Chapter 180： Spring plough is busy

In ancient agricultural society, spring ploughing was definitely a top priority. Therefore, the lord, Marin, must be present to participate in the ceremony. Although you do n’t use the pig ’s head to sacrifice the sky as in the East, you also need to organize everyone to pray for something and hope that God will bless it.

This spring plowing has used more than 800 horses and more than 200 cattle. The animal power is sufficient, and the labor-saving and high-efficiency curved plow is used, so the farmland is fast.

In the process of cultivating land, Marin discovered a very interesting phenomenon-that is, when Haider presided over the cultivated land, he asked the cattle not to turn as much as possible. Moreover, there are strict regulations on the length of each farming. If the farming length is not specified, cattle are not allowed to turn. Because turning too often can affect farming efficiency.

According to Haider, this is to improve the efficiency of arable land. And he said something very interesting-that is, the origin of the acre.

It turned out that while Heidel was in college, a classmate came from the UK, and he told the origin of Heidel's acre ...

The English word acre is the unit of measurement used by the British. One acre is about 6 acres. By definition, the area of ​​acre is equal to the area of ​​a rectangle that is furlong and chain wide. A furlong is equal to 660 feet, and a chain is equal to 66 feet. Seeing this, everyone may not feel it, but if we understand the historical origin of the units of measurement such as acre, furlong, and chain, we can understand how long and how big it is.

古代 In ancient England, a pair of cattle was usually used to pull a plough when cultivating land. This pair of cows pull the plough without rest, and the distance that can be cultivated in one breath is called furlong (wave, also translated as furlong), which is actually the abbreviation of furrowlong. After ploughing a wave of distance in one breath, let the cattle rest, and then turn around and plow again and again, until the end of the day, the area plowed on this day is an acre. If you let the cows turn around before the length of the wave is plowed, the number of turns will increase, and the area of ​​cattle ploughing will decrease. This is why furlong is used as the side length in the definition of acre.

That is to say, if the farming is properly arranged, the area that two cows plow a day is one acre (6 acres). However, the Wadden Islands are more efficient than the European curved ploughs of this era. Therefore, despite using a cow to pull, it can still cultivate 5 acres of land every day.

Of course, this is the standard reached after borrowing from the British method of turning around after one plow. And if it is a small plot like Huaxia with frequent turns, a cow can only cultivate about 4 acres of land a day.

Rushing horses to cultivate land is more efficient than cattle. For example, after using a one-row and one-stop farming method, plus the use of a Qu Qu plough, Marin's French armour horse, can actually cultivate 6 acres of land a day, exactly one acre.

Alas, horses are more angry than cattle. Although the speed of the horse plough is faster than that of the cattle during the cultivation, the horses need to rest for a while, otherwise, the horse's body can't stand it. If you don't care about the horse's body, the horse will soon collapse or even die.

Furthermore, during the cultivation, the horses did not eat forage, they were all fed oats, and they had to eat more eggs, which was very costly. Cattle, although also fed some oats and eggs during farming, are still based on forage. Oatmeal and eggs can only be considered as supplementary meals to supplement nutrition.

Therefore, there is not much difference between cattle farming and horse farming. Of course, when it comes to efficiency, it is still faster, and when it comes to cost, it is still cheap ...

Because there are more than 800 horses and 200 cattle, these animals can cultivate nearly 1,000 acres per day, equivalent to 500 Eugrams.

On the archipelago, the total cultivated land developed is only 11,400 Ugram, while the archipelago has been cultivated since February. Therefore, by mid-March, the arable land on the island had been cultivated.

Then, Marin just purified some potassium salt, mixed it into the septic tank, and used it as a base fertilizer. The island now has a full population of 16,000, but many are mercenaries who do not have a very large population. Therefore, Marin keeps the fertilizers secret, so that the fertilization process does not spread out.

As a result, during the fertilization period, Marin ordered Schwartz and Fronzberg to pull the army out for training, away from the agricultural area. The army is mainly in the southern half of East Vlieland. There are no freshwater rivers there, and it is not suitable for arable land. Only the first group of people who followed Marin had their own cultivated land on the island and were allowed to stay at home to participate in spring plowing.

After a few days, the smell of the feces had almost disappeared, and the seeds could be ordered on demand. Marin was then allowed to bring the army back to the castle ...

