A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while being dragged by a tractor. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly.
Filling a feed-box of a seed drill, Canterbury Agricultural College farm, 1948
Drilling the field
Chinese double-tube seed drill, published by Song Yingxing in the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia of 1637
1902 model 12-run seed drill
Sowing is the process of planting seeds. An area or object that has had seeds planted in it will be described as a sowed or sown area.
Simon Bening, Labors of the Months: September, from a Flemish Book of hours (Bruges)
Men sowing seed by hand in the 1940s
Manual sowing machine
A tray used in horticulture (for sowing and taking plant cuttings)