229 New World encounters herbicides for the first time
However, in the face of this season of nourishment, the more everyone looks, the more worried they become!
For the travelers, the land where plants grow wildly does not seem to be a good thing, and everyone looks at the patches of greenery that have returned to the earth, and does not make a sound of praise, but constantly sighs at the tenacity of the vitality in nature.
Especially when people find that patches of green grass are about to encroach on the land they have worked so hard to cultivate and sow again, people have to face the problem of a century: weeding the land.
Hand weeding?
Are you kidding!
It's impossible, it's impossible in this life!
That's when everyone remembered the benefits of herbicides.
Many people said that they regretted that Anna had cut the herbicide and pesticide aid because of our rail project, but most people believed that herbicides and pesticides were not something that could not be produced in time and space, and that it was acceptable to replace them with the railway project.
That being said, it is obviously neither efficient nor possible to complete a timely job if only a few dozen people do manual weeding of such a large area of land.
More and more people are looking at the approaching patches of greenery and starting to frown, especially the professionals of the chemical industry, who are beginning to urgently discuss various chemical methods of weeding.
Coal coke chemicals can produce herbicides, but obviously not now.
At this time, no one was talking about anything green and pollution-free, since Anna's aid list did not have herbicides and pesticides, but other chemical products were still available.
So Zhao Xihe, Qiao Xiaomu, Gui Xianning and others entered the cave and tossed around, hoping to find substitutes in various ready-made chemical materials.
Finally, Mr. Zhao found a cheap and easy way to make the earth.
Mr. Zhao first approached Mr. Sun and persuaded him to move a large bag of salt and several large buckets of dish soap from the kitchen, and asked everyone to contribute soap and laundry detergent that had been allocated to his name, which were quite a lot of detergents in the supermarket.
Then, under the guidance of Mr. Zhao, everyone mixed it into a strange white liquid according to the ratio of one liter of water, two taels of salt, a small amount of dish soap, laundry detergent and half a bar of soap, and then filled several large diesel barrels and moved to the ground.
Is this a herbicide?
Lao Wang asked suspiciously.
Yes!
Teacher Zhao, Qiao Xiaomu and Gui Xianning replied in unison.
After listening to the formula introduced by everyone, Lao Wang couldn't help but shake his head, and finally sighed for a moment and nodded and said, So, how are you going to use it?
Teacher Zhao immediately replied that half a bucket should be poured on one acre of land! As soon as these words came out, Lao Wang immediately stopped drinking, and Lao Wang said angrily, you are doing this to turn this good land into saline-alkali land!
However, everyone said that if they don't do this, everyone will be tired to death! After showing Lao Wang dozens of pairs of calloused and bloody hands, Lao Wang reluctantly agreed to use a little under the ditch, but by no means half a bucket of an acre of land, but a tenth of a bucket!
At the same time, in order to prevent the spread of weeds into the cultivated land, Lao Wang drew a strip area less than 20 meters wide around the outer edge of the cultivated land as a protective belt, and then told everyone that you can use this herbicide on the protective belt, but you must not use it in other places!
Because next year, we will expand to the outside reclamation!
So on this strip of land, the people used this so-called herbicide to thoroughly water the ground.
After three more days of tossing and turning, everyone found that the effect was very good, and it was obvious that the plants of this island were completely not resistant to chemical products from another world.
The crowd was happy, but Wang expressed some concern, knowing that the so-called herbicide was very destructive to the land, and because of the circulation of groundwater, it was not clear what the consequences would be for nearby crops after application.
But Mr. Zhao assured him that this was only a temporary stopgap measure, and that he would provide real and relatively safe herbicides and pesticides to the farmland in the future......
Although the herbicides have allowed everyone to get through the weeding hurdle, the workload of other field management is still very large.
You must know that this is the workload of serving 200 acres of land and more than 60 acres of vegetable gardens, and the key is that there are only 93 men, women, and children combined.
The most important thing is that many people do not have long-term experience in agricultural production, so there are many problems in the labor process.
Calluses and blood blisters on the feet and hands are not a problem, and almost everyone has experienced them to varying degrees.
There are also various small injuries and pains such as thatched cuts to the arms, feet and necks, mosquito bites, sunburn and peeling, etc., and in those days, people who go to the infirmary every night to see a doctor for physiotherapy have to queue up.
In short, after two months of farm work, it really made everyone complain, and everyone's food was also good every day, but no matter how they ate Haisai, all the people lost weight, and some people actually lost more than ten pounds!
This kind of thing would have been an enviable achievement in the old world, but no one was happy about it in front of me---- it was really uncomfortable to be tired of being a dog.
During this time, there were some high-level liquor and cigarettes in the supermarket that were allocated to individuals, and everyone was reluctant to keep them for consumption, but during this time, the consumption of these two things increased significantly, and those who did not smoke or drink saved up a lot of these supplies, many of which were consumed by the addicts after exchanging them for chocolates, various snacks, candies and other things......
Although the work of the reclamation team is very hard, the work of the road construction team is even more difficult.
After the plenary meeting on August 8, in order to complete the construction of the roadbed before the rainy season arrived, the road construction team also extended the working hours of the day, and now they have breakfast at 7 o'clock in the morning, take the train to the construction site, and then walk to the construction site, and start working at almost 8 o'clock until half past eight in the evening, with only lunch at 12 o'clock and dinner at 18 o'clock for a total of two hours of rest.
Although everyone is young and strong, it is a test of life for those who have never experienced such high-intensity and continuous construction work in their lives.
In contrast, the reclamation team is already "easy", because the characteristics of farm work are uneven busyness, tired into a dog when busy, lazy into a cat when free, and there are moments of rest in farm work, sometimes you can rest your waist, sometimes you can do it slower.
However, the construction site is a continuous operation, almost without interruption, this kind of mechanical monotonous work is a few hours, a long time, all kinds of physical problems appear.
First of all, some members of the road construction team were overworked.
The manifestation is that minor illnesses are constant, and in those days, the number of people who have inexplicably caught a cold every day has increased a lot, and sometimes, more than a dozen people have this mild cold symptom a day.
There is also an inexplicable low-grade fever, sudden stomach discomfort, serious and vomiting, this situation also occurs in the older reclamation team, one day, the old bus working in the field suddenly fainted, in the face of the first serious situation, it really scared everyone, fortunately, the doctors' final diagnosis is overwork, just rest for a while.
However, in the end, this happened to the construction team as well.
First of all, this is also the case among some high school students and science and engineering men who are physically weak.
This was followed by back pain, sluggishness, and loss of appetite in a large number of people, and then some people were emotionally unstable, and the number of quarrels increased, and sometimes even someone who didn't agree to do it, but fortunately, someone persuaded them in time.
In addition, a considerable number of people are depressed, speak very little, and all kinds of meat jokes that can make everyone laugh on the construction site are basically extinct......