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Description: The heavy roller, known as a scrub roller or mallee roller and drawn by horses or oxen, was used to clear scrubland by flattening the mallee stumps and other vegetation, before sowing. The process was known as mullenising, after a farmer named Charles Mullen, who probably invented it.
Title: Scrub roller 1922
Credit: https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+280/1/34/52 - State Library of South Australia photograph collection
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Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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