- Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
…title="Tull's improved seed drill" }} Early seed drills were very crude devices and not much more effective than sewing seeds by simply throwing them about. Some would germinate and some would fail. It was a very inefficient way of seeding that …
…roduce good crops. Jethro Tull’s seed drill immeasurably improved this problem. He created a machine that would plant seeds in three rows at a time. == Improved technique == A hole for the seed would be made at a proper depth. The seed would…
…d in. The hole would be covered over by a harrow (a trailing bar), which gathered soil and evenly deposited it over the seeds. The machine, horse or ox drawn would then move to the next position and seed again. {{Image url="SeedInDrills.jpg" cla…