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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 make 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. From a piece of fallow land, ten acres of fairly fertile land were selected as his farming land.

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

Unlike the Eastern farming model, which mainly combines farmland and mulberry trees, Western agricultural civilization combines farmland and pasture 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 excrement left by livestock are also a good source of fertilizer for the land and have a good fertilizing effect.

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 one cow carried seven dings on the head, more livestock meant 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. ——Lords).

However, the Oriental combined farming and mulberry planting model 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 mind that after paying 60% of the land rent, he would probably need to plant 5-6 acres of land to support himself and his sister.

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

This is an almost astronomical figure in Glenland, where the average barley yield per mu is less than 120 kilograms...

Zhou Ming is very confident!

Because in the copy of "Zhang Ergou", he has been farming for hundreds of years and has at least a dozen ways to increase the yield of 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 for high grain yield!

When the two factors of water and seeds do not change much, 90% of the increase in agricultural production is achieved through 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 who live in tall castles and the kings and princesses who live in gorgeous royal cities still mess around like this when they need convenience.

Zhou Ming plans to collect these feces that can be picked up everywhere and put them in the manure pit to ferment. He plans to put them to great use when farming!

…

In the next more than half a month.

The men, women, and children in Rose Town discovered something very funny.

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 , 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 of songs.

"Go away, 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 dung to pay taxes, the tax officer Dirac laughed from the onlookers. , angrily kicked him out.

"If you don't care, I'm afraid that others will rush for it in the future." Zhou Ming struggled to carry the bucket of dung and went home humming a little tune.

…

After almost all the feces from all over the town were collected and allowed to ferment in the manure pits, Zhou Ming began preparations for spring sowing.

He asked the kind-hearted Uncle O'Neill to help him. According to his request, with the help of a heavy plow pulled by six oxen, he helped him plow six acres of land in one morning.

Then there was seed selection, sowing, and land leveling. Because he was small and weak, he was busy working on these six acres of land for a full week.

The other four acres of land were originally fallow land and could grow pasture without sowing seeds.

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

He dug out the excrement in the big pit in front of his house and left it on the ground in the sun for several days until it turned into a black powdery solid.

Then, he went to the forest outside the town and dug out some humus soil under the roots of some old trees. There were many humus bacteria in this humus soil, which could speed up the decomposition of organic matter.

In addition, because after human and animal manure is fermented and dried, it will still contain a certain 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.

After Zhou Ming mixed the solid powder of human and animal manure + humus soil + alkaline river mud according to a certain proportion, the organic fertilizer with strong fertility, easy absorption by crops and strong timeliness was completed.

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

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

"It's a pity. If I could get out of this town, go out and find some ores containing rare elements, grind these ores into powder, and add them to this fertilizer to make the 'rare mineral powder ultimate compound fertilizer', this By planting fertilizer, the fertility level will be raised to a new level, and the yield of a thousand kilograms per mu is no longer a myth..."

However, even if there is no rare mineral powder, it is not easy to achieve the goal of 450 kilograms per mu with this complete version of the ultimate organic fertilizer.

The next day, Zhou Ming spread the "strongest manure" he prepared into the farmland. Within a few days, he saw that the wheat seedlings in his own field were obviously half a centimeter taller than the wheat seedlings in the field next door. Finally, his heart was filled with confidence and confidence!

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