Mangel, Mammoth Long Red

Listed in WH Steves 1888 catalogue as "The heaviest cropperand best long mangel. This variety grows to an immense size\, single roots weighing 30 to 40 pounds each, and I have grown as high as eighty tons of these roots to an acre without showing coarseness of texture or roughness of form. They are invaluable for stock feeding." 120 days, 10-25 lbs., heaviest cropper often growing to an immense size, red with white flesh, grows half out of the ground, grown on our farm since the 1880s, this seed was purchased locally in late 1960s