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If yon sow Mangel "Wurzels in the garden, mark off the 

 rows fifteen inches apart, and then run the same marker 

 across the rows and drop three or four seeds, where the 

 lines cross, and cover them about an inch deep, patting 

 the ground smooth with the back of the hoe, just as you 

 do when planting corn in the field. When the Mangel 

 Wurzels are fairly up, hoe them and thin out the plants, 

 leaving only one good strong plant in each hill. Suffer 

 not a weed to grow, and if the land is rich enough you 

 will have a great crop of roots. Next year you may 

 wish to plant an acre or two in the field. 



There are several varieties of Mangel Wurzel; in color 

 they are nearly all either red or yellow. The red, however, 

 is not by any means a deep bright red like the Blood 

 Turnip, or the Long Smooth Blood Beet. There is no 

 mistaking the one for the other. 



In shape we have round, or globe Mangels, and the 

 long varieties, with an intermediate class, called ovoids. 



This gives us six distinct kinds of Mangel Wurzel, and 

 in addition to these six, we have a great number of varie- 

 ties, or at any rate a great number of names. We have 

 Carter's Yellow Globe, and Sutton's Yellow Globe, and 

 Harris' Yellow Globe. All that is meant by it, or at any 

 rate all I mean by it is, that we have taken great pains 

 to select every year just such Mangels as come nearest to 

 our idea of what a good root should be, and we set out 

 these roots for seed. They are not distinct varieties, 

 but merely good strains which we wish to propagate. 



It would be a good thing for a farmer's son to get into 

 the habit of selecting some of the best Mangels and set- 

 ting them out for seed. I am not going to tell you which 

 is the best variety of Mangel or the best strain to grow. 

 On my own farm we prefer the Yellow Globe. 



They do not grow so deep in the ground as the long 

 kinds, and are much more easily harvested. We think 

 they are not so coarse as the Long Red Mangel, and we 



