skulk along the hedgerows until they reach the "cave" where the farmer has stored his mangolds to secure them from frost.
Professor Rogers once said when speaking of the tenant farmers, that their heads were as soft as the mangolds they grew.
I think some of the labourers' heads are as soft as the mangolds they hoe.
By these means the progressive agriculturist has produced a crop of swedes or mangolds which in individual size and collective weight per acre would seem to an old-fashioned farmer perfectly fabulous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mangolds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
