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Jethro Tull (baptised 30 March 1674 – 21 February 1741, New Style) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who helped to bring about the British Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century. He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that economically sowed the seeds in neat rows, and later developed a horse-drawn hoe .
Jethro Tull may refer to: Jethro Tull (agriculturist) (1674–1741), English agriculturist, often credited with inventing the seed drill Jethro Tull (band) , a British rock group named after the agriculturist
Jethro Tull (agriculturist) W. Henry J. Webb; John Wedge; Richard Weston (canal builder) Jacob Wilson (agriculturist) William Wilson (English academic) Thomas Barlow ...
Tull is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Davis Tull (born 1991), American football player) Edmund Tull (1870–1911), Hungarian artist; Fisher Tull (1934–1994), American musician; Jethro Tull (agriculturist) (1674–1740), English agricultural pioneer; Mustafa Wahbi et Tull (1897–1949), Jordanian poet
1.1 Jethro Tull horse powered hoe. 2 comments. 1.2 Why is the English medieval period usually said to end in 1485? 15 comments. 1.3 Pensions. 4 comments. 1.4 Old New ...
Can someone write an assessment of Tull's work using more modern and comprehensible language? I am fairly sure that this part is flat-out wrong, and one of the agricultural practices that led to the Dust Bowl: "In the driest weather good hoeing procures moisture to the roots of plants, though the ignorant and incurious fancy it lets in the ...
The 3rd edition of The Complete Farmer (1777) listed Hale in the subtitle of this work among other foremost authorities, such as Carl Linnaeus, Louis François Henri de Menon, Hugh Plat, John Evelyn, John Mortimer, John Worlidge, Jethro Tull, William Ellis, Philip Miller, Edward Lisle, Roque, John Mills, and Arthur Young. [4]
Townshend was the eldest son of Sir Horatio Townshend, 3rd Baronet, who was created Baron Townshend in 1661 and Viscount Townshend in 1682. The old Norfolk family of Townshend, to which he belonged, is descended from Sir Roger Townshend (d. 1493) of Raynham, who acted as legal advisor to the Paston family, and was made a justice of the common pleas in 1484.