We also discovered that the mounds of dirt in fields near the road covered stacks of potatoes or rutabagas to keep them from freezing.
"The Biography of a Rabbit"
Roy Benson, Jr.
We would dig out the rutabagas and eat them raw.
"The Biography of a Rabbit"
Roy Benson, Jr.
rutabagas and turnips will give the milk an offensive taint if fed freely at any other time than just after the milk has been withdrawn, but that is not true of mangel wurtzel, sugar beets, or carrots.
"Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry"
Pratt Food Co.