Mechanization in 1801, displacing the centuries-old hand method of making individual sheets of paper. One of the first mechanical devices used in agriculture was the seed drill invented by Jethro Tull around 1700. The seed drill allowed more uniform spacing of seed and planting depth than hand methods, increasing yields and saving valuable seed. Mechanized agriculture greatly increased in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with horse drawn reapers and horse powered threshing machines. By the late nineteenth century steam power was applied to threshing and steam tractors appeared. Internal combustion began being used for tractors in the early twentieth
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