After coming back from the construction site in London town again, bum has been in a state of great shock, so that he can''t even walk out of his mind. Even when he gets on his beloved bus, he is not as excited as yesterday.
Obviously, seeing hundreds of meters of pouring concrete, or mud, turn into a hard stone wall that can''t be broken by a hammer, has brought an extremely severe impact on this young man''s Sanguan.
After all, for people who don''t understand chemical reactions, this kind of thing is no different from the legendary "magic", which is completely beyond the ordinary people''s cognition.
, a woodlouse who has never seen magic before, can you see magic for the first time?
"Mr. Charlotte, where shall we visit today?" After sitting on the bus seat for a long time, bum suddenly asked.
"Mr. bum, I''m mainly going to visit the farm today. In the morning, I''m going to visit the English farm, and in the afternoon, I''m going to visit the French farm." Charlotte gave the answer with a smile.
"Farm? What are you going to see at the farm? " Bum asked with some doubts.
"Last winter, the agriculture department under the administrative department reclaimed 1500 hectares of land on Odin island. The English farm and the French farm are there. There is more land available on Theron Island, about 1200 hectares of land reclaimed. There are two other farms, German farm and Spanish farm, which are organizing large-scale spring farming these days. It''s worth seeing There are a lot of things in the world... " Charlotte replied.
Bum didn''t know much about agriculture. He didn''t think much of it.
It''s just a group of farmers doing farm work. What''s good to see?
However, Gaelic was surprised. He turned his head to look at Charlotte and said in the tone of "you''re teasing me":
"Mr. Charlotte, how can we reclaim land in winter? The cold will freeze the soft soil so hard that it is impossible for farmers to dig the soil.... "
"In addition, from the end of the harvest month to the warbler month, when the weather is getting warmer, there is only half a year''s leisure time. Excluding the three months when the weather is coldest and the ground is frozen, farmers have only three months to reclaim the land."
"As far as I know, it takes a farmer more than half a month to cultivate one mu of land. In just three months, a farmer can only cultivate six mu of land at most."
"2700 hectares of land is equivalent to 40000 mu. Based on this, nearly 7000 farmers are needed. Is there so many farmers in Haichao?"
He privately estimated that the total population of the tidal islands would not exceed 10000, and it was absolutely impossible to gather 7000 farmers. Therefore, he was deeply suspicious of Charlotte''s words.
Charlotte just said with a smile:
"Mr. Gaelic, of course, the tide collar can''t have so many farmers. Even if there are enough hands, there are so many factories in the territory, and people are needed everywhere, the Lord can''t let so many people reclaim the land..."
As a matter of fact, it took less than 30 people for the Department of agriculture to complete the reclamation of 2700 hectares of land in less than half a month
When Garry chitton opened his eyes wide, he opened his mouth to question "how is this possible". But when he thought of his incredible experiences in the past two days, he closed his mouth firmly and swallowed what he wanted to say.
In any noble territory, it is impossible for 30 people to reclaim 2700 hectares of land in just half a month.
But in the tide collar, he had a vague feeling that There''s nothing they can''t do
It has to be said that after being beaten in the face several times, he finally has a long memory and knows that this magical territory can not be measured by common sense.
Sure enough, the next moment, garridge heard Charlotte.
"Mr. Gaelic, I wonder if you''ve ever heard of ''Agricultural Mechanization''
Geridge shook his head blankly like a bird with a dull head.
English farm.
On the boundless field, there are neat gullies, which seem to be full of a strange aesthetic feeling. Each gully is extremely straight, stretching to the distance, and the bottom of the gully is quite deep.
Two large magic tractors are towing two huge plows which are nearly 5 meters wide. They are not slow to scratch the soil, leaving dozens of deep scratches.
Two faint wisps of black smoke came out of the exhaust pipe on the top of the tractor. With the gentle sea breeze, it floated everywhere, smearing two eye-catching ink marks in the air.
This is the agricultural tractor made by haichaoling. Its size is bigger than that of ordinary engineering tractors on construction sites. Its length is 7 meters and its height is close to 3 meters. The diameter of two pairs of NIMA solid tires is 2 meters, which is almost the same as the average height of adults. This is absolutely a big guy.
Corresponding to the size is the power. It uses a new type of car thermal engine, with a power of up to 600 kW. Equipped with this thermal engine, the tractor has the power of terror, and can drag the huge plow behind it effortlessly.Renault this boring guy, for this kind of agricultural tractor took a very loud name: Hummer!
Yes, it''s Hummer agricultural tractor!
After the plow passed the ground, a large amount of soil was turned up and smashed, and the hard soil, which had been hardened into blocks, suddenly turned into soft mud.
Behind each plow, there are several farmers walking in the fields with baskets on their backs. From time to time, they bend down to pick up dead roots and branches and put them into the baskets behind them.
