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Tull’s drill was constructed with three seed hoppers giving on to cylinders with recessed holes cut at intervals around the cylinder; the cylinders could be removed and exchanged to accommodate different sized seeds.
Jethro Tull invented the seed drill (in 1701), the horse-drawn hoe, and an improved plough. Tull was educated at Oxford, England where studied law, he later studied agriculture during his travels across Europe.
31 gru 2010 · Eighteenth-century British gentleman farmer Jethro Tull (1674–1741) is popularly regarded as the inventor of the seed drill, widely cited by agricultural historians, soil scientists and school...
Seed drills plant shallow. Normally the ground is fielded once or twice, then seeds drilled. This 12 foot Fallbrook survivor may have been built in the 1950s.
Jethro Tull's seed drill revolutionized agriculture by planting seeds in neat rows as opposed to scattering them, improving farming efficiency.
The seed drill allows farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths at a specific seed rate; each tube creates a hole of a specific depth, drops in one or more seeds, and covers it over.
Tull’s seed drill’s invention enormously improved seed germination in British agriculture. Now the seed was more firmly rooted in the soil, was spread evenly and in an optimum way around fields, and was not exposed to the air where birds could swoop down and eat it.
