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Jethro Tull
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(1674–1741) Inventor of the seed drill, which he used from 1701 on his father's farm near Wallingford in Oxfordshire. The machine, pulled by a horse, sowed three rows of seed at a time. The great advantage over scattering the seed corn was that it became possible to weed between the rows, for which Tull also invented a mechanical hoe. His results were so good that he published his method in The New Horse-Hoeing Husbandry (1731), an important early step in the mechanization of agriculture.
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