Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 151: Unveiling the Dark

The large manure from the removal of the aqua privy toilet and the garbage removed from the garbage pits of each house were eliminated by the biogas digesters at the base. These can be used as fertilizer fermentation and fermentation to prepare a medium for planting out of the soil, but Tagawa is worried that customers and members will have a shadow on the manure, so he still reluctantly uses it as a raw material for the biogas digester, and in the future, the biogas residue will be cleared and used as fertilizer.

When Tagawa was young, big manure was the best farm fertilizer, and there was no one, it was stronger than all kinds of livestock manure, but considering the psychological shadow of the city people, he still gave up. Once the manure has been treated in the digester, the shape and taste will change radically and it will be used as fertilizer without any problems. He works on a similar principle with pig manure.

The fermentation process of the digester loses a small part of the active ingredient in the fertilizer, but in general the loss rate is not too large and is still within an acceptable range. After all, the active ingredients of this kind of organic fertilizer are mainly nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and trace elements in the fertilizer, and the biogas component generated is methane, which is mainly generated by chemical reaction of cellulose, fat and other components in the raw materials, and the methane molecule does not contain these active ingredients in the fertilizer, which has little impact on the fertility of the final biogas residue.

The garbage pond in front of each house is also a classic means of accumulating fertilizer in traditional agriculture. The garbage in the pond is mainly all kinds of kitchen waste, animal manure such as chickens and dogs raised at home, etc., which are fermented in the garbage pond and mixed with various manure and applied to the farmland. But now, this fertilizer is rarely used, and the effect of chemical fertilizer is more labor-intensive than this kind of fertilizer, and the effect of fertilizer has long been abandoned. People working in factories can buy more fertilizer than a household garbage pit can accumulate in a year. The main reason why this garbage pit is still preserved is due to traditional living habits. Now that the garbage pit has been cancelled, although it takes dozens of meters to take out the garbage, the environment in front of the house has been greatly improved, and everyone quickly adapted to this new change. Thinking back to the experience of living in a garbage pit, it seems that I can't write a letter.

The next day, the cattle farm treats the sick cattle. Most of these cattle are parasitic gadfly-like insects that lay eggs under the skin of cattle, and some are infected with intestinal parasites every year. Two veterinarians and three graduate students brought by Professor Zhong treated the cattle with the help of the cattle farm staff.

Cattle with intestinal parasites are given deworming drugs and wait for the worms and eggs to be expelled from their bodies. Last night, the veterinarian tested the feces of these cows, and many asymptomatic cattle were also found in the feces of the eggs, and the final result of the discussion was to give all the cattle preventive medication to clean up the parasites at one time. The cow manure produced during the deworming period will not be used as a medium for earthworms or vegetables, but will be thrown into the digester. The biogas digester can be described as a powerful insecticidal machine, which has a strong killing effect on all kinds of parasites and insect eggs, even if it is a very stubborn tapeworm egg, it can only live in the biogas digester for half a month.

During this period of deworming, veterinarians require that the barn be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected daily to avoid the survival and reinfection of parasites.

Compared with the medication of the herd, the treatment of cattle with insects under the skin is somewhat violent. These cattle with parasites under the skin will bulge out of the skin at the site of the insect parasitism, and there is a small hole in the bulging skin, which is the respiratory hole of the parasite, and the larvae parasitic under the skin of the cow will also drill out of this small hole when they become adults.

The treatment is to clamp the larvae under the cowhide from this small hole with tweezers and pull them out. The diameter of the larvae is much larger than the small holes in the hide, and when pulled out, the cow will feel a lot of pain, will try to dodge, and even attack the veterinarian. Therefore, before the treatment, the limbs and head of the cow should be fixed on a special wooden frame, and veterinary medicine has a special term for this fixation method: Baoding. The meaning of this word is very easy to understand, which is to protect and fix. It is not only to protect the safety of the veterinarian, but also to protect the treated animal from causing harm to itself while struggling.

The parasite taken out from under the cowhide was 5 or 6 millimeters in diameter and nearly two centimeters in length, and it kept wriggling, making Tagawa feel sick to watch. There were more and fewer parasites on each cow, and the largest one had more than a dozen worms removed from it.

After the bugs were removed, the veterinarian applied some antiseptic solution to the wounds, and the treatment was complete, and the cattle were able to recover after a period of recuperation.

After the treatment is completed, the veterinarian advises the workers of the cattle farm to pay more attention to the cattle to see if there are any missing bugs that have not been removed, and once found, the bugs can be taken out according to today's method. In addition, cattle that have just had their worms removed should keep their bodies clean and dry to prevent wound infection.

