Farming Lord of Crossing

Chapter 17 17. Breeding
Determined to take in this group of refugees, Ross naturally began to consider their use value, and then thought of a refugee who could raise cattle and sheep. Thinking of this, Ross waved his finger at the refugee and asked: "What's your name? What do you know?" raising sheep, right?"

The refugee stepped forward respectfully with a look of fear and flattery on his weather-covered face, "Dear Mr. Village Chief, my name is Hailin. Hailin Joseph. Our Joseph family has fought for the original lord for generations. Manage the yield per mu, and the pasture of the original lord of my generation has reached the scale of nearly [-] cattle and sheep."

"Very good!" This is a talent. Los was very happy to hear the news. He took out his wallet and threw it directly to Hailin without leaving a single silver coin. "There are about 30 gold coins here. Go and buy them." A hundred or so sheep, and the rest of the money to buy a few cows. Karl, you can go shopping with Hailin."

"Yes, Lord Village Chief!" Hearing Luo Si's arrangement, Hai Lin took the purse excitedly, as if he had come to life, changed his original numb and desperate expression, and radiated amazing passion, he patted Chest assured: "Please rest assured, Mr. Village Chief, I will definitely select the best-growing sheep and the most robust cows."

Seeing the rejuvenated Hailin leave in good spirits, the other refugees showed envious expressions, then turned their heads and peeked at the young village head on the carriage, their hearts filled with hope and worry for the future.

Two hours later, Hailin and Carl returned with more than 100 carefully selected sheep and six cows.

Ross observed carefully and found that the ratio of males and females of the more than 100 sheep was very reasonable and all of them were full of energy.Such a flock of sheep can multiply and grow quickly as long as they are properly fed after returning to the village.

The six cows are also five females and one male. It seems that they should all be three or four-year-old big cows that have given birth. Go back and feed them well. Next year, a few trainee soldiers will have endless fresh milk.

Ross was very satisfied with this, and he didn't hesitate to praise him, and praised loudly: "Mr. Hailin, you have done a very good job. From now on, you will be in charge of the farm in Stan Village."

Not mentioning the envy or even jealousy of other refugees towards Hailin, Haili knelt down on the ground excitedly, and said loudly with tears: "Thank you for the trust of the village chief, Hai Lin will definitely mention that the village chief raised the fattest the strongest sheep and the strongest cows. I pledge my life and the honor of Joseph's family."

Ross smiled and asked Hailin to get up, and then directed the refugees to work together to drive the cattle and sheep, while his own patrolled the protection team and rushed towards the village.

The next day, Rose and his party returned to Stan Village smoothly.

On the way, after fully understanding the situation of the refugees, Ross made arrangements for their future work and life.

Blacksmith Curry can make farm tools and ordinary weapons, which is very important to the current Stan Village. It can greatly facilitate the villagers to add farm tools, and can also repair weapons and armor for the militia in time.Ross plans to build him a blacksmith shop, but half of Curry's income will be turned over to the village, and 10 children in the village will be taught forging techniques.

Ulis, the builder, is responsible for guiding the villagers to repair and renovate the villagers' houses, as well as build new houses, build walls, etc. The monthly salary is 5 Ming silver coins, and he must unconditionally teach and train 10 children in the village to learn construction.

Ulis's first job was to build a 200-meter-long and [-]-meter-wide cattle and sheep shed according to the simple drawings drawn by Ross.

Hailin led a man and two women to be responsible for raising cattle and sheep, and the salary was 2 silver coins per month.

Others follow Luo Si's arrangement to do all the manual labor in the village. Men pay 60 copper coins per month, women 40 copper coins per month, and children over ten years old receive 20 copper coins per month.

Since the kobolds attacked the village chief last winter and lost hundreds of villagers, Stan Village now has a large amount of farmland that has been abandoned because no one has planted it.

After all, agriculture here is still at the stage of animal power and manpower. It is already the limit for an adult to work hard and take care of 40 acres of farmland. Now adding these people can also make those militia families a little easier.

In ten days, under the command of Ulis and with the free help of the villagers, more than 600 square meters of cattle and sheep sheds were built. The way of sheep: breeding in captivity.

A special person is responsible for preparing the green forage, and then regularly feeds, releases water, regularly cleans up the excrement, etc.

Although Hailin has never seen this kind of breeding method, as an expert in raising cattle and sheep for generations, he immediately understood the benefits of raising cattle and sheep in this way.

The smaller range of activities not only reduces the amount of exercise of cattle and sheep to achieve the purpose of rapid fattening, but also can immediately grasp the health status of cattle and sheep. Pregnant and giving birth ewes and lambs can receive timely care, which greatly improves the survival rate of lambs .Regular cleaning of manure greatly reduces the chances of cattle and sheep getting sick.

Later, three female refugees were arranged to clear a large open space in the downwind direction of the village, near the farmland area, where the manure collected from the village, plant ash, garbage, and cattle and sheep manure will be piled up to make organic fertilizer. .

A thick layer of manure, plant ash and other piles are covered with a layer of soil. Such a layer of piles creates an excellent fermentation environment. Fully fermented manure is a strong organic fertilizer.

The land fertilized by organic fertilizer will completely break away from the fallow system, and can increase the yield of crops by at least [-]%.

After arranging these tasks, Los thought of a way to increase food production, although it was time-consuming but once and for all - breeding earthworms.

The movement of earthworms can loosen the soil, increase soil organic matter and improve the structure. Its excrement can also promote acid or alkaline soil to become neutral soil, increase phosphorus and other quick-acting components, make the soil suitable for the growth of crops, and play an important role in agriculture.

A healthy earthworm can turn 6-20 tons of soil in 40 mu of land every year.And because earthworms are rich in protein, they can be used as feed for livestock, poultry and aquaculture to increase production.

As soon as he thought of it, Los immediately asked Ulis to direct the refugees to use large stones to build a deep pit with a length of 10 meters, a width of 2 meters, and a gap of no more than 5 mm between the stones. Up and down the steps.

While Ulis was building the deep pit, Lost deliberately grabbed a dozen long earthworms for the children in the village as samples, and then mobilized the children in the whole village to dig the earthworms and put them in specially prepared containers. Inside the barrel of loose soil.

Five days later, the pit was completed. During this period, with the efforts of dozens of children, ten buckets of goosebump-packed earthworms have been dug.

Fill the deep pit with specially loosened cattle and sheep manure plus straw culture medium to a depth of about 1.5 meters, then pour all the earthworms into it, and finally sprinkle water to wet the medium.

So far the cultivation pond for cultivating earthworms has been completely completed.In the future, as long as you sprinkle some water regularly and add some special soft medium, you can regularly harvest a large number of earthworms.

Mature earthworms have to reproduce once a month, and each time they can reproduce 10-12. Small earthworms can mature and reproduce in four months, so earthworms can grow by about 1 times in a year.

In this cultivation pond of more than 100 cubic meters, even more than 100 million earthworms can survive, so within 2 years, Ross can completely transform all the arable land in Stan Village, and within 5 years, Ross can transform the surrounding area of ​​Stan Village All land within 10 miles.

At that time, with the addition of Luosi's organic fertilizer, the land in Stan Village is not only the most fertile land in the Kingdom of Lorraine, but at least the best land in the Western Regions of the Kingdom, which can increase the villagers' harvest by [-]%.

(End of this chapter)