...ls, drills, or broadcast, but it is confined more usually to machines for distributing seed in drills or broadcast. Seeding in Egypt was done upon the mud left by the retiring Nile. When Osiris retired within his banks, the fertilized ground brought forth, and the husbandman who scattered the seed from his basket was followed by the plows, the bush-harrow, or by a flock of sheep or goats, w...