Urban Sims

Chapter 14 The Strongest Manure

After his parents left, how to support himself and his three-year-old sister became the most realistic problem facing Zhou Ming.

As the son of a farmer, Zhou Ming's only choice is to be a farmer who makes a living by farming.

It just so happened that after this plague, the population of Grandland decreased by more than half, and the vacant land increased. Butler Bunode couldn't bear Zhou Ming's repeated pleading, and the other party finally agreed to let him live in a place not far from the town's river. In a piece of fallow land, he chose ten acres of fairly fertile land as his cultivated land.

With ten acres of land, Zhou Ming has his own plan for how to plant the ten acres.

Unlike the Eastern farming model, which mainly combines farmland and mulberry trees, Western agricultural civilization uses a combination of farmland and pastures for farming.

That is, about half of the land is used to grow barley, wheat, rye, oats and other food crops, and about half of the land is used to grow peas, pastures, and cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock.

The population in the west is small, and there is a lot of free land. Its planting mode of combining agriculture and animal husbandry can produce staple food for people on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also produce a large number of livestock such as cattle, sheep, and horses.

These livestock can not only provide sufficient animal power, but also provide a large amount of meat, milk and fur, which meets most of people's needs for food and clothing.

Not only that, the pastures that have been eaten by livestock and the manure left by livestock are also a good source of fertilizer for the land, which has a good effect of fertilizing the field.

From these aspects, the western planting mode of combining agriculture and animal husbandry is much more time-saving and labor-saving than the eastern planting mode of combining agriculture and mulberry, which requires intensive cultivation and consumes a lot of manpower.

After all, in the ancient agricultural civilization where a cow was worth seven dings, more livestock means less time and effort in farming.

What's more, these livestock can also provide a large amount of meat. Even in the bad weather and the harvest of food crops, there will not be a large number of people starving to death (of course, these people mainly refer to the owners of livestock. — the lords).

However, the Eastern farming and mulberry planting mode is not without its advantages.

For example, relying on intensive cultivation and rational application of manure, the average yield per mu of Eastern agriculture can be two to four times the average yield per mu of Western agriculture, and the average seed return rate can reach 10-20.

Zhou Ming calculated in his own mind that after paying 5% of the land rent, he would probably need to plant 6-[-] mu of land to support himself and his sister.

The premise is that the average yield per mu of these lands can reach about 450 jin.

This is almost an astronomical figure in Granville where the average yield of barley per mu is less than 120 catties...

Zhou Ming is very confident!
Because in the copy of "Zhang Ergou", he has planted the land for hundreds of years, and he has at least a dozen methods to increase the yield of the crops here.

For example, how to plow deeply, how to interplant, how to keep the distance between crops, how to observe the weather, how to keep water and heat preservation, how to prevent and control diseases and insect pests, how to quickly weed and so on.

The most important thing is how to fertilize properly.

Fertilizer is one of the most important links among the three treasures of agriculture (water, fertilizer, and seeds). Any farmer who has planted the land knows what fertilizer means for food production.

fundamental!

In other words, it is the basis of high grain yield!

Under the condition that the two factors of water and seeds do not change much, 90% of the increase in agricultural production is achieved by fertilizers.

In this world, although people have a certain vague understanding of the importance of livestock manure, they have not yet paid attention to the excavation of cesspools, the planned collection of human and animal manure, anaerobic fermentation, and then returning to the fields. practice.

In daily life, people in this era urinate and defecate everywhere. Human and animal feces can be seen everywhere in front of and behind the house. The smelly place has become a hotbed of plague.

Even the lords and knights living in tall castles, and the kings and princesses living in the gorgeous royal city, would drag around like this when it was convenient.

Zhou Ming intends to collect these feces that can be picked up everywhere, put them in the cesspit to ferment, and plan to put them to great use when farming!

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In the next half a month.

The men, women and children in Qiangwei Town discovered a very funny thing.

Ryan, the son of the Derek family, actually carried a wooden barrel, looking for those dirty and smelly feces everywhere in the town, happily collected these feces, and then buried them in the big pit in front of his house like a treasure , I enjoy it every day.

There was a lot of discussion in the town, whether Derek's son Ryan was bewitched by a witch, or his brain was eaten by a devil, so that he did such absurd and bizarre things.

"This poor child, whose parents have gone to the embrace of God the Father, and who is left alone, has become interested in this kind of thing..." Aunt Susan, the neighbor, couldn't help wiping away tears.

"Yeah, but we can't help them. I already have two children, Tom and Jerry, and two more...hey..." The kind-hearted Uncle O'Neill sighed helplessly.

"Shi Ryan, shit Ryan, shoveled shit and buried a big pit, and fell into the shit pit next year, his name is Ryan!" The mischievous kids in the town sang around Zhou Ming and sang their own song the ballad.

"Go away, you crazy boy, don't bring this kind of thing to me in the future!" When Zhou Ming came to the tax office with a big bucket of manure to pay taxes, tax officer Dirac laughed from the onlookers , angrily kicked him out.

"You don't care about it. I'm afraid that others will rush to ask for it in the future." Zhou Ming carried the bucket of dung with all his strength, hummed a little song and went home.

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After almost all the excrement in the town was collected and allowed to ferment in the cesspit, Zhou Ming began preparations for spring sowing.

He asked the kind Uncle O'Neill to help him plow six mu of land in one morning with the help of a heavy plow pulled by six oxen according to his request.

Then there is selection, sowing, and leveling of the land. Because of his small size and weak strength, he has been busy with the six acres of land for a full week.

The other four acres of land, because it was originally fallow land, can grow grass without sowing.

After the seeds were planted, the next two months or so became his busiest days.

He dug out the excrement in the big pit in front of the house, put it on the ground and exposed it to the sun for a few days until it turned into a black powdery solid.

Then, he went to the forest outside the town and dug some humus soil under some old tree roots. There are many humus bacteria in the humus soil, which can speed up the decomposition of organic matter.

In addition, because human and animal manure is fermented and dried, it still has a certain amount of acidity, which is not conducive to the growth of barley that is suitable for planting in a neutral soil environment. He also dug some river mud from the river to neutralize it.

Human and animal manure solid powder + humus soil + alkaline river mud, Zhou Ming is mixed according to a certain ratio, and in this way, an organic fertilizer with strong fertility, easy to absorb by crops, and strong timeliness is completed.

This kind of organic fertilizer was formulated by Zhou Ming after hundreds of years of exploration. In the ancient agricultural civilization society, it was made into the ultimate fertilizer with the widest source of raw materials and the most obvious effect on fertilizing the land!
Even in an extremely barren land, under normal weather conditions, as long as this kind of fertilizer is applied, a bumper harvest can be guaranteed!

"It's a pity, if I can get out of this small town, go outside to find several kinds of ores containing rare elements, grind these ores into powder, and add them to this fertilizer to make 'rare mineral powder ultimate compound fertilizer', this Planting fertilizers, the fertility level will be raised to a new level, and the yield per mu is not a myth..."

However, even if there is no rare mineral powder, relying on this complete version of the ultimate organic fertilizer, it is not too easy to achieve the target of 450 catties per mu.

The next day, after Zhou Ming spread the "strongest manure" he prepared on the farmland, within a few days, he saw that the wheat seedlings in his field were obviously half a centimeter taller than those in the neighboring field Finally, his heart was full of self-confidence and confidence!

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