In the herd, there are five cows that are producing milk, and Tagawa asks that these cows be raised separately and milked every day to maintain the cow's milk production. Because it was under medication, the milk produced was undrinkable and was disposed of along with cow dung. In order to milk the cows, Tagawa purchased a semi-automatic milking machine. All the managers and employees of the cattle farm do not know how to milk cows, and even the two veterinarians and the two experts, Professor Zhong and Lang, who are the technical guides, have not been exposed to the operation of manual milking.

With this milking machine, as long as the four suction openings of the milking machine are fixed to the receding teat/head, the machine can complete the milking operation automatically, which not only saves a lot of labor, but also is more efficient and hygienic than manual milking. The cows quickly adapted to the milking machine, which was much more comfortable than the rough, large hands of the herders who fed them.

Not only that, in order to sell fresh milk, Tagawa also purchased special sterilizers, filling machines, special milk pots and other equipment, and specially determined the fermentation process of yogurt to produce fermented yogurt in the original bottle. Yogurt and fresh milk are served in glass bottles, the bottles are specially customized, the shape is obviously different from the general bottles, and the words "national rhyme" and LOGO are engraved on the bottle wall, which looks very high-end. The production of this bottle was also influenced by Zhou Jiahui's imperial style, and the bottle was also produced by the same factory, under the recommendation of Zhou Jiahui, this craft glass factory, which was originally not very responsive to Tian Chuan, paid great enthusiasm for this bottle with a total of only 5,000 bottles, and made the bottle very exquisite.

Almost all of the milk produced during the period of taking the drug is made into yogurt, which is used as a test material for the yogurt production process. These yogurts cannot be sold to the outside world, and they are drunk a lot by the workers in the factory, and several old professors who are the guiding experts are drinking it, and Tian Chuan himself is also drinking it, so what scruples will those workers have. In fact, two days after taking the medicine, the cow's milk/water could not detect the drug ingredients, which is a report issued by Professor Lang's professional laboratory, and everyone is very relieved, so there is no mental burden when drinking this milk. Although the test results were correct, Tagawa postponed the release of fresh milk and yogurt to a week after taking the drug.

On the first day after the cows arrived, Tagawa posted the information about the upcoming supply of fresh milk on the membership site. By the time it was time to go on sale, members had been looking forward to the milk for a long time, and in the blink of an eye, they had sold out all 600 servings of fresh milk that day. Every time a new product is sold in the base, this situation will occur, and the concept of "base export, must be a high-quality product" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of members.

Tagawa's base is relatively small, and goods such as milk and roosters can never meet the needs of members. Not only can it not meet the demand, but the production is also unstable, like a rooster, it has been out of stock for a long time. The five cows that are currently producing milk, and it is not known when they will be weaned, and there may be new cows calving, but it is certain that they will not be able to meet the needs of the members. It's not that Tagawa refuses to expand/the amount of dairy cows raised, but that the production of feed limits the expansion of the herd. If the cattle farm is turned into a pure dairy farm, it will not satisfy the craving for beef of Boss Tagawa, a foodie, so the number of cows can only be slowly increased.

In view of the huge demand for milk from the members, Tagawa requested the purchase of another batch of cows to increase the daily supply of fresh milk from the current 600 to 2,000. Qi Ligang followed Tian Chuan's request and purchased 12 more cows a week later, and the supply of fresh milk finally basically met the needs of the members. Occasionally, some fresh milk is left surplus and sold as yogurt.

The production of yogurt has not been large, and Tagawa has not expanded the number of cows, so a part of the fresh milk is expressed every day and used to make yogurt. Yogurt is sold in very small quantities every day, with more than 200 bottles and only a few dozen bottles at a time, so members need to be prepared to buy it as soon as it opens*.

Tagawa did not expect that it was precisely because of this scarcity* that the enthusiasm of the members was further boosted, and one member actually signed up for a milk product section dedicated to dairy products. As the moderator of the special edition of dairy products, this member mobilized members to conduct a special analysis of the taste of Guoyun fresh milk and yogurt, and found that the taste of the base milk is obviously much thicker than the mellow sold on the market, which is one of the few products in the base that tastes better than similar products on the market. However, the results of the ingredient test showed that the protein content of the milk in the base was not as high as that of ordinary fresh milk on the market, which made members puzzled.

The members of the Guoyun Club are all elites in the capital, mainly composed of officials, high-level intellectuals and white-collar workers, and after discussion, they did not come to a reasonable conclusion for a long time. It wasn't until later that a university professor majoring in organic chemistry solved the mystery for everyone, and at the same time lifted the lid on a huge shady curtain that covered almost the entire industry.