60s: I have a store

Chapter 376 The Secret Revealed
Zhou Zhiming turned around and was almost frightened to death.

He stroked his chest and said unhappily, "Comrade Lin Guohuai, if you scare people, you will scare them to death."

Lin Guohuai ignored this and stared at the grains, asking, "Comrade Zhou, what are you feeding the chickens with?"

Originally, these were the secrets of Zhoujiazhuang and could not be told to outsiders.

But since the village planned to produce feed and set up a feed workshop, it would be difficult to conceal it. So, last night the old party secretary and his team decided to make this public.

Otherwise, Lin Guohuai would not have come here. Someone had already informed Zhou Zhiming and hidden the feed.

"This is the feed prepared by the people of our village, specially for feeding poultry and the like. The chickens in our village grow fast and fat, which is inseparable from this feed," said Zhou Zhiming.

"Oh? Can you tell me in detail?" Lin Guohuai seemed to have heard some incredible secret.

The last time he came to Zhoujiazhuang to research chicken farming technology, Lin Guohuai thought that it would be impossible to raise such fat chickens in a short period of time using only those methods.

So, he did it again today.

As expected, Zhoujiazhuang still had some reservations last time.

This is understandable. After all, this is something Zhoujiazhuang figured out themselves. They can't tell everything to others, right?

He had heard that raising chickens could make a lot of money for the people of Zhoujiazhuang! The villagers would get dividends. Because this was a collective effort, the higher-ups couldn't say anything.

"I don't quite understand either. You have to go ask Yimin." Zhou Zhiming said with a smile.

Lin Guohuai was not in a hurry to find Zhou Yimin immediately, wanting to see what the feed was like.

He reached out to grab a little, put it to his nose and smelled it. It had a special smell. Lin Guohuai suddenly asked, "Can people eat it?"

This question stumped Zhou Zhiming.

"I don't know about that!"

Lin Guohuai picked up a pill and actually put it in his mouth to chew it, and it seemed to feel pretty good.

Looking at the chickens eating heartily on the ground, he knew that poultry liked to eat this kind of food.

After observing for a while, Lin Guohuai went to find Zhou Yimin.

Before I reached Zhou Yimin's house, I saw Zhou Yimin playing with the children on the way. The children were wearing cotton clothes and looked very energetic.

In some villages, people can't even get enough to eat. Why do they run out to freeze in such a cold weather? Are they bored?

Generally speaking, at this time, children would not leave the house unless they had something to do, and would hide in the house to keep warm. The more you know about Zhoujiazhuang, the more you will find that it is wealthy.

The villagers can all eat well, earn money, and live with electricity in their own village, which is very rare. Of course, Lin Guohuai also heard that Zhou Yimin was the key to this, leading the village to generate income.

"Comrade Yimin, nice to meet you again." Lin Guohuai greeted.

Zhou Yimin was also a celebrity in their commune. Although he seldom went to the commune, there were legends about him in the commune.

He has invented many inventions that benefit the country and the people, and has been commended by the government more than once or twice. Water-pressurized wells, solar cookers, threshers, etc. Aren't they closely related to farmers?
Lin Guohuai's uncle said that when you arrive in Zhoujiazhuang, try to interact with Zhou Yimin and get to know him. It will do you no harm.

Lin Guohuai knew what to do without his uncle reminding him!

Even if there was no issue with feed today, he would come and chat with Zhou Yimin.

"Yes! Nice to meet again. How are you doing recently?" Zhou Yimin took out a pack of cigarettes and offered one to the other party. What a man!
Passing a cigarette is the highest etiquette.

"That's great. The chicken hatchery has given the commune a lot of inspiration. The commune's chicken farm is also planning to build one." Lin Guohuai said.

There must be chicken farms in the commune, they just vary in size.

To be honest, the chickens raised by the commune last year were far inferior to those raised in a small village called Zhoujiazhuang. That was why the commune sent people to learn from them.

Meat was very important to the country and the people, and each commune was trying to find ways to increase it.

Zhou Yimin smiled and said, "That's great!"

"It's a good thing. Expanding the scale of chicken farming is also supported by the leaders above. But expanding the scale of breeding means investing more food. As you know, the current situation is not optimistic!" said Lin Guohuai.

Some people in the commune opposed the expansion of chicken farming, arguing that there was not enough food for people to eat, so why waste it on chickens?
People can live without meat, but they cannot live without food.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Zhou Yimin nodded: "Understood."

"I came here today and found that you have a kind of feed in Zhoujiazhuang. I heard from Comrade Zhou Zhiming that it was you who mixed it, and it can make chickens grow fast and healthy. I came here just to ask you about the feed. Just now, I tasted some and it seemed that beans were added to it." Lin Guohuai didn't beat around the bush.

Zhou Yimin was surprised: "..."

Tasted some?
Good guy!
However, when I think about the fact that some ordinary people were so hungry that they had to eat tree bark, grass roots, and even Guanyin soil, it seems that feed is not unacceptable. It may even be better than tree bark, grass roots, and Guanyin soil, right?
"You can't say that I mixed it up. I saw some information in ancient books and figured it out on my own."

The feed contains protein, energy, macro-minerals, trace minerals, vitamins and various nutritional and non-nutritional additives to meet the animal's needs.

"It does contain bean ingredients, mainly soybean meal. It is too luxurious to use beans directly," Zhou Yimin added.

"See it in ancient books?" Lin Guohuai was surprised.

As far as he knows, inventions such as the water pressurized well seemed to have been inspired by what Zhou Yimin saw in ancient books, right?

awesome!

"Yes! In the old society, didn't people raise birds? Some people specially prepared bird food so that the birds would grow well. I think birds and chickens are similar, they are both poultry, so they should be connected." Zhou Yimin was not panicked.

His explanation was so logical and well-founded that Lin Guohuai could not find any fault with it. He kept nodding and giving a thumbs-up.

"That's right! That's right! No one has thought of this before!"

Zhou Yimin continued, "In history, leaves were also used as feed! The ancient document Shennong's Herbal Classic records that 'feeding pigs with tung leaves will make them three times bigger and easier to raise.'"

The leaves of many trees are rich in protein, minerals and vitamins. The leaves of more than 00 kinds of trees can be used as feed. They can be fed fresh or stored in cellars or tanks after harvesting. After drying and crushing, they can also be fed to livestock and poultry during the winter and spring grass dry season.

Especially the locust leaves, which contain 20.82% crude protein, 2.7% crude fat, 19.48% crude fiber, 31.69% nitrogen-free extract, etc. It is said that the protein content of 2 kg of locust leaf powder is equivalent to 1 kg of bean cake.

Adding 5% Sophora japonica leaf powder to chicken feed can improve egg production and increase egg yolk pigment.

Therefore, locust leaf feed is one of the feeds that Zhou Yimin plans to make.

The two chatted a lot, and Lin Guohuai took a lot of notes.

(End of this chapter)