In the blink of an eye, it’s autumn harvest again.
The weather has been very good this year, there have been no disasters, and the crops in the fields are growing well.
Farmers have been busy for a year and are looking forward to a good harvest.
The ears of corn are always long, and the grains on them are plump and firm. There can be two or three ears of corn on one stalk. Who would be unhappy to see it?
There are bunches of bean pods on the more than one and a half feet of soybean stalks. Each one has plump seeds, and the golden beans inside are revealed with a grin. Who wouldn't be happy to see it?
Purple sorghum, golden ears of grain, heavy bent over and head lowered.
A gust of wind blew by, and the ears of sorghum and grains nodded and swayed with the wind, as if they were dancing to celebrate the harvest. Who wouldn't like it?
Autumn harvest, no matter how tiring it is, is still joyful.
This year, the Second Brigade not only planted large fields.
Yu Shouguang actually followed Xu Shiyan's instructions and planted all the ginseng fields used for last year's production with soybeans.
The soybeans grew unexpectedly well, which made everyone very happy.
Needless to say, these soybeans are not within the quota set by the superiors, so there is no need to hand them over.
When the time comes, the soybean oil will be sent to the oil mill to be pressed. The family can share some of the soybean oil, and the soybean cake can be kept for top dressing on the ginseng field next year.
Then the ginseng field will increase production, and everyone's income will increase.
Ouch, when I think about it, I feel that life is very promising.
During the autumn harvest season, even the students were on farm leave, and everyone in the team, old and young, who could work, had to work in the fields.
After finishing the work in the team, I still have to take back the little bit of private land I have at home.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Xu are on the mountain. The team doesn't need them for the autumn harvest, but they can't keep their own land.
So Xu Chenghou stayed behind to stay at the ginseng land, while Xu Shiyan left early in the morning and returned late to collect his own land.
Su Anying was more than eight months pregnant and had a big belly. She also wanted to help out, but Xu Shiyan was so frightened that he quickly coaxed his wife home.
In his previous life, Xu Shiyan was seriously injured in an accident in a mine and could not move.
At that time, all the brothers had moved away, and Xu Chenghou was busy with work in the team.
The Xu family has private land and a small piece of wasteland. They are really busy, so they let Su Anying go back to pick sweet potatoes while pregnant with her child.
Nowadays, the Xu family does not have so much private land, and there is no small piece of land. Besides, Xu Shiyan is doing well, how can he let his pregnant wife work?
The two families didn't have much private land, less than an acre, and Xu Shiyan quickly collected it.
Just at this time, the team informed that starting from September 18th, the No. 2 bridge would start to be visited.
As a technician, Xu Shiyan naturally had to go along with him.
On the 18th, Xu Shiyan led a group of young men straight to the No. 2 Bridge. When they got there, they arranged for people to work.
Xu Shiyan took Zhao Jianshe, Yang Chunming, Feng Chao and others straight to the 50-foot experimental ginseng field that was topdressed last year.
"I don't care about anything else. Let's lift these fifty feet out today.
Scale it on the spot and compare it with the ginseng field next to it to see how effective the bean cake water top dressing is."
Xu Shiyan pointed at the fifty-foot mallet and said with confidence.
In fact, there is no need to take out the mallet. Just looking at the mallet seedlings above, there is an obvious difference.
The 50 feet of top dressing here, the stick seedlings can grow half a foot taller than without top dressing, and the stems are also thick, some can be as big as a little finger.
With this seedling, how can the mallet underneath be any worse?
Without saying anything, everyone started to remove the ginseng shed and start gathering ginseng.
Yang Chunming twirled the three-toothed spoon and brought up three at once.
"Oh, this mallet is really good. Look, it's quite good."
With a shake of the three teeth, the three sticks were exposed. Sure enough, they were white, plump and juicy, and they looked good.
When others heard this, they were also anxious, and they quickly began to dig with their three-pronged tools.
Then, I heard Feng Chao also say that Bang Chui looks good.
The 50-foot mallet used as a test field is exactly a string.
There were also people playing ginseng nearby. When everyone heard that the club was big here, they all came to join in the fun.
Others brought over a dozen stick trees from there for comparison.
In comparison, it is indeed different. The ones with top dressing are larger than those without top dressing.
"Okay, put these mallets into separate bags, mark them when you go back, and process them separately."
It is not only necessary to test the yield of water ginseng, but also to test the shipment rate, so as to determine the real effect of top dressing.
Xu Shiyan had to speak well. Zhao Jianshe and others followed Xu Shiyan's instructions and took out the fifty-foot mallets. They packed them individually and wrote marks on the sacks with pens.
By the time I finished my work in the afternoon, the fifty-foot mallet had filled eleven sacks.
When I went up the mountain in the morning, I brought a big steel scale with me.
So a few good guys came over, found wooden poles and inserted them into the rings of the steelyard, and hooked the scale hooks onto the sacks.
The young men on both sides lifted the wooden poles and lifted the sacks off the ground. Someone at the other end fiddled with the large weight until the scale beam raised its head slightly, and then reported the number.
"Ninety-eight pounds."
The sacks of this era were small and heavy for beans and other items, and most of the sticks weighed around 100 kilograms.
All eleven sacks were weighed, and then the weight of the sacks was determined. Finally, it was calculated that the total weight of fifty-foot-long sacks was a little over one thousand kilograms and one hundred kilograms of water ginseng.
Two kilograms of soil are deducted from one sack, which means that on average, one foot yields just over twenty kilograms.
As for the side without top dressing, the best one is a stick weighing one foot and sixteen kilograms.
In this comparison, after top dressing, the average yield per foot of stick increased by about four pounds, reaching 25%.
This data is already very impressive. If all the three thousand feet are topdressed this year, will the yield be enough?
Everyone was very happy. The test proved that Xu Shiyan's method of fermenting bean cakes for top dressing was feasible and could effectively increase yields.
This is definitely good news and worth celebrating.
Everyone happily loaded the sticks into the cart and drove the cart back down the mountain.
As soon as he arrived at the processing plant, before the truck could be unloaded, Yu Shouguang hurried over to ask about the situation of Bang Chui.
Autumn was too busy. Yu Shouguang had to sit in the team and arrange various affairs, so he had no time to go up the mountain.
Before Xu Shiyan could speak, the people following him started talking about the production of sticks.
Especially the 50 feet of top dressing, the yield reached a new height.
When Yu Shouguang and others heard this, they almost jumped up with joy. A 25% increase in production was unimaginable.
"Xiao Xu, you have made a great contribution. When you plant sticks this autumn, remember to apply base fertilizer on them all."
Yu Shouguang was so excited that he was talking incoherently. As the secretary of the Second Brigade, he knew best what increasing production represented.
"Uncle Yu, the processing plant also has to make goods separately. We also have to test how the mallets will be shipped after top dressing."
Xu Shiyan looked at Yu Shouguang's happy energy and didn't want to disturb him, but he had to explain something.
"Okay, okay, leave this matter to me, don't worry."
Yu Shouguang immediately called the person in charge of the processing plant and told them to process them separately.
The processing factory received orders from Yu Shouguang and knew the importance of the matter.
Therefore, a separate manpower was arranged to be responsible for the processing of these mallets, and a separate area was set aside to dry the dried goods. Even the forks on which the goods were placed were marked.
"Secretary, don't worry, these guys will definitely not get mixed up. I promise you, if something goes wrong, you will knock me down."