In the Atlantic, a Kirk sailing ship is cleaving the waves. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info It's a ship coming back from the island of Grenada. Since Marlin gathered all the warships, the only way to deal with the colonies was to use the Kirk galleon. Fortunately, there were no pirates in the Americas in this era. Because, gold and silver in the Americas have not yet been developed.

The boat was loaded with rice and ginger, a total of 5 bags of rice and 1 bag of ginger, each weighing 100 pounds. This fall, Grenada also had a bumper harvest...... No, there is no season on the island of Grenada, and you can harvest in all seasons. It's just that there happened to be a bumper harvest in the fall.

Although the sugarcane was also harvested, all of the sugarcane was used to grow new sugarcane seedlings. Therefore, this time there was no sugarcane back, let alone sucrose. However, through seedling cultivation, George Sr. expanded the sugarcane planting area from the original two acres to 200 acres. As you can imagine, next year will surely be a good year.

The only problem was that there were few colonists and there was not enough manure......

Yes, there is not enough feces. With fewer people, less excrement and fewer raw materials for making manure. When the time comes, there will be less fertilizer. So, old George scratched his head a little. In order to get enough feces, George Sr. also took the initiative to help build a lot of toilets in the large courtyard where the Bucas lived. Every few days, people would be sent to the Bucas compound to collect manure and transport it to the fertilizer factory.

But this is not enough, because the cultivated area has expanded, but the population has not grown. Therefore, George Sr. sent the ship that transported the ploughing cattle back to the European mainland, and asked Marin for guidance. Because, old George believes that as Marin, who has been instructed by Daxian, there must be a way......

Captain Bald Aben led the Kirk galleon to Aemden and immediately disembarked with 5 sacks of rice and a sack of ginger to Aurich.

Seeing Ben coming, Marin was very happy and hurriedly pulled him to ask about the situation in Grenada.

"My lord, the situation on the island of Grenada is very good at the moment, the arable land has expanded a lot, and the timber has piled up into mountains and cannot be used. Moreover, during the year, Governor George also led his warriors, repelled 5 Carib attacks, and captured 100 slaves. However, Governor George lacked shackles, and asked me to send another 500 shackles when I returned. ”

In the case of an urgent shortage of population, old George also had an idea and thought of a way to capture the prisoners. Those cannibal Caribbean warriors were also captured by George Sr. 100 prisoners. Only, the lack of shackles that limit them. At present, old George did not let them work, so he locked them up and raised them. What are you doing? Collect feces ...... Because of the ferocious temperament of these Caribbean prisoners of war, old George did not dare to let them out to work for the time being, and did not dare to drive them until they were shackled. After all, they're all cannibals......

"Is there anything missing over there?" Marin asked with concern.

"Master George said something inexplicable to me......" Ben touched his bare head, incomprehensible.

He said...... What is most lacking on the island of Grenada is manure...... "Aben is a fisherman, he doesn't know the role of manure in agriculture, and Marin deliberately blocked the news, so he doesn't understand and feels very confused.

"What? Lack of feces? Marin was confused at first, but quickly reacted.

He understood that there must have been a lot of arable land on the island, but the amount of manure was limited, and everyone pulled it every day, so the fertilizer was not enough. Unlike the native, Marin got a lot of immigrants to come and get enough manure. Even, those tens of thousands of Polish cattle produce a large amount of cow dung every day......

"Yes, Niu...... And horses and sheep...... No, there are pigs...... They are all good hands at pulling manure......"

In the blink of an eye, Marin thought of a countermeasure......

People don't produce enough feces, right? Let's develop animal husbandry at the same time! Raise more livestock and let the livestock pull together, won't there be enough manure?

Marin began to think about raising cattle, but the cycle of raising cattle was too long, and the growth of the herd was too slow. The fewer cows, the less manure is produced. Finally, Marin thought of raising pigs......

On the island of Grenada, the four seasons are like summer, and there is no shortage of green plants. Therefore, pigs are raised there, and tender hogweed can be fed all year round, which is better than in temperate regions. Of course, this is the food condition. The only problem is that it is too hot over there to prevent the pigs from dying of heat. Fortunately, there are no poisonous insects in Grenada and will not bite pigs......

Moreover, pigs grow fast and reproduce quickly. Eat more every day, and naturally eat more pig manure. At that time, pig manure is also a good fertilizer......

Ma Lin remembers that when he was a child, the farmers in the village had not yet set off a craze for part-time work, and at that time, the villagers were at home all day long tending to the family's few acres of land. At that time, almost every family had pigs. They often build a large pool with a rainproof roof to preserve pig manure and human manure scooped out of the latrine. Before planting the crops, the mixed fermented manure is dug out of the pond and lowered into the field as a base fertilizer by a pallet cart, and then the land is plowed. And because they eat more, the feces produced by two pigs is definitely not less than that produced by a family of five.

Therefore, raising more pigs can definitely solve the problem of insufficient manure. But the premise is that there should be a good grain harvest. Otherwise, what will be beaten into bran and fed to the pigs? It was okay in ancient China, but not in ancient Europe. In ancient Europe, the grain production was too low, and the wheat bran was eaten by people, and it was not used as pig feed. Of course, there is no problem in Grenada, where there is green grass all year round, and pigs can eat pigweed.

After making up his mind, Marin took Ben by the hand and commanded:

"Well, Ben, after you have rested for a while, you will make another trip to Grenada and send 300 pigs over. Of course, if you send 300 big fat pigs, the amount of feed consume......d every day is amazing, and you may not have enough on board. But sending 300 piglets is different. The piglets are small in size and eat less, and although they will grow up after a few months of sailing, they will eat much less than simply taking the big pigs over.

These piglets are not castrated, but used for breeding. So, more sows and fewer boars. When it arrives in the ground, it will be used for large-scale reproduction, both to produce pig manure and to provide pork.

To this end, Marin wrote a letter on the spot, in which Marin confessed to old George that he had to build a separate pigsty and not let the pigs fight each other physically and exhaustively. Moreover, the pigsty should pay attention to the high temperature and try to build it in the shade of a tree to avoid the pigs being killed by heat.

It's just that Ma Lin remembered the Taihu pig raised by his family in his previous life......

The native European pigs of this period were small in size and had fewer calves per litter, only five or six. Unlike Taihu pigs, more than a dozen are born in one litter, and the population expands very quickly. Moreover, the size of Taihu pigs is also much larger than that of European pigs in this era, and there is naturally more meat......

But now there are no Taihu pigs in Ma Lin's hands, and even, the breed of Taihu pigs has not yet been formed in Daming. But the source of its variety must be in the area around Taihu Lake, otherwise it would not be called this name. It's just that if you want to get such a variety, you must open the Ming trade route first......

As for raising sheep in Grenada, Marin didn't think about it at all. Because, the sheep are covered with thick wool. It's fine in temperate areas, but running to the tropical island of Grenada, it's easy to get heat stroke...... Just imagine, a person in a down jacket is warm and comfortable in Siberia, but running to the equator in a down jacket will definitely pass out in the heat......

The sheep are covered in thick wool, as if a person were wearing a down jacket. Running to the hot and humid island of Grenada, it is difficult to adapt. Therefore, it is better to raise pigs on a tropical humid island like Grenada.

However, Marin remembered that since Grenada would be short of dung, the same would happen to the colonies of the North American twin islands and Cape Breton. It's just that it hasn't been reported yet. But Amerigo and Cape Breton are temperate islands, which are suitable for large-scale sheep and cattle raising, as well as horse breeding, and there are many more options than Grenada......