Zhang Youfu thought for a while: "There is another way, but it is a bit troublesome and cannot be done in a short while. [Read the latest chapter]"
"As long as I get this land, I'm happy to wait a little longer." Wu Nanhai said, as long as it's done before autumn.
"Then you just wait for news from me." Zhang Youfu asked Wu Nanhai for more than two hundred taels of silver, and then wandered around several large fields near the county seat. He spent more than ten days trying to buy 70 acres of paddy fields, and then took The land was returned in exchange for the land deed.
Seeing this result, everyone in the Agricultural Committee couldn't laugh or cry. The price offered by Chuan Chuan Group during several negotiations was already 200 taels of silver. If he didn't want the silver, the Agricultural Committee also proposed that he could exchange it for goods in kind, and the value was not lower than this. All of them were rejected by the old man. , how come he is willing to exchange it for the land deed?
"He just wants to be a landlord, so now he is willing to be a landlord." Zhang Youfu said proudly.
"Aren't we willing to pay? It's different to buy land with money."
"Barbarians have never seen the world, they are just afraid of being deceived." Zhang Youfu said contemptuously - the difference between urban and rural areas is still quite serious.
"So that's it." Wu Nanhai nodded. It seems that this low-income person has his own merits in being able to work as a prostitute in the county for a long time.
"The habits of traditional farmers are really incomprehensible." Ye Yuming said with such emotion at that time.
"Farmers in the past had no experience of the world, were uneducated, were often deceived, and were very wary. That's why it was difficult to do rural work."
According to Zhang Youfu, what is even more difficult to understand is this group of "thieves" - they are powerful and powerful, and they directly occupy the land and the landlord dare not do anything. Even the county government will never do it for such a thing. A pauper goes to offend the thieves.
To put it simply, this method is to win people's hearts, but when Zhang Youfu thought about it, it seemed that it was not that simple.
The land purchased with great effort and cost is to the south of the farm. The Wenlan River has a small backwater area here, forming a large shoal with a large number of reeds. The land is flat, with a small area of undulating hills nearby, and water is easily accessible. After Wu Nanhai and Yang Baoguo made a survey, they felt that it would be more suitable for a formal breeding farm.
The new breeding farm has two breeding farms for livestock and poultry. Wu Nanhai likes coming here very much, not only for work reasons, but also for having a great sense of accomplishment every time he comes here. Especially after the voyage around the island, the channels for obtaining product resources have been further expanded. Bopu has launched regular flights to Changhua and Yulin. A large number of cattle and sheep were transported from Changhua, causing the population to expand rapidly. The number of pigs, everyone's favorite meat, has also expanded. According to his estimation, by next year at least the time-travelers will be able to return to the per capita meat-eating standards of the 21st century cosmic powers.
Wu Nanhai went to the horse pen first. Yang Guobao was recently learning horse riding from Nick - he felt that the bumps on the bicycle's buttocks on the dirt road were too painful, and the seat was so craggy that his perineum hurt.
"I don't want to cause prostate problems because of riding a bicycle. I have a wife." Yang Baogui learned how to ride a horse, and planned to ride a horse when he went out. Nick promised that he could ride a Yunnan horse when he went out as a reward for treating the horse.
When Wu Nanhai went to find him now, Nick told him that Yang Baobao had gone to the poultry farm to supervise the hatchery.
This large hatchery was built in conjunction with Tiandihui’s poultry promotion plan. Artificial egg hatching appeared very early in China and was already very popular in the Ming Dynasty. It is not considered a brand-new time travel technology. However, artificial hatching of eggs is not popular in Lingao. Although chickens, ducks and geese are common local poultry, the scale of breeding is not large, and there is no demand for this.
There are many local methods of artificial egg incubation, the most common ones are the kang incubation method in the north and the tank incubation method in east China. Wu Nanhai is not a farmer, so he still needs to teach Yang Guigui about this matter. He used to go to the countryside to serve farmers and has a lot of experience.
He suggested that the northern kang incubation method should be used. This method has simple equipment and large hatching capacity, and is very suitable for large-scale breeding needs. If you are technically proficient, the hatching rate will be between 8o and 9o%, which is comparable to modern electro-incubation methods. An ordinary Seven Fire Cave Kang incubation workshop can store 2,600 eggs at a time, and can hatch 15,000 eggs per month. Even if it needs to be expanded, it is quite simple and requires almost no modern equipment and materials. ―Compared with fired bricks, adobe bricks are more suitable for hatcheries due to their thermal insulation properties.
When Wu Nanhai came to the construction site, he saw Yang Baoguo giving guidance on the construction site. The newly built hatchery had been slightly improved, with a tile roof and brick-clad exterior walls - after all, in Lingao, it was purely made of adobe. Houses don't last long.
"I always feel it's a bit wasteful." Wu Nanhai looked at this simple little house under construction. He was worried about where to find 2,600 sperm eggs at a time. Because there are few eggs and the embryonic storage period of fertilized eggs is very short, the fertilized eggs collected are all naturally hatched by hens.
