"In the future, after the county's grain output increases, I will directly manufacture compound full-price feed and sell it to farmers, without the farmers having to prepare it themselves. [Read full text]" Wu Nanhai has great ambitions, "This can further increase the output. Reduce technical difficulty and make promotion easier.”
As he said that, Wu Nanhai rode a 28-barrel pole and took Wan Lihui to a corner of the farm, where a whole piece of land had been leveled. Rows of small trees were planted on all sides, and drainage ditches were dug.
The most conspicuous thing is that there are many large baskets piled up not far from the flat ground. Although they are covered with many straw curtains, they still emit a pungent stench. Rotten liquid oozed from the ground, and flies were flying happily on it.
At a glance, Wan Lihui saw his brother Wan Lihuang wearing a straw hat, sitting boredly in a straw shed, swatting away flies from time to time.
Wan Lihui covered his nose and asked, "Is it so smelly?"
Wu Nanhai didn't seem to care and pushed the car against the tree:
"Xiao Wan, this earthworm farm will be your brothers' responsibility from now on."
"Okay." Wan Lihui thought. Okay, this smelly and dirty job falls on us again - is it because we are farmers? He thought sadly and angrily that his dream of coming to this time and space was to play with guns freely. Now that he has no guns, he has completely returned to his hometown to work.
Although I think so, I can't just take it for granted and say that I will resolutely complete the tasks assigned by the organization.
Artificial breeding of earthworms is a new agricultural technology. The main purpose is to provide protein feed for livestock, poultry, fish, etc. at a lower cost, while simultaneously processing various organic waste, turning waste into fertilizer, and eliminating environmental pollution from organic waste. It can also improve soil fertility to a certain extent.
The earthworms Wu Nanhai plans to breed are red earthworms, which are a species commonly used in the earthworm breeding industry. They are dung earthworms. They like to eat all kinds of livestock manure. They have strong fertilization properties and are suitable for artificial breeding.
"Look, these are the red earthworms we are going to raise." Wu Nanhai opened the wooden box, and inside there were several purple-red earthworms measuring 90 to 150 millimeters squirming.
"This thing is easy to raise, as long as the feed is prepared well." Wu Nanhai led them to the basket with a stinking smell. .
“Earthworm feed,” he said, “comes from a wide range of sources. Basically, organic waste can be used as long as it is non-toxic and disease-free. For example, livestock and poultry manure, plants, peels, bagasse, rotten fruits, etc. Red earthworms like it best. It's rotten fruits and rotten vegetable leaves - they like the sweet and sour taste."
"Rotten fruits are rare here -" Wan Lihui thought that since Wu Nanhai launched a comprehensive fertilizer plan, it seemed that no organic matter could escape his clutches. He wondered how he planned to distribute the organic waste to earthworms. I don’t know what’s in that big pit, it stinks like hell.
"Rotten vegetable leaves are also fine. There are also wild fruits," Wu Nanhai seemed to have thought about it for a long time. "Leizhou will ship us a few ships of pineapple rice - there are many of these things there, as well as sugarcane bagasse." As he said, He pulled down the curtain covering the basket.
In the basket were rotting pineapples and a lot of sugarcane bagasse. The sweet, sour and smelly smell made him cover his nose.
"These must be composted as soon as possible." Wu Nanhai frowned.
Organic matter used as feed must be fully fermented before it can be used. Earthworms are omnivorous annelids. These organic wastes must be fermented before they can be eaten and utilized, otherwise earthworms will die in large numbers. So in fact, one of the main tasks of Wanjia brothers is to ferment compost.
Wu Nanhai personally took a shovel and shoveled out all kinds of organic waste inside to demonstrate composting.
Before fermentation, the livestock and poultry manure must be sprinkled with water and mashed. Crop straw and rice straw are first cut into short strips with a hoe. Rotten fruits and sugarcane bagasse can be used directly. After the pile is completed, water it, mix it evenly, and make it fully moist, and then pile it on the ground to a height of one meter. The pile of materials should be loose and not compacted, which is conducive to the reproduction of high-temperature bacteria. Then sprinkle water fully, and the moisture content will be between 5o-6o%.
After the feed is piled up, it is covered with plastic sheeting to maintain heat and moisture. We couldn't get high-end stuff like large pieces of plastic sheeting here, so we used straw curtains instead. Then sprinkle water on it to keep the straw mat moist.
"After three or four days of accumulated organic waste, the temperature inside can rise to between 5o-6o." Wu Nanhai opened his handbag and took out a strong object wrapped with straw rope. He opened it carefully and found something inside. It is a huge glass rod - this is the latest alcohol thermometer produced by the glass factory. It looks ugly like a vibrator, which is enough to make otakus endlessly daydream.
"Thermometer, you should monitor the temperature of the compost every day. Too low or too high a temperature is not suitable. You can turn the compost pile once every half a month and add water. After three or four turns, the compost should be: black Brown, odorless, soft and non-sticky. It’s ready to use.”
