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From: trb@cbscc.UUCP (Tom Balent)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: JT
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 07:31:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 07:31:54 1985
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	Since you asked, from the Encyclopedia Britannica:

		Tull, Jethro (b. 1674, Basildon, Berkshire -
		d. Feb 21, 1741, Prosperous Farm, near Hungerford)
		, agriculuturist, writer, and inventor whose
		advanced ideas helped form the basis of modern
		systems of British agriculture. Tull trained
		for the bar, to which he was called in 1699; but
		he chose instead to operate a farm on which in
		about 1701 he invented a seed drill that sowed seeds
		in neat rows, saving seed as well as making it
		easier to keep the weeds down. While travelling
		in France and Italy, he was impressed by the
		cultivation methods in use in the vineyards.
		His observations inspired him to loosen the soil
		around his crops, and thus increase the access
		of water to plant roots, by means of a 
		horse-drawn hoe. His ideas were subject to violent
		attack because of their novelty, but they gradually
		gained wide acceptance.
	

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