LETTER OF THE MONTH
MANGEL WURZELS
As so often happens when reading , memories of times past come back to you. This happened while reading Graham Hampstead’s articles in the February and March editions, where he talks about lifting his mangel wurzels. Back in the Fifties, when I was a child growing up on our family farm in Wiltshire, I remember the mangels being lifted by hand and the tops chopped off with one swipe of a large knife similar to a bill hook but with a straight
