seed-drill

The seed-drill for planting one row, with a share on each side to turn soil on to the grain, is an anticipation of some later inventions nearer home.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

The tool-house of every garden of any size should contain a seed-drill.

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930

But that is not all: it may be had as part of a combination machine, which, after your seeds are planted -- with each row neatly rolled on top, and plainly visible -- may be at once transformed into a wheel hoe that will save you as much time in caring for your plants as the seed-drill did in planting your seed.

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930

The seed-drill is the best implement for planting wheat.

Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902

"The Lass of Gowrie from inside of a seed-drill -- what a phenomenon!"

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

Lucetta next recognized him, and more mistress of herself said archly, "The 'Lass of Gowrie' from inside of a seed-drill -- what a phenomenon!"

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

It should be sown the first of May in drills three and one-half feet apart; sow with seed-drill.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

If the corn planter is, as it seems to be, basically a seed-drill, then efficiency isn't its only advantage.

Kitchen Parade 2009

If the corn planter is, as it seems to be, basically a seed-drill, then efficiency isn't its only advantage.

ElyseKufeldt.com 2009