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He had put in no late potatoes; but in September he harvested the balance of his early crop and, as they were a good keeping variety, he knew there would be enough to keep the family supplied until the next season. Of other roots, including a patch of well-grown mangels for Mrs. Atterson's handsome flock of chickens, there were plenty to carry the family over the winter.
Greenow was the early mangels; I'll be the late turnips. Come then, say the word. There ain't a bedroom in my house, not one of the front ones, that isn't mahogany furnished!" "What's furniture to me?" said Mrs Greenow, with her handkerchief to her eyes. Just at this moment Maria's mother stepped in under the canvas. It was most inopportune.
Vegetables and refuse from the kitchen help out in this matter, but seldom furnish a sufficient supply. Vegetables may be grown for this purpose. Mangels and sugar-beets are excellent. Cabbage, potatoes and turnips answer the purpose fairly well. Mangels are fed by splitting in halves and sticking to nails driven in the wall.
Eighty cows are kept in the shippons, ranged in rows, facing the paths by which they are all fed at the head. They are fed on turnips, mangels, or potatoes, with cut chaff of hay and straw, everything suitable being cut and steamed, in the winter on green clover, Italian ray-grass, and a little linseed-cake, in the summer.
"If you'd known Greenow, Mr Cheesacre " "I've no doubt he was a very good sort of man." "If you'd known him, you would not have addressed me in this way." "What difference would that make? My idea is that care killed a cat, as I said before. I never knew what was the good of being unhappy. If I find early mangels don't do on a bit of land, then I sow late turnips; and never cry after spilt milk.
But Abel delayed a week, at his master's request, that he might help pull a field of mangels, and Mr. Churchouse never saw him again. During his last days Estelle spent much time with him. He seldom mentioned any other person but himself. He wandered in a disjointed fashion over the past and mixed his recollections with his dreams.
If you want to improve your afalfa, keep everything else out of the field and help the plants by regular irrigations during the balance of the growing season. Beets and Potatoes. Which is the best for dairy cows, plain red mangels or a cross between these and sugar beets? Can you suggest a more profitable variety of potato than the Oregon Burbank?
Which would be most valuable to plant on river-bottom land for cattle and hog feed, sugar beets or mangels? Grow a large stock of beet by all means either a mangel or a tankard. Usually you will get more weight than with sugar beets; the cost of harvesting is far less, and the nutritive contents high enough. Keeping Pumpkins.
Vegetables, particularly potatoes and mangels, were grown in abundance, and I saw small fields of stubble, though what the grain was I do not know. I saw a threshing-machine drawn by a tractor going along the road, and one of the girls told me it was made in England.
Meals: potatoes and mangels. Our final try for liberty. Feel good for it." We had arrived at the river at two o'clock that morning, too played out to attempt the crossing then. We retraced our steps to a potato field, dug some of the tubers and, when daylight came, lit a fire and roasted them.
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