Scrub roller |
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| Title : | Scrub roller |
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| Date of creation : | 1924 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
A roller used in land clearing. Mullenising was a process for land clearing where a heavy roller was dragged across the scrub and the debris burned. Charles Mullen developed this process in the 1870s to clear his mallee covered land near Wasleys north of Adelaide. |
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| Coverage year : | 1924 |
| Further reading : | Whitelock, Derek. Conquest to conservation : history of human impact on the South Australian environment, Cowandilla, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 1985 Tim Dendy and Joan Murray (eds). From conflict to conservation : native vegetation management in Australia : a focus on the South Australian program and other Australian initiatives, past present and future : seminar proceedings, Adelaide, 21 November 1995, Adelaide : South Australian Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources, 1996. |
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