Seed drill China, and later a seed drill by Jethro Tull that was influential in the growth of farming technology in recent centuries. Even for a century after Tull, hand sowing of grain remained common. In older methods of planting, a field is initially prepared with a plow to a series of linear cuts known as "furrows". The field is then seeded by throwing the seeds over the field, a method known as "manual broadcasting". The seeds may not be sown to the right depth nor the proper distance from one another. Seeds that land in the furrows have better protection from
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