Of course, Marin's daily supply of food to support this group of soldiers will not make them too idle. They are not needed to go down to the ground, but these big soldiers can help build roads, but they are fine. To this end, Marin sent ships to the mainland to buy a lot of stones and wooden hammers, so that these soldiers can participate in road construction. It is mainly to build the passage between the newly-built farms and the dock.

The puppet soldiers irrigated the ground with water to soften the ground. Then, he vigorously lifted the wooden hammer to tamp the ground, and tamped the foundation. Then, sprinkle the stones again, water it, and then smash it with a wooden hammer. Try to smash the soil and stones together to make the road more solid ...

In this regard, Marin is also well-known-this is a practice of arm strength, but also a type of military training ...

抡 Hammer hits the ground, can it be considered training? People in the 21st century have long been dissatisfied. But this year's soldiers are basically illiterate. They have little knowledge and can only listen to Marin flicker. They really thought that this was also a kind of training. After all, the hammer was too much, and it really practiced arm strength ... Moreover, Marin was shameless, but they also said that when the hammer hit the ground, he had to knock the ground Both Shi and Shizi are imagined as enemies wearing plate armor, and the duty of the soldiers is to smash the enemy, stun the enemy knights in the plate armor and even kill them ...

Then, this group of uneducated, stupid soldiers really believed. When I hit the ground with a hammer, it was a hard work ... shouting while smashing-"What about Lord Knight, I smashed you with a hammer!"

Schwartz and Fronzberg, who acted as supervisors, listened and rolled their eyes-paralyzed, Lao Tzu is a knight, do you want to smash Lao Tzu? I remember you, I want you to look good next time ...

Because there is no seed drill, sowing in this era is all by hand. Of course, spreading is not very good. After all, it ’s easy to “shake your hands” when spreading, and then spread unevenly. Therefore, the most reliable is digging on demand.

But there are so many serfs on the island, and more than 10,000 Ugram land is very labor-intensive. As a result, Marin ordered that the strong men and women of all the fishermen's families on the island came to help sow wheat.

These rye grains are all soaked in salt water under the arrangement of Marin, and they are good seeds full of grains. Under Marin's arrangement, most of the island's young men came to participate in on-demand wheat kernels.

The specific process is that, at a small straight line distance, a strong man will take a sharpened wooden stick and poke a not too deep hole in the cultivated land. Then, the woman who immediately follows will throw the wheat seeds into the hole, pull it with the hand, cover the wheat seeds with soil, and simply press it, not too tightly or loosely ... so reciprocating ...

Although there is no seed drill, Marin asked for a line when planting. The spacing is not much different from the spacing when transplanting rice seedlings in the hometown of later Marin, but it should be more densely ~ www.novelhall.com ~ because Marin knows that the more dense the planting is, the better it is to maintain some spacing. Because each wheat has its own root system, it needs some space to grow and take root. If several wheat plants grow together, there will be serious competition. Their roots are entangled, and they compete for the site and nourishment of this small place. The end result is that these wheat strains did not grow well, or only one of them barely grew better.

Therefore, it is better to separate the plants to avoid competition for root sites and nutrients between the plants, resulting in everyone not growing well. However, there is more than one grain of wheat planted in each pit. Because you cannot guarantee that every seed will germinate.

Because there is more than one seed in each pit, after germination, more than one seedling will emerge at these points. At that time, according to the growth of the wheat seedlings, you can also pull out the wheat seedlings that are too poor and entangled with other wheat seedlings as weeds to give them plenty of room for excellent wheat seedlings to survive and absorb nutrients ...

When Hun Chung ploughed, Marin gathered the serfs together for dinner every night. After each dinner, he promoted these agricultural knowledge and listened to the serfs. Even college students like Heidel listened to each other. However, as an official in charge of government affairs, Haider understands that he must also master agricultural knowledge, otherwise he cannot guide others. Therefore, Haider brags about the knowledge of later generations in Marin, always taking out a notebook, recording Marin's quotations ...

Later, relying on this notebook, Haider also became a high-level official who is proficient in agriculture from a purely law official, and also became the Minister of Agriculture of Marin ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Welcome the book readers , The latest, fastest, and most popular serial works are available at ~ www.novelhall.com ~ mobile users please read.