Halfway through with the mowing job my eye spotted certain thick spots of weeds, and so I started weeding.
I recognized him as the man I had seenmowing the lawn and working the garden hose.
Two men I'd never seen in my life stopped and gazed at me, and one of them asked me if I was mowing my lawn.
He must be held with a strong hand and not be allowed to bolt when the mowing machine starts.
By this means, although they were unable to save Cheadle from being burned, they succeeded, by reason of the excellence of their position and the admirable tactics they displayed, in mowing down another 2000 of the Tsar's soldiers.
It is calculated, however, to seed the levees as well as the check bottoms, and to run the mowers across the levees, thus leaving no waste land and mowing across the whole field and not between the levees as you propose.
In mowing for hay purposes it is desirable to raise the vetch off the ground to facilitate the action of the mower.
Bad wasn't the word for it, for they were bowling the lads over right and left, and as we got closer and closer their machine-gun fire was mowing us down something cruel.
The cows were tethered each to a separate iron pin sunk in the ground, all in a single row; and thus they eat their way across an entire meadow,--an animated mowing machine.
All along the Baegna valley, including the fertile basins wherein nestle the many vands or lesser fjords, there were men and women in the fields mowing the short grass and ripening grain.
The mowing fields at that time were full of strawberries of large size and admirable flavor, which you could scarce avoid crushing by dozens as you walked.
I would not advise mowing until the grass is at least three inches high.
Therefore about all one can do to prevent large weeds from becoming unsightly is to constantly curb their aspirations by mowing them down as soon as they reach a given height.
If you mow only once a week, I would advise the use of the rake, as long grass-clippings are always unsightly because they remain on top of the sward, while short clippings from frequent mowing sink into it, and are soon out of sight.
It is a moot point, however, whether grass should be turned at all, or left to "make" as it falls from the mowing machine.
The swathes as laid by the mowing machine lent themselves to this treatment in the old days when the swathe was only some 3 to 4 ft.
Instead of the scythe, for instance, the mowing machine is employed for cutting the crop, and with a modern improved machine taking a swathe as wide as 5 or 6 ft.
Fun they made of it, in truth, though long untilled fields were stubborn in their yielding to plow or harrow, and unmown meadows were such a tangle as tried the mettle of mowing machine and scythe.
Thrifty farmers may decry the importation into their mowing lots, but there is a glory to the cone-flower beside which the glitter of a gold coin fades into paltry nothingness.
Mowing like Grass Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.
There it luxuriates, and defies the scythe and the mowing machine.
The air was full of shot and bullet, shrapnel and shell, mowing out great gaps in the charging masses, who never faltered in their movement.
With the practical features proposed by a third of a hundred inventors carefully embodied in machines at the close of the first third of the century, came the practical reaping and mowing machine.
Following the reaping hook, not many centuries ago, came the scythe for mowing hay.
As a mowing machine slight improvements have been made; the only competitor for several years was one produced by Enoch Ambler, patented in 1834.
Again it may be said not a mowing machine of to-day is constructed otherwise.
It came into considerable use, and may be considered the prototype of the single wheel reaping and mowing machines that found their way upon the market subsequent to 1840.
He placed his gearing carriage upon two wheels,--not a mowing machine of the present day is constructed otherwise.
His death resulted from a wound in the stomach, inflicted with a scythe by a patient named Jonathan Morley, who was engaged in mowing the lawn in the inner court.
Joe in the meantime was mowing his opponents down with the regularity of a machine.
Through it all, Joe kept on smiling and mowing them down.
The privilege of "mowing the brakes" is still reserved to the keepers of the royal parks in the instrument by which they are appointed.
When he had drunk his coffee, Levin rode back again to the mowing before Sergey Ivanovitch had had time to dress and come down to the dining room.
I shall maybe do some mowingmyself too," he said, trying not to be embarrassed.
Next morning Konstantin Levin got up earlier than usual, but he was detained giving directions on the farm, and when he reached the mowing grass the mowers were already at their second row.
At first Levin, in answer to Kitty's question how he could have seen her last year in the carriage, told her how he had been coming home from the mowing along the highroad and had met her.
I had meant to come to the mowing to look at you, but it was so unbearably hot that I got no further than the forest.
And the mowing to be all done by hired labor, not on half-profits.
He had cut the whole of the meadow in front of his house, and this year ever since the early spring he had cherished a plan for mowing for whole days together with the peasants.
Well, what do you say, Fomitch--start mowing or wait a bit?
The grass was short close to the road, and Levin, who had not done any mowing for a long while, and was disconcerted by the eyes fastened upon him, cut badly for the first moments, though he swung his scythe vigorously.
Levin, not guessing that the peasants had been mowing no less than four hours without stopping, and it was time for their lunch.
Sorry as Konstantin Levin was to crush down his mowing grass, he drove him into the meadow.
He liked the work so much that he had several times tried his hand at mowing since.
Every one knows, that, from the mowing to the harvest, there will be no cessation of labour, and no time for rest.
In the midsummer-lent, when people are forced from want to feed on kvas[5] and bread and onions, begins the mowing time.
The work of mowing is one of the most important in the world.
Their mowing this morning decides their fate for the coming winter, whether they will be able to keep a cow and pay their taxes.
All its members and the visitors assemble towards the middle of June, because up to June they had been studying and passing their examinations: they assemble when mowing begins, and they stay until September, until the harvest and sowing time.
Illustration: Decoration] MY maid Mary She minds her dairy, While I go a-hoeing and mowingeach morn.
Merrily run the reel And the little spinning-wheel Whilst I am singing and mowing my corn.
He stood up on straddled legs, with the aged instrument at his eye, mopping and mowing at the luminary in the south, and biting hard in his puzzlement and efforts at a piece of tobacco that stood out in his cheeks like a knob.
Some were talking already of the 'grit' work and looking forward to it, that is, to mowing and haymaking, which mean better wages.
Yes, everything must be made smooth; I'm going to throw those two mowing lots into one.
There's a great deal of time lost every year in mowing up close to the walls, and they seldom look neat even then.
Then on goes his mowing machine and levels the crop of an entire field in no time.
The mowingmachine and the horse-rake must be drawn by a similar horse, so that the dairy farm may be said to require a style of horse like that employed by omnibus proprietors.
Though the old-fashioned sound of the mower sharpening his scythe is less often heard, being superseded by the continuous rattle of the mowing machine, yet the hay smells as sweetly as ever.
Besides the men, the mowing machine is idle in the shed.
While the mowing machine, the haymaking machine, and horse rake give the farmer the power of using the sunshine, when it comes, to the best purpose, they are not without an effect upon the labouring population.
Whenever there came a glimpse of sunshine, Dan was out in the field, making good use of his scythe; for mowing was new and exciting work to him, though he had seen it done every summer of his life.
They had not a large dairy, and never could have again; for the greater part of their pasture and mowing land lay on the wrong side of the high cedar fence so hotly resented by the children.
The horses were used to draw the grain and hay to the barn or the stacks when it was ready; but there were no patent rakes or mowing or reaping machines for them to draw.
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