Wan Lihui watched as Wu Nanhai opened a small pile, reached in with his hand and grabbed a handful of decomposed feed and came out: "That's it."
This action convinced him: Yes, this is what an agricultural technician should look like.
Then Wu Nanhai took them to make earthworm beds, piled the decomposed feed into ridges with a width of 80 cm and a length of 200 to 300 cm, and then watered them. Finally he poured the earthworms into the wooden box. The earthworms burrowed into the feed almost immediately.
"If you refuse to go in, it means that the feed is not well decomposed." Wu Nanhai said, "This batch is a batch of seed worms brought with the ship. There are only a few dozen. Under normal circumstances, each earthworm bed can be inoculated with a thousand. Probably. It will take three to four months to reach 15,000 per square meter, and you can harvest it at this time. Soon the earthworms can be used as feed, and the vermicompost can also be used as feed for fish and shrimp, and can also be used as fertilizer."
Wu Nanhai gave him another mimeographed booklet titled "Earthworms and Fly Maggot Breeding Techniques", with the words "Internal information for the exclusive use of the Committee of Agriculture" printed on it.
"Earthworm farming is relatively simple. The main thing is to keep warm, moisturize and ventilate, and the other is to process feed."
"If we breed like this, it will take at least a quarter to form mass production capabilities. Is it too late?"
"There's enough time," Wu Nanhai said, "Our loan scale will be small at the beginning - there are not so many chicks, and the demand for formula feed will not be large."
After Wu Nanhai finished explaining, he gave him a list of items, which were all the tools needed for cultivating earthworms, such as rakes and shovels, as well as several masks from pharmaceutical factories.
"These are in your name. You can collect the masks whenever you need them - labor protection must be done, and farm tools and other things must be taken care of."
Then he got on his bicycle and drove away. The Wan brothers sat beside Earthworm's bed and looked at each other.
"Brother, didn't you say that you can shoot the Japanese with guns when you come to this place?" Wan Lihuang looked at his brother, "I wonder why we are required to do farm work all day long..."
"This-" Wan Lihui was speechless. This reality is far different from casually shooting Japanese pirates with guns. "Let's build a new countryside first."
"Then why do we come here to build? We could have just gone back to our hometown to build..."
"There are so many reasons!" Wan Lihui finally couldn't help it anymore, "Go to the compost pile!"
The Wan brothers then started the work of building a new countryside in a new time and space.
Wu Nanhai rode his bicycle leisurely through the field ridges, and from time to time he met his farm workers on the road. Everyone has become very accustomed to this kind of "iron wheeled cart". No one came to watch. They just stood respectfully and waited for him to pass by. As usual, Wu Nanhai wants to say hello to the farmers and workers. This is not a sign of being "close to the people", but it is because he is generous by nature and has always been so.
Now he did not return to the office at the farm, but went to the newly built breeding farm.
In the past, the breeding farm was only a small part of the farm, basically a courtyard farming model. Subsequently, through war seizures, trade and other means, the number of livestock and poultry continued to increase. In addition, in the spring, under the guidance of professional veterinarians like Yang Guowei, the Committee of Agriculture launched a large-scale artificial insemination campaign - with remarkable results, it is obvious that the population will further expand by early autumn in Xia. The Council of Agriculture decided to establish permanent breeding farms before then.
The breeding farm is located near the horse stable originally built for Nick. In fact, the Agricultural Committee has been interested in this land for a long time, and when they built the horse stable for Nick, they thought about buying it together.
However, there is actually a piece of land in this large piece of wasteland, about 200 acres in size, that has been planted with some peanuts, but it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.
For unowned land, you only need to go to the county government to go through the formalities and get the title deed for a little money. However, it took a lot of time to negotiate with the landowner. This landowner was a single-minded person. Wu Nanhai followed When Zhang Youfu went to visit him, he couldn't believe that this man was actually a landlord - the house he lived in had a thatched roof. Although he is as poor as an ordinary small farmer, the landlord still refuses to sell this piece of land that he does not farm and cannot afford to farm. It is said that if he sells it, he is no longer a landlord. In order to maintain this false reputation, he was determined not to sell it. Negotiations were made many times but to no avail. Knowing this, Dugu proposed and even planned to use his police team to seize the property. Zhang Youfu suggested that if the time traveler does not want to do it himself, he can forge the land deed, and then go through Master Wang's method and spend one hundred taels of silver to go to the county government to file a lawsuit - he is sure to win.
"No, no." Wu Nanhai shook his head upon hearing this. He was unwilling to do this kind of collusion with the government and bullying others from the bottom of his heart. Everyone also feels that this method is too dirty and seriously damages the image of the Cross-Travel Group - the death of the Ming Dynasty is a matter of the Ming Dynasty. We are currently in the primary stage of the revolution, and the image of Wei Guangzheng must be maintained! ~!
