Jim's concern was not unreasonable, this year's winter was not cold enough, and although it was not a snowless winter, it did not seriously snow. This means that not many eggs laid by the insects in the land last year were frozen to death, and as the weather warms, the problem of insect infestations will definitely become serious. Fortunately, the Cleveland agricultural people are very interesting, not only did they send Jim "soil gold" in time, but even every few days, their salesman would come to Jim's house, and he would go to inspect the field, observe the rise of wheat, and carefully register them one by one, sometimes, when Jim planted so much land that he and his wife could not take care of the field as carefully as in the manual, The Cleveland Agriculturalists, Tom, would even go out into the fields with the Jim family. After going back and forth, Jim and Tom became friends.

"Tom, rest. Even if we strangle all the bugs here, it won't be long before more bugs fly from the fields next to us. Hell, I was encouraged by you to catch bugs, which I had never done before when I farmed my own fields. It's so hard......" Jim said to Tom as he sat down on the field, gasping for breath.

Tom sat down next to him, and Jim handed the kettle to Tom, who was not polite, and the kettle drank most of it until he shook his body and could hear the sound of water swaying in his stomach.

Tom took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, this is a very cheap local cigarette, the name is very large, called the universe brand, but the tobacco used is very bad, and the taste is not much different from the Castle brand cigarettes made by MacDonald Foods with Cuban tobacco leaves painted on the swan castle. But the good thing is that it's cheap. Tom always had two packs of cigarettes in his pocket, a pack of Castle cigarettes in his jacket pocket for first-time clients, and a pack in his trouser pocket for himself and his friends. Now Tom and Jim are old acquaintances, so Tom doesn't hand Jim the castle card, but only a cosmic cigarette.

"Brother Tom," said Jim, taking a puff on his cigarette, "you manure, it's really a great man, and you see how well the wheat grows in our field." I bought this new land, but this is not my first time farming. The soil here is not fertile, but with your 'soil gold', wheat grows better than in the fattest black soil. But maybe it's because our wheat grows so well, you see, the insects in the fields next to us are flying towards us! That's a ......."

Tom didn't have much to do about such a situation. He took two puffs of his cigarette, then stood up and said, "There's nothing you can do. But we can't just watch these insects eat our wheat, can we? Okay, enough rest, let's go over the remaining acres of land again. ”

And just like that, Tom spent almost the whole day in Jim's wheat field. Jim and his wife were very grateful to the warm-hearted Tom and tried to keep him for dinner, but Tom said that he had some business at the company and had to rush over, so he didn't eat at Jim's house and went straight to the train station to catch the train.

"Mr. Tom is such a nice man." His wife said to Jim, "Helpful, conscientious, and cares for our fields more than we do." What a nice guy......"

Tom's warm-heartedness was not without reason, as early as the beginning of the year, there was a meeting in the company. At this meeting, I first talked about the significance of their work:

"This year is the first time that our gold has been put into agricultural production, and we must ensure that the users of this gold harvest will have a good harvest, so that the gold will be a hit. In the last year, we invested so much advertising money in order to shake up the world with an astonishing number of production numbers this year. Therefore, our sales staff must maintain a high sense of responsibility and must be highly responsible to serve our first customers. Let them have a good harvest, and their harvest will be our harvest. ”

Then the material incentives were prescribed:

"When the winter wheat is harvested this year, if the wheat yield per mu of the customer you are responsible for exceeds 30 percent of last year's national average per mu, you will have a basic bonus of 400 US dollars, if it exceeds 40 percent, your bonus will increase by 10 percent, that is, 440 US dollars, if the yield per mu exceeds 50 percent, your bonus will increase by 20 percent, that is, 480 US dollars, but if it exceeds 60 percent, your bonus will increase by 60 percent, that is, 640 US dollarsIf it exceeds 70 percent, your winnings will rise by 100 percent, which is $800. For every 10 percentage points in the future, your winnings will increase by another 15 percentage points on top of the $800. ”

Such incentives certainly keep Tom motivated. But now, the bug matter made Tom extra anxious. And it's not just Tom who is anxious, this year's insect pest is strict, and it is not easy to make the yield per mu more than last year, if you are not careful, the increase is less than 20 percent, and even the basic 400 US dollars are gone. So when he saw the bugs eating wheat in the field, Tom felt as distressing as seeing them eating their own bills.

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Two days later, Tom reappeared in front of Jim with an excited face. He carried on his back what looked like a large tin bucket, to which was attached a pipe with a long sprinkler head with a handle in front of it. And on the other side of the bucket is a long stick.

"Jim, we've got a way to deal with bugs! Hahahaha! Tom laughed happily.

"What is this? What's the use? Jim asked.

"Pesticide sprayer." Tom replied, "Our company's new product, combined with our company's insecticide, is specifically designed to kill all kinds of pests. ”

"There won't be any bad side effects, right?" Jim was quite cautious about things he hadn't heard of too much.

"If you don't believe in other people's things, can you still believe in our company's things?" Tom smiled and said, "I brought the contract to give you a trial this time, but I finally applied for it from the company for you." It's not easy. You look at this contract, as long as you sign it and use this, in the future, if the output is lower than 120 percent of last year's national average. Our company directly buys all the output in your hands at the current market price of 120 percent of the wheat per mu of the national average yield last year. What else do you have to hesitate about? I'll tell you how this thing works......"

"Really! You guy, can we trust Brother Tom? After listening to Tom's detailed explanation of the principle of DDT, Jim's wife said, "What about the contract, show us." ”

Jim and his wife looked at the contract carefully, and it was indeed the same as Tom said. So Jim signed the contract in duplicate.

In front of Jim, Tom took out a glass bottle, and some liquid came out of it, and then a strange smell diffused.

"Step away, this thing is somewhat poisonous." Tom said, and at the same time quickly put on his mask.

Tom prepared the lotion according to the method he had learned yesterday, poured it into the closed tin bucket, tightened the lid on the bucket, and went out with the bucket on his back, followed by Jim, and his wife curiously followed.

When he arrived in the field, Tom pressed the handle with one hand to press high-pressure air into the tin bucket, and with the other hand held the spray lever, he began to spray the medicine on Jim's wheat field. As his arm pressed the handle continuously, a thin, mist-like mist of medicine sprayed from the sprinkler head and sprayed it in Jim's wheat field.

"Stay upwind!" Seeing that Jim's wife had run downwind of the spray in order to see better, Tom immediately stopped and reminded her. "This thing is more or less poisonous, and you will get dizzy if you smell it too much."

One morning, Tom sprayed several acres of wheat fields in Jim's house, and such a fresh move naturally attracted the attention of others, and by the time Tom finished his work, there were already many farmers around the wheat field, all of whom were talking about it.

Compared with the fertilizer such as "soil gold", the effect of DDT is much more significant, just after spraying, you can see that the grasshoppers and all kinds of insects that were originally jumping around in the wheat field are no longer flying, they all convulsed and fell to the ground, almost in a blink of an eye.