Jethro Tull (agriculturist) the seed so that it could grow. Before the introduction of the seed drill, the common practice was to plant seeds by broadcasting (evenly throwing) them across the ground by hand on the prepared soil and then lightly harrowing the soil to bury the seeds to the correct depth. In his 1731 publication Tull described how the motivation for developing the seed-drill arose from conflict with his servants. He had struggled to enforce his new methods upon them, in part because they resisted the threat to their position as labourers and their skill with the plough. Jethro Tull invented some
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