Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 381 Earthworm

"In the future, when the production of miscellaneous grains in the county increases, I will directly manufacture compound full-price feed and sell it to farmers, instead of farmers mixing it themselves." Wu Nanhai has great ambitions, "This will further increase production, reduce technical difficulties, and promote It's easier to get up."

Speaking of which, Wu Nanhai rode 28 bars and brought Wan Lihui to a corner of the farm, where a whole piece of land had been leveled.Rows of small trees were planted on all sides, and drainage ditches were dug.

The most conspicuous thing is that there are many large baskets piled up not far from the flat ground. Although they are covered with many straw curtains, they still emit a pungent stench.Rotten liquid oozes from the ground, and flies dance happily on it.

Wan Lihui immediately saw his brother Wan Lihuang wearing a straw hat, sitting bored in a straw hut, chasing flies from time to time.

Wan Lihui covered his nose, "Is it so smelly?"

Wu Nanhai didn't seem to care, and leaned the car against a tree:

"Xiao Wan, this earthworm farm will be in charge of your brother from now on."

"Okay." Wan Lihui thought.Come on, this smelly and dirty job falls on our heads again-is it because we are farmers?He thought sadly and indignantly that his dream in this time and space was to play with guns freely, but now that he didn't get to play with guns, he went back to his hometown to work completely.

Even though he thought so, he couldn't show it on his face, and hurriedly said that he would resolutely complete the tasks given by the organization.

Artificial breeding of earthworms is a new agricultural technology.The main purpose is to provide protein feed for livestock, poultry, fish, etc. at a lower cost, and at the same time process various organic waste, turn waste into fertilizer, and eliminate the pollution of organic waste to the environment.It can also improve the terrain to a certain extent.

The earthworm Wu Nanhai plans to breed is red earthworm, which is a common species of earthworm in the earthworm farming industry. It belongs to dung earthworms. It likes to swallow all kinds of livestock dung, and it has a strong ability to pour fertilizer, which is suitable for artificial breeding.

"Look, this is the red earthworm that is going to be raised." Wu Nanhai opened the wooden box, and there were several purple-red earthworms 90-150 mm in size wriggling inside.

"This thing is easy to raise, provided that the feed is well prepared." Wu Nanhai led them to the crate with a foul smell. .

"Earthworm feed," he said, "comes from a wide range of sources. Basically, organic waste can be used as long as it is non-toxic and disease-free. For example, livestock and poultry manure, plants, fruit peels, bagasse, rotten fruits, etc. Red earthworms like it most. rotten fruit and rotten leaves—they like sweet and sour tastes."

"Rotten fruit is rare locally—" Wan Lihui thought that since Wu Nanhai started the all-area fertilizer plan, it seemed that no organic matter could escape his clutches, so he didn't know how he planned to distribute organic waste to earthworms.I don't know what is in that big pit, it stinks like hell.

"Rotten vegetables are fine. There are also wild fruits," Wu Nanhai seemed to have thought about it a long time ago, "Send us a few boats of jackfruit from Leizhou—there are many, many of them, and bagasse." He said Pull down the curtain covering the basket.

Inside the basket were rotten jackfruit and a lot of bagasse. A sweet, sour and stinky smell made him hold his nose.

"These have to be composted as soon as possible." Wu Nanhai frowned.

The organic matter used as feed must be fully fermented before it can be used. Earthworms are omnivorous annelids.These organic wastes must be composted and fermented before they can be swallowed and utilized, otherwise earthworms will die in large numbers.So in fact, one of the main tasks of Wanjia Brothers is to engage in composting and fermentation.

Wu Nanhai personally took a shovel and shoveled out all kinds of organic waste inside to demonstrate composting.

Before fermentation, the manure of livestock and poultry must be sprinkled with water and crushed.The stalks and straws of the crops are first cut into short strips with a hoe, and the rotten fruits and bagasse can be used directly.After piled up, water and mix evenly to make it fully moist, and then pile up on the ground with a height of one meter.The stacking should be loose and not compacted, which is conducive to the reproduction of high-temperature bacteria.Sprinkle water fully again, and the water content is between 50-60%.

After the feed is piled up, cover it with a plastic sheet to achieve the purpose of keeping warm and moisturizing.You can't get high-end things like large pieces of plastic sheeting here, so straw curtains are used instead.Then sprinkle with water to keep the grass curtains moist.

"After three or four days of accumulated organic waste, the temperature inside can rise to 50-60°C." Wu Nanhai opened his handbag, took out a strong object wrapped with straw rope, and carefully opened it. Here is a huge glass rod - this is the latest alcohol thermometer produced by the glass factory. It looks as ugly as a vibrator, enough to make nerds imagine infinitely.

"Thermometer, you need to monitor the temperature of the compost every day. It is not suitable if the temperature is too low or too high. You can turn the compost once every half a month and add water. After three or four times of turning and decomposing, the decomposed feed should be: black Brown in color, odorless, soft and not sticky. It's ready to use."

