Cutting back or shearing the plants.

Shearing

Cutting back or shearing the plants.

"A self-contained shearing and punching machine. The apparent ease with which machines of this kind, acting with a slow quiet stroke, shear or perforate plates of iron, even when of considerable thickness, gives an altogether false impression of the amount of power which the operation requires." —The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1903

Shearing Machine

"A self-contained shearing and punching machine. The apparent ease with which machines of this kind,…

Sheared sheep runs away from shepherd.

Sheep shearing

Sheared sheep runs away from shepherd.