Who Was Jethro Tull?

He was an agricultural innovator and inventor who lived in Lower Basildon, Berkshire, in the late 1600s and 1700s. Born into a financially comfortable family he had hoped to study law but was forced by financial circumstances to manage the family farm. He hated the labour-intensive work, and set about trying to make it more efficiently done.

Tull is generally credited as the inventor of modern farming methods. He devised the first seed drill -- a device which could be pulled by a horse to simultaneously plough a field, drop the seeds into them, and cover the area over with soil again.

Tull invented a horse drawn hoe, and published his ideas about farming and plant nutrition in a best-seller. These ideas are considered to be the basis of modern mechanised farming and agricultural science.

However, there is a down side. Tull's labour-saving devices were so popular and effective that he put many agricultural workers out of a job. This contributed to mass unemployment within his own lifetime and for decades afterwards.

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Jethro Tull was a British agronomist and inventor. He was born in 1674 in Berkshire, England. Tull was educated in Oxford University. He perfected a horse-drawn seed bradawl that could economically propagate the seeds in neat rows. Later he carried on his experiments with a horse-drawn weed.

Jethro Tull stressed upon the importance of breaking up the soil into small particles. He was also anxious about the use of fertilizer of breaking up the soil. He took a wind of change in the existing agricultural pattern of the society. Tull's view upon agriculture was attacked at the start. But in long run his experiments were taken up by many of the leading land owners in England. They helped to form the basis of modern agriculture through the Tull's point of view. This great agronomist as well as an inventor was died on 21st of February, 1741 at a prosperous farm near Hungerford in Berkshire.

In the middle of the 1900s, there was a rock band called Jethro Tull, but they was different from the agronomist.

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