Drilling
A term applied to the plan of sowing small seeds in the open ground, in drills or shallow trenches usually made with a hoe. The ground should first be raked rather fine, and a line laid the required distance, and strained tight. The workman must then walk on the ground and make a trench next the line with the end of the hoe-blade. The depth may be regulated according to the size of the seed or the sorts. This method, for economy in seed sowing, is much superior to any other; for not only can the quantity at command be distributed more evenly, and the necessity of severely thinning the young plants thereby obviated, but weeding can be performed with every facility. Drills should be parallel to each other, and uniform in depth and distance apart.