50 BUSH-HARROWING. 



I have said that meadows want good manur- 

 ing: this is usually done in- frosty weather, 

 when the heavy cart does not cut the sward. 

 After this supply has been spread by the fork, 

 the stones, shells, and other rubbish, which 

 may have been brought on, are carefully picked 

 up and removed. Soon after, the field should 

 be bush-harrowed, with a machine formed of 

 bundles of thorny shrubs, attached to a heavy 

 wooden frame, which, being drawn up and 

 down by a horse, combs and scratches the 

 manure and loose earth about. Then comes 

 the roller a huge cylinder of wood, made to 

 turn and support a timber frame of great 

 weight, which sometimes is further increased 

 by laying upon it a heavy piece of timber, a 

 wagon-wheel, or some such ponderous body. 

 This machine presses the earth and roots close, 

 and levels many little hillocks which would 



