Chapter 203: Manure
Qin Feng had been plowing for an hour before handing over the plough and oxen to another sergeant to cultivate, and he came to the side of the weeds, thorns, and leaves that had been piled up into a mountain.
"Come on a few people, tamp down this pile of weeds, leaves, and thorns, and leave as few gaps as possible!"
Under Qin Feng's command, some sergeants restacked and compacted the sundries to make the volume as small as possible.
Then Qin Feng asked people to pour some dung on it, until the weeds, leaves, and thorns were all watered.
"Come on, go and mud, use the mud to paste all the weeds, leaves, and thorns that have been piled up, just like pasting a wall!"
The sergeants dug up the earth and picked it up, and then they brought in water and mud, and it was done in a morning, and the weeds, leaves, and thorns that had been covered with mud looked like a small dirt bag.
The farmers all gathered around to watch the excitement, and everyone didn't know why Qin Feng asked the soldiers to paste these weeds, leaves, and thorns with thin mud, what was the use of doing this?
Deng Zhi was even more unclear, so he asked, "Lord, what is this for?" Could it be that these weeds, leaves, and thorns also have a use? ”
Qin Feng smiled: "Since there is!" This is called manure, if there is chicken manure, cow manure, sheep manure, horse manure can be filled in for manure, paste them with thin mud and wrap them, after a period of time these weeds, leaves and thorns will rot, will have a strong fertility, put into the field, not only can increase the fertility of the land, but also make the soil soft, more suitable for crop growth! ”
When it is impossible to produce chemical fertilizers, this method of making fertilizer is undoubtedly the best choice, and these are organic fertilizers, weeds, leaves, and thorns contain a certain amount of potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen.
Three steps of the plough, three laborers, a hundred acres of land in a few days, Qin Feng here is to water manure and plough the field, while digging ditches and sowing, and then cover the wheat seeds with soil after sowing.
Different from sowing, the sowing is planted under the soil, while the sowing is planted on the soil, and the wheat seedlings are not easy to fall after the sowing is planted, while the scattered wheat straw is stable, it is easy to fall after strong wind and rain, which obviously will also affect the yield.
But there is one point, the advantage of sowing is that it saves time and effort, and strip tillage belongs to the intensive cultivation method, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is much more convenient to manage.
After more than ten days, the small soil bag began to emit heat, and bursts of water vapor came out of the small soil bag, and the smell of manure spread, attracting many mosquitoes and flies to fly nearby, which is the weeds, leaves, thorns, dead branches, orange stalks, etc. that are buried below are fermenting and rotting.
Because these things are splashed with feces, the feces contain a large number of microorganisms and bacteria, and under the action of these microorganisms and bacteria, heat is emitted, and the plants buried below begin to ferment and decay at a certain temperature, and finally become a very fertile fertilizer.
When the wheat seedlings are born, it is obvious that the wheat seedlings in the 100 acres of Qin Feng with base fertilizer are obviously much better than the wheat seedlings in the fields cultivated by other farmers using extensive farming methods, each plant not only grows taller, but also greener, and the wheat stalks are thicker.
When the farmers came to the field to check the growth of their wheat seedlings, they saw the crops on the land reclaimed by Qin Feng at a glance, and they all opened their eyes wide and walked over to watch.
"It seems that we really need to apply base fertilizer before the land is ploughed!" The farmers couldn't help but sigh.
When the wheat seedlings grow taller, a lot of weeds stand out in the field, which is about to be weeded, if not weeded, the weeds will grow wildly, absorbing the sudden fertility around them, the wheat will not grow high, and the yield will naturally not be high.
When the farmers and their families were busy pulling weeds in the field, they could only pull them one by one, and most of the weeds in the wheat fields of Qin Feng, who used the strip tillage method, grew in the gaps left, and only a small number of weeds grew between the wheat seedlings.
"Forehead······ It only took them a few days to weed? The farmers were amazed, and wondered if it was really better to use strip tillage than to sow seeds.
When it was time to water the wheat, the farmers found that they had to carry water and splash the wheat seedlings, and they had to go to the middle of the wheat fields, and they were afraid that they would trample the wheat seedlings to death.
And the sergeants sent by Qin Feng to water the wheat carried the water from the gap left to the field, and it did not affect the watering at all, extremely aspect.
When the weather was at its hottest, the sergeants dug ditches in the gaps left to bring water from the river for irrigation, and there was no need to carry water at all.
At this time, it was time to apply fertilizer, and the original fertilizer that had been soaked could already come in handy, and the sergeants dug up the soil, dug up the organic plant fertilizer that had been blackened inside, and used a basket to pick it off and spread it evenly between the gaps of the wheat seedlings, and spread it into strips.
At first, the fertilizer did not seem to have much effect, but when a heavy rain fell, the fertility of the fertilizer was washed into the ground by the rain, and the wheat stalks grew taller and thicker day by day.
The wheat soon bloomed and pollened, and the wind blew, and the green wheat seedlings undulated like waves.
After the heading, Qin Feng's 100 acres of wheat were obviously better than other farmers, not only the ears were long and the grains were full, but also the number was more.
The wheat in the wheat fields of other farmers was sparsely pulled, dense in some places, and very sparse in some places, but the wheat on Qin Feng's side was all the way, neat and tidy, and the ears of wheat bent the wheat stalks.
As we enter mid to late September, the wheat turns golden and golden, and it is very beautiful to look at.
On this day, Qin Feng took Xiao Qiao to the field in a carriage, the carriage stopped on the side of the road, and the sergeants were on guard around.
Some farmers who were inspecting their wheat fields also came over to greet him when they saw Qin Feng coming.
"I've seen Fuzun!"
Qin Feng led Xiao Qiao down from the carriage, raised his hand and said with a smile: "Everyone, how is the growth of the wheat you are waiting for, how is the growth of my wheat?" ”
At this time, everyone could see that the yield of wheat in Qin Feng's 100 acres of wheat field was definitely much higher than that of their farmers.
A farmer saluted Qin Feng with joy and sincerity: "What Fuzun said is true, it seems that we are stubborn, I don't know that this kind of crop still has so much knowledge!" Dare to ask the Fuzun, can you teach the grass people how to grow this wheat? ”
Qin Feng said: "You are all the people under my rule, the higher your grain production, the more secure the state government's taxes, you are willing to learn and use new methods of farming, I can't ask for it, I will send someone to teach you new methods of farming and manure!" ”