British Agricultural Revolution far apart. Alternately seeds could be laboriously planted one by one using a hoe and/or a shovel. Cutting down on wasted seed was important because the yield of seeds harvested to seeds planted at that time was around four or five. The seed drill was introduced from China to Italy in the mid-16th century where it was patented by the Venetian Senate. Jethro Tull invented an improved seed drill in 1701. It was a mechanical seeder which distributed seeds evenly across a plot of land and at the correct depth. Tull's seed drill was very expensive and fragile and therefore
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill recorded by The Weavers and Makem and Clancy, among many others. One version runs: <poem> Every morning at seven o'clock There's twenty tarriers a workin at the rock The boss comes along and he says, "Keep still And come down heavy on the cast iron drill." "Chorus:" "So drill, ye tarriers, drill" "And drill, ye tarriers, drill" "Oh it's work all day for the sugar in your tay" "Down beyond the railway" "So drill, ye tarriers, drill." Our new foreman is John McCann By God, He was a blamed mean man Last week a premature blast went off And a