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Seeding:
Machines
for sowing seed across a field in straight rows were developed in the
eighteenth century but not until during the course of the nineteenth were
they widely available or adopted.
The traditional method
of broadcasting seed by hand, as illustrated in medieval manuscripts,
could still be found even in the twentieth century. This 1946 photograph
shows a farm worker in Kent. The field had already been sown by machine
with oats, and he is now going over it again, this time scattering wheat
seed across it by hand to thicken up the crop.
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