Clear (scrubland) and prepare it for cultivation.
a patch of 80 acres has already been mullenized
Example sentencesExamples
- This ground was all mullenised and burnt in February.
- They were also continuing to advocate mullenising the scrub.
- There are also some patches to be mullenised.
- The men were put on to grub, clear and mullenise up to 15 inches.
- Before the end of the nineteenth century mallee lands were being mullenised.
- Rain is now badly wanted to enable the farmers in this district to start ploughing on the newly-mullenised land.
- Lately we have mullenised the land.
- Trials suggested that the cost of knocking down was not more than one third of the cost of mullenising by hand.
- These men took up lands covered with mallee scrub and devoted their time to mullenising it.
- Another member doubted whether five horses could roll scrub that would cost even 6 shillings per acre to mullenise.