Urban Sims

After his parents left, how to feed himself and his three-year-old sister became the most realistic problem in front of Zhou Ming.

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

It happened that after the plague, the population of the Grand Collar was reduced by more than half, and the free land increased. The butler Bunod could n’t resist Zhou Ming ’s repeated pleading, and the other party agreed to let him not far from the town ’s river. In a piece of fallow land, ten acres were considered fertile as his arable land.

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

Is not the same as the eastern farming mode mainly combining farmland and mulberry. Western agricultural civilization is farming by combining farmland and pasture.

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 are many vacant lands. The combination of farming and animal husbandry can produce staple food for human consumption, and on the other hand, it can also produce a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock.

These animals can not only provide sufficient animal power, but also provide a lot of meat, milk and fur, which meets most of the needs of people in food and clothing.

Not only that, the pasture that was eaten by livestock, and the manure left by the livestock is also a good source of fertilizer for the land, and it has a better fertilizer effect.

From these points of view, the combination of farming and animal husbandry in the West is more time- and labor-saving than the combination of agriculture and mulberry in the East, which requires intensive cultivation and consumes a lot of manpower.

After all, in an ancient agricultural civilization with seven cows, the more animals there are, the more time and effort it takes to farm the fields.

What's more, these animals can also provide a lot of meat, even in bad weather, the year of poor food crops, there will not be a large number of people starving to death (of course, these people mainly refer to the owners of animals -Lords).

However, the combination farming model of Oriental agriculture and mulberry is not without its advantages.

For example, by intensive cultivation and reasonable application of manure, the average acre yield of eastern agriculture can be two to four times that of western agriculture, and the average seed return rate can reach 10-20.

Zhou Ming has figured it out in his mind. After paying 60% of the land rent, he probably needs to plant 5-6 acres of land to feed himself and his sister.

The premise is that the average yield per mu of these land can reach about 500 kg.

This is a grand collar with an average barley yield of less than 180 kg, which is almost an astronomical figure ...

Zhou Ming is very confident!

Because in the copy of "Zhang Ergou", he planted for hundreds of years, at least there are more than a dozen methods that can increase the yield of crops here.

For example, how to dig deep, how to interplant, how to maintain the distance between crops, how to observe the weather, how to keep water and keep warm, how to control pests and diseases, how to quickly weed and so on.

The most important thing is how to apply fertilizer reasonably.

Fertilizer is one of the three most important agricultural treasures (water, fertilizer, and seed). Any farmer who has planted land knows what fertilizer means to food output.

Simply!

Or is the basis of high yield of food!

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

In this world, although people have a certain vague understanding of the importance of animal manure, they have not paid attention to excavating manure pits, systematically collecting human and animal manure, and then returning it to the field after anaerobic fermentation. 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.

Even the lord knight who lives in the tall castle, and the princess king who lives in the magnificent king city, it is such a mess when it is convenient.

Zhou Ming intends to collect these manures that can be picked up everywhere and put them in the pits to ferment for a while, and intends to use them when they are farming!

Uh ...

For more than half a month.

The men, women and children in the town of Rose found a very funny thing.

The son of Derek ’s family, Ryan, was carrying a wooden barrel, looking for the dirty and unpleasant feces everywhere in the town, and cheerfully collected them together, and then buried them like a baby in the big pit at his door. Every day.

There was a lot of talk in the town. Was Derek ’s son Ryan enchanted by the witch, or eaten by the devil, so that he could do such ridiculous things.

"This poor child, the parents all went to the arms of the Father, and no one cares about him. He even became interested in this kind of thing ..." Aunt Susan of the neighbor couldn't help wiping her tears.

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

"Shit Ryan, **** Ryan, shoveled the stool and buried it in the pit, he fell into the pit next year, his name is Ryan!" The mischievous little fart children in the town sang their self-directed songs around Zhou Ming 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 large bucket of excrement, tax officer Dirac was laughing at the onlookers. In the middle, angered him out.

"You are not rare, I am afraid that others will rush to ask for it in the future." Zhou Ming struggled to carry the bucket of dung and hummed Xiaoqu back home.

Uh ...

After the feces in the town were collected, they were allowed to ferment in the pit, and Zhou Ming began to prepare for spring sowing.

He invited the kind Uncle O'Neill to help him, according to his request, with the help of a heavy plow pulled by six cattle, he helped him plow six acres of land in the morning.

Then, he chose seeds, sowed, and leveled the land. Because he was weak, he spent six weeks on the six acres of land.

Another four acres of land, because it was originally a fallow field, can grow grass without seeding.

After the seeds were planted, the next two months became his busiest days. UU Reading Book www. uukanshu.com

The dung in the big pit at the door of the house was dug out by him, and it was exposed on the ground for a few days until it all turned into a black powdery solid.

Then, he went to the forest outside the town again. Under some old tree roots, he dug some humus soil. There are many humus bacteria in the humus soil, which can accelerate the decomposition rate of organic matter.

Furthermore, after fermentation and drying of human and animal feces, it will still have a certain acidity, which is not conducive to the growth of barley suitable for planting in a neutral soil environment. He also dug some river mud from the river to neutralize.

Human and animal manure solid powder + humus + alkaline river mud, Zhou Ming mixed according to a certain ratio, just like this, the organic fertilizer with strong fertility, easy crop absorption and strong timeliness is completed.

This organic fertilizer was formulated by Zhou Ming after hundreds of years of exploration. In the ancient agricultural civilization society, it was made the ultimate fertilizer with the widest source of raw materials and the most significant effect of fertilizer land!

Even on an extremely barren land, under normal weather conditions, as long as this fertilizer is applied, a bumper harvest can be guaranteed!

"Unfortunately, if I can get out of this town, go outside and find some ore containing rare elements, grind these ores into powder, and add it to the" ultimate compound fertilizer of rare mineral powder "made by this fertilizer, this Planting fertilizer, the fertility level will be raised to a new level, and it is not a myth to produce a thousand jin per mu ... "

However, even if there is no rare mineral powder, relying on this complete version of the ultimate organic fertilizer to achieve the goal of 500 kg per mu, it is not too easy.

The next day, Zhou Ming applied the "strongest manure" he prepared to the farmland, and within a few days, he saw that the wheat seedlings in his field were significantly higher than the wheat seedlings in the next field by half a centimeter. Later, his heart was full of self-confidence and confidence!