"It won't be wasted. Drying work is inevitable during the rainy season. Can this hatchery also serve as a drying room?"
Yang Guoguo advised him not to worry: "The first batch of broods can provide about 200 chicks. It is enough for twenty small farmers. Gradually the batch size will increase. This is a step-by-step process - you want us to When we first moved here, we only had a few chickens? Now there are hundreds. The growth rate is thousands of percent. If we continue to mobilize the masses like this, we may have to expand by the end of the year."
"Take me to see the chicken coop."
"Okay. Let me give them a few words first." Yang Baoguo took a look at the situation on the construction site. The most important fire kang flue has been basically completed - this part is the most important. A well-coiled fire kang saves fuel and transfers heat quickly. . Those who cook badly don't like the heat and smoke. It is also a specialized craft. Of course there are no workers working on the hot pot in Lingao, even among the immigrants. Completely read the operation. Construction according to drawings. He gave instructions to the foreman and took Wu Nanhai to the newly built chicken coop.
The new chicken coop still adopts the free-range farming method with bamboo fences and fishing nets, and climbing vegetables are planted as shelter for the chicken coop. The new chicken house enables separate housing. The breeder chickens are housed separately, and the laying hens, chicks and adult chickens each have their own space and do not interfere with each other. Convenient to add different feeds according to their status. Finally, there is the Bronze Turkey, which has now grown to a dozen or so.
About two hundred chickens are moving in the vast space under the cage net. He seems to be in good spirits. The ground had just been sprinkled with water and smelled of lime.
"Chicken manure is cleaned regularly here every day, and then lime water is sprinkled for disinfection - there is nothing we can do, the density is still too high. We have to prevent diseases. Besides, chicken manure is also feed, so it cannot be wasted."
"We don't raise fish, do we?"
Chickens have short digestive tracts and their feces contain many nutrients. Wu Nanhai knows that there is a kind of circular agriculture that raises chickens next to fish ponds and feeds the chicken manure to the fish.
"Feed the pigs."
"It's so disgusting." Thinking about the smell of chicken manure, Wu Nanhai felt bored.
"Pigs really like to eat after fermentation." Yang Guogui said with a wry smile, "To be honest, I don't like this feeding method either. In the future, when there is enough feed, I can use it as fertilizer."
Wu Nanhai followed him to the duck shed again. Ducks are actually much more profitable than chickens in poultry farming. Ducks are omnivorous poultry, able to forage on their own during grazing, are tolerant of rough feeding, and have a high feed conversion rate. During the first period of rice planting in spring, Fashilu also experimented with raising ducks in the rice fields, allowing the ducks to forage in the rice fields. Not only could they make use of the snails, small fish and shrimps in the rice fields, but they could also eliminate pests and Weed. Fashilu planned to wait until the rice in the rice fields was harvested before driving the ducks in to clear the fields and eat the grains and scattered rice left in the fields. This is much more convenient and thorough than manual cleaning. There is also a nice term in Japan called "duck rice farming", which is a retro style of pure natural rice farming.
The duck shed is located next to the bend of the river. A bamboo fence separates the bend from the river, and there is a gate that can be opened and closed. To prevent the duck from running away on its own. The reeds here are dense, the river water is rich in nutrients, and there are a large number of aquatic animals such as snails that ducks love to eat along the river bends. The Agricultural Committee found a duck farmer among the immigrants who went out to herd ducks every day. He also fished for snails and clam shells, smashed them and used them as feed for the ducks.
"Don't step on it." Yang Guogui reminded him not to step on the grass on the river beach. The ducks may have laid their eggs randomly in it, and in the evening the duck keepers will go around and pick up all the eggs.
"We now have more than 200 ducks and more than 30 geese. Ducks and geese save much more feed than chickens. In addition to egg poultry that need to supplement protein feed, a large number of them use green feed. The egg production rate is very high. It’s not bad. It can also be used as a breeding target for promotion.”
The ducks are local native ducks and Peking ducks brought from modern time and space. Yang Guogui planned to cross them to see the effect. As for the goose traverser, he did not bring them because China's native goose breeds are recognized as superior breeds. He simply bought a few from the market - the most common lion-headed geese in South China.
Wu Nanhai said: "Raising ducks and geese both require water, and the breeding conditions are limited, so they are not as easy to promote as chickens. Besides, duck eggs and goose eggs are not popular. Everyone still likes eggs. If duck eggs are not made into preserved eggs or salted eggs, some people are willing to do so. Want to eat? Have you ever eaten goose eggs?"
“I’ve eaten bad goose eggs before, and they tasted good.” Yang Baogui recalled the delicious taste of bad goose eggs back then.
"Poultry just grows fast. It would be great if pigs could also have such a high reproductive efficiency."
"The reproductive rate of pigs is not bad. Sows can give birth to 20 piglets in two litters a year. If they are well raised, the survival rate is still very high." Yang Baogui said, "The biggest problem is the lack of sows.!~!