As early as last winter, the originally overgrown wasteland was reclaimed into good farmland. At this time, the two Humvee tractors were plowing the ground for the last time to prepare for the next step of "sowing".
Charlotte three people stand on the side of the road, looking at the Hummer tractor from a distance, especially bum and geridge. Since they came to the "English" farm, their chin has not closed.
In front of all this, no accident once again smashed two people''s three outlooks.
Charlotte walked forward a few steps, approached the edge of the farmland, pointed to the tractor in the distance, and said in a loud voice:
"Mr. bum, Mr. gaelich, as you can see, this is what the LORD called" agricultural mechanization ", that is, using the power of magic machinery to replace all manual labor."
"Take reclamation as an example. When the soil is frozen and hard, if you use camel animals with greater strength than cattle, you can only reclaim 1 mu of wasteland in an hour at most, but if you use Hummer tractors, you can finish the same work in less than 3 minutes."
"After working for a period of time, camel animals still need to eat and rest. They can only work eight hours a day at most, but Hummer tractors can work all the time, working up to 16 hours a day."
"By comparison, the efficiency of Hummer tractors is more than 40 times that of camel animals. In the reclamation last winter, the Department of agriculture used five Hummer tractors and reclaimed 2700 hectares of wasteland in half a month."
After a pause, he made a more sensational comparison.
"Compared with the simple human reclamation, a Hummer tractor can hold up to 5000 farmers!"
After hearing the number of "5000", bum and geridge''s eyes suddenly became a little round again, and their eyes looking at the tractor became a little wrong, as if they were looking at some very precious treasure.
At this moment, they deeply understood what is called "agricultural mechanization".
It is "one top 5000"!
Bum watched the tractor turn into a small black spot and suddenly let out a long breath.
Young people want to ask Charlotte a question - Hummer tractors sell?
But as soon as he thought that he didn''t even have the qualification to get close to the tractor, he immediately realized that most of his questions were in vain.
Although the teenagers are willing to throw 2000 jinnals or even 3000 to buy Hummer tractors, they just refuse to sell them. What can they do?
What a pity
MMP, I''m rich, but I can''t buy anything. Is there any reason
A question suddenly occurred to him:
"why do you have to reclaim land in winter? Why not in the windy month when the temperature is not low? At that time, the autumn harvest was over, the soil was not frozen, and it was easier to reclaim
Charlotte did not answer the question, but talked about another topic:
"Mr. Gaelic, I think you should know that an important reason for the low grain yield is that weeds grow too fast and occupy a lot of nutrients. As long as they can be removed, the grain yield can be greatly improved."
"However, to clean up weeds, it''s not enough to just pull out the roots on the ground. As long as the grass roots are still there, the weeds will grow again soon, and then they will have to pull up again. This is the most important and hard work of farmers."
Gaelic nodded deeply:
"Mr. Charlotte, you''re right. I once managed a farm, and I had a profound experience. As long as I didn''t pull the grass for a week, the weeds in the farmland would be everywhere..."
The weeds they talked about are the biggest culprits for the people of the alien world who have been forced to live without food.
According to the alien tradition of "everything is spicy and big", alien potatoes are bigger than fists and can be smashed to death. Wheat is also higher than people, and its height easily exceeds 2 meters.
As a matter of principle, the alien people should not worry about food and clothing if they have such powerful crops. However, "alien weeds" firmly said "no".
The vast majority of weeds are long-lived plants, they are perennial weeds, live more than ten years is no problem, this is enough to hang the weeds on the earth.
Every year after flowering and fruiting, the surface part of weeds will wither and die, but the underground part is still alive. In the spring of the next year, they will rush out of the soil, start to thrive, and soon spread all over the earth.
And their growth is generally very fierce, potatoes, wheat and other crops are difficult to dry them, if the farmers do not take good care of them, in a few months, the crops will be completely submerged by weeds.Because of this, despite the extra bonus of body size, the yield of alien crops is not much higher than that of the same kind on earth.
In addition, compared with the earth people, the alien people are especially the rice bucket.
grain production is not much higher, but consumption is much larger. Woodlouse does not want to be hungry.
Charlotte leaned over to pick up a piece of mud and kneaded it in her palm for a few times. She let the soft soil leak through her fingers, leaving only a dry grass root. He held the stem between his two fingers and showed it to geridge:
"Mr. geridge, what do you think this is?"
Without waiting for the other party to answer, he said the answer directly:
"this is the withered grass root in the winter cold. Before it is exposed to the ground, it is hidden at least half a meter underground."
"Lord, the reason why weeds are difficult to remove is that their roots go deep into the ground. If the grass roots are not removed, even if the roots are removed, they will grow quickly."
