Soon the ground sinks, and then the cornfields approach, extending on either hand- barley, already bending under the weight of the awn, swaying with every gentle breath of air, stronger oats and wheat, broad squares of swede and turnip and dark-green mangold.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
83 41. Rolling in mangold seed on the farm.
"Lessons on Soil"
E. J. Russell
Then there was meat to salt while it could be had; for, in default of turnips and mangold-wurzel, there was a great slaughtering of barren cows as soon as the summer herbage failed; and good housewives stored up their Christmas piece of beef in pickle before Martinmas was over.
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell