Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 382 Farm

Zhang Youfu thought for a while: "There is another way, but it's a little troublesome, and it won't be done in a while."

"As long as I get this land, I'd be happy to wait a little longer." Wu Nanhai said, as long as it's done before autumn.

"Then you just wait for my news." Zhang Youfu asked Wu Nanhai for more than 200 taels of silver, and then wandered around in several fields near the county seat. The title deed was exchanged for the land.

Seeing this result, everyone in the Council of Agriculture was dumbfounded.Let’s talk about the price offered by the Transit Group during several negotiations. If he doesn’t want the silver, the Council of Agriculture also proposed that he can exchange it with real objects, and the value is not lower than this. The old man rejected all of them. How could he agree to it as soon as he exchanged the title deed?

"Isn't he just wanting to be a landlord, and now he is willing to give him a landlord Dangdang." Zhang Youfu was proud.

"Aren't we willing to pay? It's not the same to buy land with money."

"The barbarian has never seen the world, and he is just afraid of being deceived." Zhang Youfu said contemptuously—the difference between urban and rural areas is still quite serious.

"So that's how it is." Wu Nanhai nodded, it seems that this shabby household can live and drink in the county for a long time because of his strengths.

"The habits of traditional farmers are really incomprehensible." Ye Yuming expressed such emotion at that time.

"In the past, farmers had no experience of the world, no culture, and were often deceived by others. It is normal to be on guard. So it is difficult to do rural work."

According to Zhang Youfu, what is more incomprehensible is this group of "kun thieves". The poor go to offend the thieves.

Simply put, this method is to buy people's hearts, but Zhang Youfu seems to think that this matter is not so simple.

This piece of land bought with great care and expense is to the south of the farm, where the Wenlan River has a small backwater area, forming a large shoal with a large number of reeds.The land is flat, with small rolling hills nearby, and it is easy to get water. Wu Nanhai and Yang Guigui felt that this place is more suitable for a formal breeding farm after surveying.

The new farm has two farms for livestock and poultry.Wu Nanhai likes to come here very much, not only because of his work relationship, but also with a great sense of accomplishment every time he comes here.Especially after the voyage around the island is over, the channels for obtaining product resources have been further expanded.Bopu opened regular ship flights to Changhua and Yulin.A large number of cattle and sheep were transported from Changhua, which rapidly expanded the population.Everyone's favorite meat - the number of pigs has also expanded.According to his estimation, by next year at least among the traversers, the per capita meat eating standard of the citizens of the great cosmic country in the 21st century can be restored.

Wu Nanhai went to the stables first, and Yang Baogui was learning how to ride a horse from Nick recently - he felt that the bumps on the dirt road hurt his buttocks too much, and the seat hurt his perineum.

"I don't want to cause prostate problems because of riding a bicycle. I have a wife." Yang Baogui went to learn how to ride a horse in this way, and he planned to ride a horse when he went out in the future.Nick promised him that he could ride a Dian horse when he went out, as a reward for his medical treatment of the horse.

When Wu Nanhai went to look for him, Nick told him that Yang Baogui had gone to the poultry farm to supervise the hatchery.

This large hatchery was built in conjunction with the poultry promotion program of the Tiandihui.Artificial egg hatching appeared very early in China, and it was very popular in the Ming Dynasty, so it is not a new time travel technology.However, artificial hatching of eggs is not popular in Lingao. Although chickens, ducks and geese are common poultry in the local area, the scale of breeding is small, and there is no demand for this aspect.

There are many kinds of artificial egg incubation methods in the local method, the most common ones are the Kang incubation method in the north and the cylinder incubation method in East China.Wu Nanhai didn't come from a farming background, so he had to teach Yang Baogui about this matter. He used to go to the countryside to serve farmers and had a lot of experience.

He suggested to use the kang incubation method in the north. This method has simple equipment and large hatching capacity, which is very suitable for large-scale breeding needs.If the technology is skilled, the hatching rate is between 80% and 90%, which is comparable to the modern electric incubation method.An ordinary Qihuodong Kang incubation workshop can store [-] eggs at a time, and can hatch as many as [-] eggs per month. Even if it needs to be expanded, it is quite simple, and hardly requires any modern equipment and materials— ―Compared with the thermal insulation of fired bricks, adobe bricks are more suitable for hatchery.

When Wu Nanhai came to the construction site, he saw Yang Baogui giving guidance on the construction site. This newly-built hatchery has been slightly improved, with tile roofs and brick-wrapped exterior walls—after all, in Lingao, pure adobe Houses don't last long.

"I always feel that it's a waste." Wu Nanhai looked at the humble little house under construction.He was very worried about where to find [-] eggs each time.Because there are few eggs and the storage period of the embryos of the sperm eggs is very short, the collected eggs are all hatched naturally by the hens.

"It won't be wasted. Drying work is inevitable during the rainy season. Can this hatchery also serve as a guest drying room?"

Yang Guigui persuaded him not to worry: "The first batch of brooding broods can provide about [-] chicks. It is enough for [-] small farmers to raise. Gradually, the batch will increase. This is a gradual process-you think we There were only a few chickens when we first moved here? Now there are hundreds of chickens. The growth rate is several thousand percent. If we mobilize the masses like this, we may have to expand by the end of the year.”

"Take me to the chicken coop."

"Okay. Let me take care of them first." Yang Baogui looked at the situation on the construction site. The most important flue of the kang has been basically completed-this part is the most important. A well-coiled kang saves fuel and transmits heat quickly. .If the plate is bad, if you don't like heat, you will pour out cigarettes.It is also a specialized craft.Of course, there are no workers in Lingao, even among the immigrants.Completely read the operation.Construction according to drawings.He gave instructions to the foreman, and took Wu Nanhai to the newly completed chicken coop.

The new chicken coop still adopts the free-range farming method of bamboo fences and fishing nets, and plants climbing vine vegetables as the shelter of the chicken coop.The new chicken house has realized separate house feeding.Breeders are housed separately, and laying hens, chicks and rearing hens each have their own space without interfering with each other.It is convenient to add different feeds according to their state.Finally, there is a bronze turkey, and now they have grown to a dozen or so.

More than two hundred chickens are moving in the vast space under the cage net.Seems to be in good spirits.The ground had just been sprinkled with water and smelled of lime.

"The chicken manure is regularly cleaned here every day, and then sprinkled with lime water for disinfection—it can't be helped, the density is still a bit higher. It must be prevented from getting sick. Besides, chicken manure is also feed, so it can't be wasted."

"We don't raise fish, do we?"

Chickens have a short digestive tract, and the feces they excrete also contain many nutrients.Wu Nanhai knows that there is a kind of circular agriculture in which chickens are raised next to fish ponds and the chicken manure is fed to the fish.

"Feed the pigs."

"Damn, it's disgusting." Wu Nanhai felt bored thinking about the smell of chicken manure.

"Pigs like to eat after fermentation." Yang Baogui said with a wry smile, "To be honest, I don't like this feeding method either. In the future, when there is enough feed, it will be used as fertilizer."

Wu Nanhai followed him to the duck shed.Ducks are actually much more profitable than chickens in poultry farming.Duck is an omnivorous poultry that can forage for itself in grazing, is resistant to rough feeding, and has a high feed conversion rate.When the first rice was planted in spring, Fa Shilu also experimented with raising ducks in the rice fields, letting the ducks forage in the rice fields, not only can use the snails, small fish and shrimps in the rice fields, but also eliminate pests and weeds.Fa Shilu planned to wait for the rice in the rice field to be harvested before driving the ducks in to clear the field and eat the grains and scattered rice left in the field.This is much more convenient and thorough than manual cleaning.There is also a nice term in Japan called "Duck Rice Cultivation", which can be regarded as an old-fashioned pure natural rice production method.

The duck shed is located next to the river bay, and a bamboo fence separates the water bay from the river, and there is a gate that can be opened and closed.Lest the duck run away on its own.The reeds here are dense, the river water is rich in nutrients, and there are a lot of aquatic animals such as snails that ducks love to eat along the river bend.The Council of Agriculture found a duck breeder who went out to release ducks every day. He also caught snails and clam shells, smashed them and used them as feed for ducks.

"Don't trample on it." Yang Baogui reminded him not to trample on the grass on the river beach.The ducks probably just lay eggs in it casually, and the duck breeder will make a round of inspection in the evening to pick up all the eggs.

"We now have more than 200 ducks and more than 30 geese. Ducks and geese save more feed than chickens. In addition to protein feed for eggs, a large number of them use green feed, and the egg production rate is also good. .It can also be used as a breeding object for promotion.”

The ducks are local native ducks and Peking ducks brought from modern time and space.Yang Baogui was going to crossbreed them to see how the effect would be. As for the goose traveler, he didn't bring it—because the native goose breed in China is recognized as a fine breed.He simply bought a few from the market - the most common lion head goose in South China

Wu Nanhai said: "Ducks and geese must have water surface, and the breeding conditions are limited, so they are not as easy to promote as chickens. Besides, duck eggs and goose eggs are not popular. Everyone still likes eggs. Duck eggs are not made into preserved eggs, and some people are willing to make salted eggs. Eat it? Have you ever eaten goose eggs?"

"I've eaten bad goose eggs, they taste good." Yang Baogui recalled the delicious taste of bad goose eggs.

"Poultry grows fast. It would be great if pigs could also have such a high reproductive efficiency."

"The reproductive rate of pigs is not bad. A sow can produce [-] piglets in two litters a year, and the survival rate is still very high if it is properly raised." Yang Baogui said, "The biggest problem is the lack of sows."

(End of this chapter)