Chapter 22

As one of the three major cereals in the world, wheat has been domesticated as early as 10000 years ago.

However, North America is not the origin of wheat. The origin of wheat is the two river basins in the Middle East. It spread to Spain and Italy more than 8000 years ago. Since then, Europeans began to grow wheat.

It was not until Columbus discovered the new world that European colonists began to colonize the new world crazily that wheat, an important crop, was brought to the American continent by European colonists.

So now most of the North American Indians are still in the state of hunting, but the wheat crop has begun to spread among the North American Indians.

As the first Cherokee to contact and cooperate with European colonists, wheat has long been an important source of food for the tribe. Just like corn, Europeans did not tell the Cherokees how to plant wheat properly. It took Cherokees hundreds of years to figure out how to plant wheat.

So to put it mildly, wheat, like corn, is in the hands of the Cherokees

However, after all, the Cherokee people have germinated farming civilization, so in the more than ten days since they came to the gaoshu tribe, the stone bear has found many crop seeds in the tribe.

Not only the seeds of corn and wheat, but also potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes, beans, etc. are found in this small tribe.

This is good news to the letter. Stone bear has long known that North American Indians have made an indelible contribution to the world in terms of food, especially potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are super high-yield crops and feed billions of people. However, after seeing these high-yield crops with his own eyes, he was still a little excited.

However, the stone bear is also very puzzled. These guys are clearly guarding these high-yield crops. Why is there not enough food to eat every year?

The stone bear only felt that his burden was heavier.

Potatoes can't be planted at this time of the year. They can't be planted until spring next year. Similarly, sweet potato is not suitable for planting in winter, let alone corn, so only winter wheat can be planted.

"Is it OK to plant wheat at this time? We used to plant wheat in March, the month of worms. "

Stone bear helplessly shook his head, "it's OK to plant wheat in spring, but in our place, it's a bit deficient to plant wheat in spring. Autumn is the best time to plant wheat. "

Hongyun wants to ask why, but seeing the stone bear busy looking at the seeds, she just opens her mouth but doesn't make a sound.

"These seeds are good enough to be sown." For a long time, the stone bear stood up straight and said with great satisfaction.

"Then I'll arrange for the seeds to be sown?" Affected by the joy of the stone bear, red cloud's face also showed a smile.

"No, Hongyun, you must remember that no matter what crops are sown in the future, you must no longer scatter the seeds into the field as you used to. Before sowing seeds, the first thing to do is to plough the land. Only when the land is ploughed well, the seeds will grow better and the yield will be higher in the future. "

For the stone bear's words, red cloud did not understand, "can't we just sprinkle the seeds into the field?"

Stone bear was stunned for a moment, then smiled and explained, "OK, why not? However, the sowing method you used before is called broadcast sowing, which is a very rough and primitive sowing method. The yield of crops planted in this way is much lower. According to the instruction of the supreme Sun God, we don't need to use the way of sowing in the future. We need to use the way of drilling or on-demand to sow, so as to facilitate the management of crops in the growing period and harvest more food in the future. "

See red cloud also want to ask, stone bear waved his hand said: "you don't ask, first with me."

Then the stone bear put on the animal skin coat, took the red cloud out of the sacrificial hut, and the two came to the cultivated land beside the tribe.

At the foot of the foggy mountain in late autumn, it is still gloomy. The temperature here is mild compared to the area further north. Flat patches of land are scattered on both sides of the littleriver river. There are more or less crops on them, but none of them seems to be alive.

The stone bear stooped to grab a handful of soil from the ground, rubbed it, and nodded with satisfaction.

The land here is really fertile. Although the little river is not very wide, it is a river that originates from Dawu Mountain. If there is more rainfall in any year, the mild little river will still turn into an uncontrollable River, and the two banks can't restrain the huge amount of water.

Therefore, the flood of litterliver River from time to time brings rich nutrients to the surrounding land, which makes the nearby land rich.

"These lands are excellent. If they are combined with more advanced farming methods, our tribe will not have to worry about food in the future." But before that, we still need to do a lot of work

"For example, it's better to plough the land once, so that it will be more conducive to the growth of crops." Stone bear stood beside the red cloud, reached out and pointed to this large area of land, very sure to say, quite a touch of instructive charm.

"How to plow?" The problem of red cloud makes stone bear helpless again.

Yes, for these backward Indians, it's one thing to know how to plow, but it's another thing to know how to plow.

It's like the gaoshu tribe now. Even if there is a noble kabulu sacrifice here, the tribe is still very poor and backward. Apart from other things, there are no ploughs and cattle in the tribe for ploughing the land.

If you want to plough all this large area of cultivated land, you can't plough all this land if you just point to the bones and spears in the tribe, even if all the people in the tribe join hands for a year.

"Hongyun, is there any iron in the tribe?"

"Yes, but not much. It's all the things we got when the vasichus came to exchange things, mainly things like pots."

"Can you get me some pots? I need iron to make a tool, a tool for farming. " The stone bear looks at the red cloud expectantly.

Stone bear knows that in this era, even the iron pot is a valuable property of the Indians. At this time, the North American Indians could not make iron, let alone steel, so the iron pots and other ironware exchanged from the European colonists were very valuable properties.

It is obviously not an easy thing to ask for the iron pot from the people who own it.

Red cloud smile: "give it to me!"