Chapter 1622： Modernization of agriculture

"Really?" Marin didn't believe it. If Mai SM is so good, why didn't he use this thing when he cut wheat in the past nine years? In his childhood, there was no such thing.

In fact, Marin did not know that this thing is generally popular in the Central Plains area north of the Huaihe River. Marin's last home was in the Jianghuai region. In ancient times, rice was the main planting type. Naturally, this kind of wheat-cutting artifact was not popular.

But for Europe, which basically grows wheat, the meaning of wheat samarium is too great. There is no tractor this year, and the function that samarium can play is equivalent to a harvester. Moreover, Marin remembered that in the 19th century, the horse-harvesting machine invented by the American inventor McCormick was only three times as efficient as ordinary people.

It seems that Kong Tai also guessed that Marin might not believe it, so at the end of the letter, Kong Tai mentioned that he not only made people bring back samples of Mai SM, but also brought back several poor farmers recruited from Central Plains Netherlands , They will show Malin how to use Mai SM in person.

Kong Tai emphasized that although Mai SM is highly efficient, most people may not be able to handle it. Because, it is very heavy, just the 1 meter long samarium knife is very important. Therefore, in general, Mai SM needs a man of great age to manipulate, and skill is needed. If you do n’t know how to operate, the samarium knife may cut yourself ...

I heard that some people could perform live. Marin went to Emden Harbour with great interest and called several farmers from the Central Plains of Great Holland to show them how to cut wheat. Because he wanted to see the effects too much, Marin even spared a few acres of rye field that was about to mature, to let several people perform the harvest of wheat samarium.

The peasants performing, first introduced Marin. The wheat samarium they use, also known as wheat chuzi, is composed of three parts: wheat samarium, wheat chuo, and wheat cage, supplemented by wooden handles, sliding frames, drawstrings and other accessories. The so-called wheat samarium is actually a samarium knife, commonly known as a samarium blade, a sharp and thin blade that is more than two feet long, inlaid on the wheat chuo, and can be freely disassembled.

Mai Chuo, also known as Mai Chuozi, is commonly known as a chicken coop cage. The upper part is round, and the middle is made of fine bamboo sticks or old vines. The role. The lower part is about two feet wide, with heads together, and the saline knife is installed at the bottom of the skip with thin wooden boards. The samarium knife is a bit like the blade of a manual razor in later generations. It is very sharp and thin, which facilitates rapid harvesting. But at the same time, if it is injured by the blade, it is also very scary ...

The ends of the skip are equipped with wooden handles at one end and a rope at one end. The wooden handle is about 1 meter long and the rope is shorter. There is a horizontal beam at the end of the wooden handle, which is convenient for holding. There is a loop at the end of the rope to facilitate hand pulling. The outer side of Mai Chuo should bulge inwards, so that when the knife cuts the wheat, it will gather the cut wheat in the henhouse cage.

When harvesting, the farmer bowed his right leg forward, slightly curved his left leg, held a wooden handle in his right hand, and pulled the rope with his left hand. First throw wheat chuzi through the wooden handle to the front of a piece of wheat behind, the samarium knife fell to the root of the wheat bush. Then, the farmer's hands violently pulled Mai Sai back. The sharp samarium knife cut across the roots of the clump of wheat, and the piece of wheat was cut off by the roots and fell into the Mai Chuo cage. Then, the wheat plants in the cage are gathered together as a bundle, which is bundled up by the following woman or child, ready to be transported back to thresh ...

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Because the full set of wheat samarium is relatively heavy, the average woman cannot control it. Even men who have less strength are more difficult to get promoted. Of course, adult men who are used to farming work are generally fine. Only those noble children or scholars do not have enough strength to control Mai SM.

But even if you have enough strength, be careful. Because, when SM is pulling back to harvest wheat, he also avoids using too much force. If the samarium knife cuts off the wheat roots and then continues, it may cut into the leg, then it's done.

Therefore, Sun Er, a big Dutch farmer who demonstrated to Marin, emphasized that-the descendants who have not touched this thing, must practice for a few months to use. How to practice? Of course, practice after removing the sharp samarium knife. You can only get started if you are trained without a blade. Also, be careful at the beginning. Otherwise, if you cut your legs, you would be crippled. If the artery is cut, it will be dead ...

