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not unlike the frame of a wheelbarrow, except that instead of the two 
legs it has two iron bars, reaching down to the earth, and connecting 
with a transverse blade, about three inches wide, which is set nearly 
parallel with the ground. The handles of the implement are held by a 
workman, like those of the common double-tailed plough, while the horse 
which draws it is led or ridden by a boy. With this implement, which 
is three and a half feet wide, all the weeds in the space it covers are 
cleared from a road or walk as rapidly as the horse can walk forward ; 
and it is only necessary to follow with a rake and remove the weeds, 
and the whole is in good order. 
On the lower portion of the upright bars, where they rise from the 
blade, there is an edge for cutting the turf on the sides of the walk, 
which performs its work very well and rapidly — the horse being care- 
fully led ; and it will, no doubt, answer perfectly for this purpose, in all 
those walks and roads not directly around the house, or where the great- 
est nicety is not required. 
The simplicity of 
this machine, the very 
small cost at which 
it is made, and the 
great saving of ex- 
pense and labour 
which it secures, will, 
we think, render it a 
valuable acquisition 
to all owners of large 
places, or to those 
wishing to keep up a 
long series of private roads and walks in the picturesque manner. For 
smaller gardens and grounds, where the most scrupulous nicety is ob- 
served, there is, of course, nothing that will supersede the common hoe, 
rake, and roller. 
[Fig. 20. Implement in use at Blithewood for cleaning gravel roads.] 
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