In the Qing Dynasty, Ma Guohan once edited a book called "Household Economics Law", which compiled and recorded some ancient family-run agricultural technologies summarized during the Jin Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty.

There are records of large-scale chicken raising: "Chicken raising method: Plow one acre of land in February, sprinkle rice porridge on it, cover it with mowing thatch, and grow white worms on its own.

So he bought ten yellow hens and one male. They built a house on the ground, five feet wide, and hung a grate under the house for the chickens to sleep on.

And make a chicken coop and hang it in the middle. When the summer moon is full, the chickens will return to the house to rest. And build a small house in the garden, so that the chickens can raise their young, but the crows can't."

This means that in February, an acre of mature land is plowed, rice porridge is sprinkled on it, and fresh thatch is cut to cover the ground. This will attract insects to lay eggs and produce a large number of larvae.

"Cultivated fields" refers to mature fields, which are fields under cultivation.

There are a lot of earthworms, grubs and other bugs in such a field, and together with the white bugs spawned, the bugs themselves can multiply quickly for chickens to eat.

This method is similar to what Wu Bing told Chu Qing: "Chickens and ducks feed on dung, excrement breeds worms, and worms feed chickens and ducks." However, Chu Qing feels that Wu Bing's method is simpler and more practical.

So he told Xu Guangze this method: "Collect the poultry manure and dry it in the sun, mix it with some rice bran and mud from the river, mix it evenly and cover it with hay. Insects will grow in ten days;

These insects are ground up, mixed with amaranth, gray vegetables, pastures, etc., and fed to chickens and ducks. It becomes a very good feed;

Just remember that chicken manure, duck manure, and goose manure must be soaked separately to avoid mutual infection of diseases due to different bird species;

This recycling method of breeding also allows people to spend less food;

Furthermore, the wasteland is large and the poultry has a place to graze every day, so it is not easy to get sick, and their excrement can be collected and used, so they will not get sick due to delayed cleaning;

Except for planting grass, which requires some labor, the elderly and children can do the rest;

And it will be much easier for these wastelands where pasture has grown to grow food in the future.”

Xu Guangze listened with rapt attention. When Chu Qing finished speaking, he suddenly slapped his chopsticks on the dining table and shouted to his master: "Why don't you write it down!"

He was afraid of missing something, so how could he just listen?

As the saying goes, a good memory is worse than a bad pen, you have to write it down.

Did Master Tai ask him to come and have a meal?

The master trembled: What an injustice!

Zhuo Yao had been drinking and chatting with him. He was too busy dealing with Zhuo Yao. How could he notice what was going on at Chu Qing's side?

After dinner, Chu Qing and Xu Guangze walked around the farmland in Wushu Village, Zhang Village and Li Village to eat.

Walking in the fields, water pipes are exposed among the ridges.

"Chu Qing, have you ever had a bright head? How did it grow?" Xu Guangshi pointed at the water pipe and said to Chu Qing: "How did you come up with this way of watering?"

The method of watering is not strange, but things like water pipes are really hard to figure out.

Industrial backwardness means that many things cannot be achieved.

For example, this water pipe has neither plastic nor rubber. The pipes can only be made from animal skins, metals, bamboo, etc. It is a time-consuming, labor-intensive and material-consuming process.

Moreover, the cost is high and transportation is inconvenient. In short, the price-performance ratio is very poor.

The water pipes and automatic water dispensers in these three villages were donated by Chuqing, so other villages do not have them.

The water pipes are made of canvas produced by the Chu family and brushed with tung oil to produce oilcloth.

It was originally intended for making oil umbrellas, but Chu Qing processed a batch of cloth pipes and made oil cloth pipes because he couldn't find anything that could replace plastic and rubber.

The cost of making this kind of tube is not low, but the good thing is that it is easy to collect and transport, and it can be reused.

The automatic water-drawing device is relatively simple to make, and the bamboo transported by Chu Qing from Yibin Mansion plays a big role.

Drill two holes on both sides of a large bucket to make the water inlet and outlet, connect them with opened bamboo pipes, and place them next to the wellhead.

Then block the bamboo pipe at the water outlet, fill the bucket with water, cover it with an oilcloth, and tie it tightly with a rope to seal it.

At this time, pull out the plug of the water outlet bamboo pipe, and use the pressure generated when the water is released, and the well water will be naturally pumped out.

Connect the water outlet to the tarpaulin water pipe, tie the connection tightly, and this "infinitely long" water pipe can be pulled into the field for watering.

Chu Qing's family has a lot of land, so they naturally have to think of some ways to water their own land, so they made this kind of water pumping equipment.

Naturally, some were given as gifts to the three villages.

This is the "newbie village" where Chu Qing came to this world, especially Wushu Village. They kindly accepted Chu Qing's mother and son and gave them a way to make a living. Chu Qing has always been grateful.

Over the years, whether it is donating animal-powered plows, various saplings, grain seeds, or providing them with working conditions, Chu Qing feels that adding icing on the cake is not as good as providing timely assistance. When farmland is difficult to irrigate, helping solve problems is her real mission.

Ways to give back.

Although the water pumped up in this way does not have high pressure and it takes some time to water an acre of land, the continuous water supply and movable water pipes save a lot of labor in watering the villages.

Of course, when people use well water to irrigate their fields, they are still very economical because they are afraid of draining the wells. This year is dry and they don't know when the groundwater will be replenished.

In any case, Chu Qing came all the way from Yibin Mansion, and only the crops here grew best.

Chu Qing raised her feet and looked at her trousers. There were locusts there, but they were not densely packed. Looking around, she could see that there were chickens and ducks walking around in the fields of each house, but the density was too low.

Chuqing's water pipes gave crops a chance to survive, and also gave locusts a chance to hatch and grow. Therefore, there were a lot of locusts in the fields, but they were far from the state Xu Guangze said.

The chickens and ducks raised by farmers were released into the fields. These locusts, which could only jump but not fly, provided them with sufficient nutrients, and the number of locusts was greatly reduced.

Chu Qing saw the children in the distance using willow sticks to direct the chickens and ducks to only go in ditches and not in ridges. They were all very serious.

Xu Guangze said that this has also formed a kind of comparison among the children. Whose field has fewer locusts and fatter chickens and ducks are the targets of comparison.

Nowadays, in schools, those who study well are "other people's children"; but in the fields, those who fatten up chickens and ducks are "other people's children".

Chu Qing came back mainly to deliver food. After delivering it, he left for Xinlun Prefecture.

Entering Xinlun Prefecture, we passed through the 108th Village, where chickens and ducks were very interesting. There were chickens and ducks all over the mountains and down the mountains. Herding them was much more difficult than in Jizhou.

But the 108 villages are now very united, no longer like the scattered mess in the past. Even if some chickens and ducks are lost, each farmer will help raise and collect them, waiting for their owners to find them.

And in order to distinguish them easily, they all thought of ways, such as tying a small piece of cloth on the wings or neck, writing a name on it or sewing a flower on it, or even if it didn't work, they would find a hemp rope and tie a knot as a mark.


Chapter completed!