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Seed Drill In The 1700's
How many of us like eating vegetables? Not a lot right, but growing vegetables is still as difficult today as it was in the 1700’s. The invention of the seed drill was really one of the most useful inventions in that time because it helped make the farmers work easier. The seed drill was created by Jethro Tull to make the lives of the laborers easier and not waste the seeds of what could’ve been a surplus of food. The seed drill was a mechanical machine that would plant the seeds in rows rather than the method used prior where farmers would scatter them wastefully because they had to dig all the holes themselves.
Jethro Tull, the inventor of the seed drill, was born on March 30, 1674 and died on February 21, 1741. He was born in the United

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