Marin watched Sun Er's dazzling performance and felt very kung fu. Is this the so-called crop handle?

In fact, Marin's guess is not wrong. A skilled farmer using wheat samarium is stable in the market. And holding a long time Mai Sima, the hand is not small. Moreover, the Greater Holland area has been the home of kung fu since ancient times. Just like Sun Er, there are several crops.

Of course, only a few hands, after all, it is not professional, but it is not more professional than martial arts. Moreover, ordinary farmers do not have enough meat to supply the nutrients needed for martial arts training. But when it comes to the stability of the undercarriage, these farmers who are good at using samarium have a very stable center of gravity, and it is not easy to roll over ...

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In fact, there is another usage of Mai SM. It was two people who manipulated the samarium, and one person pulled one side. The person on the right pulls the wooden handle, the person on the left pulls the rope. Of course, Mai SM should also be changed, at least, the wooden handle and the rope should be changed to be longer, suitable for both hands to pull. Furthermore, the width can be increased appropriately to improve harvesting efficiency.

If they use both hands to pull together, they can stand side by side and avoid the samarium knife from hurting themselves. After all, when the two collaborated, they stood on the side of the samarium knife.

Moreover, if the two work hard together, the two hands are more powerful than the single hand, and the impact of the total weight of Mai SM on the people must be further reduced. After all, the two shared the weight of Mai SM. In this case, the staying power of the two will be stronger during the work. Unlike a single person who manipulates the samarium, the weight of the entire samarium is borne by one person, and it is inevitable that he will be tired and rest. In the case of two people, the rest interval is much longer.

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Then, in a Marin manor outside Emden, several big Dutch farmers gave Marin performances of single use of samarium and double use of samarium. Among them, the wheat samarium used by two people should be wider and the width of the harvest should be larger.

Although it was boring to harvest wheat, Marin watched them harvest wheat with great interest. Of course, he ordered people to move to the table and stools and sit in the field to watch the use of Mai SM. He has a parasol on his head ...

After a day, when several big Dutch farmers couldn't do anything, Marin sent a statistic-ho! That's true! The single person harvested more than 6 acres a day, more than one acre! And the two-person one is even more powerful, really harvesting 20 acres!

"It's an artifact!" Marin stood up excitedly.

If you can promote Mai SM, then you are not afraid that the autumn harvest will be too slow and it will rain.

What is the concept of 20 mu a day? 100 acres can be harvested in 5 days! According to the calculation that the autumn harvest lasted for more than half a month in this era, two strong men can harvest 300 acres of land! Then, on average, the number of farms per household can reach 150 mu! Work hard, 200 acres can be solved!

Why did the ancient Chinese people say, "A cow in 30 acres, a hot head for his wife and children"? Isn't it too busy? If only one or two acres can be harvested in one day, the husband and wife together ~ www.novelhall.com ~ will harvest more than three acres in one day. Then, 30 acres of land can be harvested for ten days. No matter how much, it is a bit overwhelming.

However, it is different if you have a wheat samarium. You can harvest 200 acres in 10 days! Even if there is only one male in a household, that's fine. Big deal, help each other with neighbors and cooperate to harvest. In this way, a family harvesting 100 acres is not a problem at all!

Prior to the autumn harvest in Beihai, because of insufficient labor, Marin had to send an army to help harvest. Otherwise, it is easy to delay the autumn harvest. But now, with the wheat-cutting artifact Mai SM, Marin no longer has to worry about the autumn harvest delay ...

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Marin, how do you think and how happy, Prad ’s three-plow parallel plow truck, coupled with the sowing of the fast-arriving car, and the wheat-cutting artifact Mai SM ... This does not make a complete set of modern agricultural machinery ... A thresher!

If there is no thresher, people will cut the wheat off the stone and separate the wheat, which is very hard and inefficient.

However, the thresher seems to have a simple principle. Malin read novels in his previous life and saw many people design foot-operated threshers. Obviously this is the lowest technology.

Moreover, Marin does not need to design himself, but he has a group of craftsmen. Those craftsmen who can make clocks and watches, it is not too easy to design a pedal thresher ...

Therefore, Marin feels that the modernization of agriculture in the North Sea has arrived ...