Wan Lihui watched Wu Nanhai scrape open a small pile, reached in and grabbed a handful of decomposed feed, and came out: "That's how it is."

This action convinced him a little: Yes, this is what an agricultural technician should look like.

Then Wu Nanhai started to take them to make earthworm beds, piled the decomposed feed into ridges with a width of 80 centimeters and a length of 200 to 300 centimeters, and then watered them.Finally he poured the earthworms in the wooden box into it.The worms burrowed into the feed almost immediately.

"If you refuse to go in, it means that the feed is not well decomposed." Wu Nanhai said, "This batch is the seed worms brought with the ship, but there are only a few dozen. Normally, each earthworm bed can be inoculated with a thousand. Probably It can reach 1.5 per square meter in three to four months, and it can be harvested at this time. Soon earthworms can be used as feed, and vermicompost can also be used as feed for fish and shrimp, and can also be used as fertilizer."

Wu Nanhai gave him another copy of the mimeographed booklet "Earthworm and Fly Maggot Breeding Technology", on which there was also a line of words "internal information, dedicated to the Council of Agriculture".

"Earthworm breeding is relatively simple. The main thing is to keep warm, moisturize and ventilate, and the other is to process feed."

"If you breed like this, it will take at least one quarter to form mass production capacity. Is it too late?"

"In time." Wu Nanhai said, "In the beginning, our lending scale was very small—there were not so many chickens, and the demand for formula feed would not be large."

After Wu Nanhai explained, he gave him another list of items, which were all the utensils needed to breed earthworms, such as rakes, shovels, and several masks from pharmaceutical factories.

"These are in your name, and the masks are ready to take with you - you must do a good job of labor protection, and you must take care of farm tools and the like."

When he found it, he got on his bicycle and walked away.The Wan brothers sat beside the earthworm bed, looking at each other.

"Brother, didn't you say that you can shoot the Japanese with a gun when you come to this place?" Wan Lihuang looked at his brother, "I see why we are required to do farm work all day long..."

"This—" Wan Lihui was speechless.This reality is too different from casually shooting Japanese pirates with a gun. "Let's build a new countryside first."

"Then why do we come here to build? Isn't it just going back to our hometown to build..."

"There are so many reasons!" Wan Lihui finally couldn't help it, "Go to the compost!"

The Wanjia brothers then started the construction of new countryside in the new time and space.

Wu Nanhai rode his bicycle leisurely through the field ridges, and he could meet his farm workers from time to time on the road.Everyone has gotten used to this kind of "iron wheeled cart". No one came to watch, but stood respectfully and waited for him to pass by when he passed by.As usual, Wu Nanhai wanted to say hello to the farmers and workers. This was not a manifestation of his "closeness to the people", but his nature to treat others with generosity, which has always been the case.

Now instead of going back to his office on the farm, he went to the newly built farm.

In the past, the farm was only a small part of the farm, basically a courtyard farming model.Subsequently, the number of livestock and poultry continued to increase through means such as war seizures and trade.In addition, in the spring, under the guidance of a professional veterinarian like Yang Baogui, the Council of Agriculture launched a large-scale artificial insemination campaign—with remarkable results. Obviously, the population will further expand by Xia's early autumn.The Council of Agriculture decided to establish a permanent farm ahead of this.

The breeding farm is near the horse shed that was originally built for Nick. In fact, the Agricultural Committee has been interested in this land for a long time. When building the horse shed for Nick, they thought about buying it together.

But in this large piece of wasteland, there is actually an owner's land, about [-] mu in size, and some peanuts have been planted, but it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.

For unowned land, as long as you go to the county government to complete the formalities, you can get the title deed for a little money, but it takes a lot of time to negotiate with the landlord of this land. This landlord is a one-sided person. Wu Nanhai followed When Zhang Youfu visited him, he couldn't believe that this man was actually a landlord—he lived in a house with a thatched roof.Although he was as poor as an ordinary small farmer, the landlord still refused to sell the land that he did not cultivate and could not cultivate at all. It is said that he would not be considered a landlord if he sold it.In order to maintain this false name, he is determined not to sell it.After negotiating for many times, it didn't work. Knowing about this, Dugu proposed marriage and even planned to mobilize his police team to seize.Zhang Youfu suggested: If the traveler doesn't want to do it himself, he can forge the land deed, and then go to the county government office for 100 taels of silver to file a lawsuit through Master Wang's way-you will win.

"No, no." Wu Nanhai shook his head when he heard that.He was unwilling from the bottom of his heart to collude with the government and bully others.Everyone also felt that this method was too dirty and would seriously damage the image of the Traveling Group--Da Ming's death is a matter of Daming, we are currently in the initial stage of the revolution, and Wei Guangzheng's image must be maintained.

(End of this chapter)