"If we turn out the soil deep in the soil when the temperature is very low, we can use the cold winter to freeze the grass roots to death. That''s why we choose to reclaim in the first snow month."
Gaelic and bum look at each other, and go to the farmland, looking for the shuttle in the soil.
They soon found that a large number of dry grass roots can be seen everywhere in the farmland, and one or several grass roots can be seen in almost every piece of soil. After a long winter, they were killed by the terrible cold.
With this degree of grass-roots density, if they survive in the soil, how many weeds will emerge in this land when the weather gets warmer?
There will definitely be a grassland in a few days!
This fully shows that Mr. Renault''s view is very correct.
Garridge had an idea in his head. If the Maxwell family did the same, could it also increase the food production of the family farm?
At this point, he was moved.
Gaelic couldn''t help glancing at bum and seeing the same idea in each other''s eyes.
However, their beautiful reverie was heartlessly broken by Charlotte.
"Lord''s investigation found that the root depth of the vast majority of weeds is less than 1 meter. As long as the soil within 1 meter can be ploughed once in winter to expose it to the cold air, most weeds can be easily killed."
"Later, the Lord ordered the manufacture of giant climbing plows with super long racks, and the development of Humvee tractors that can pull the climbing plows..."
Hearing the word "1 meter", geric turned his head and looked at a ridge in front of him. A little doubt flashed in his eyes.
If the ploughing depth is 1 meter, then the ridge and ditch should also be 1 meter. From the appearance, the ridge and ditch is only half a meter deep.
Is Mr. Charlotte bragging?
After a moment''s reflection, he stepped forward decisively and stepped into the furrow with one foot. His boots went straight through a layer of floating soil and deep into it until he reached his knees.
Sure enough, it''s 1 meter deep!
Mr. Charlotte didn''t lie.
One side of the bum saw this scene, his face showed a startled look, can''t help looking at the tractor.
My God, that tractor can dig out one meter deep soil. How powerful is it?
He suddenly realized that what he had thought was ridiculous.
Even if we know the way to eliminate weeds and improve food, can we carry it out?
If we only rely on manpower to dig out the soil one meter deep, a farmer can''t finish one mu of land for several months.
The same is true of animal power. If you want to turn out the soil one meter deep, the volume of the plow must be very large. What kind of livestock can pull this huge plow when it is still buried so deep?
Pack animals?
Forget it, save it.
I''m afraid only a super big guy like Hummer tractor can pull
Thinking of this, bum showed a trace of disappointment, and then he looked at the tractor, the light in his eyes was more fiery.
In the eyes of teenagers, the value of Hummer tractor has reached a new level.
He felt that even if he bought it for 5000 jinnals, it would be a good deal.
Unfortunately, money alone can''t move your excellency
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farms in France.
In the farm, bum and geridge saw a more magical machine.
When an agricultural tractor, which is similar to an engineering tractor, named "Mustang tractor", was driving with a square machine, they saw rows of neat pits on the soil.
Facing the eyes of two curious babies, Charlotte said a word lightly.
"Gentlemen, this is the magic seeder. The pits are filled with wheat seeds..."
This sentence immediately set off a huge tsunami in both people''s minds.what? seeder?
Ploughing can be replaced by machines, so can sowing be replaced by machines?
What other farm work can''t be done by machines?
Do farms need to hire farmers in the future?
Garridge, who had a deep understanding of farm work, was dizzy.
In his previous cognition, sowing is really a time-consuming and laborious work. The three steps of "digging a hole", "putting in wheat seeds" and "burying" seem simple, but repeating them thousands of times is by no means an easy farm work.
Sowing must be very careful, always pay attention to row spacing, can not be too sparse or too dense, digging and filling holes also pay attention to, after all, spring sowing is so important, do not do well do not expect the harvest in half a year.
But the sowing speed can not be too slow, because the annual sowing deadline is only a few days, the slow sowing speed will delay the season, and then affect the yield.
In short, sowing must be fast and good.
Because of this, sowing is the most difficult time for farmers. After a day''s hard work, they can''t even straighten up.
But now, what does he see?
Even the most skilled and strong farmer, the speed of sowing is thrown by this planter.
In just one minute, the 8-meter-wide planter was dragged forward 50 meters by the Mustang tractor. On the 400 square meters of land, a large area of small pits formed a neat array, which was more neat than the ruler.
What area of land can a farmer plant in one minute? 3 square meters or 5 square meters?
Farmers also feel tired, they need a lot of time to rest to supplement their physical strength, but the planter can work without sleep.
In terms of efficiency, a planter is equal to at least 300 farmers.
It''s easy for Gaelic to figure that out.
In this moment, he finally had a deep understanding of "agricultural mechanization".
There is no doubt that this is a great change!
Mr. Renault, who put forward the idea of "agricultural mechanization", is a great wise man with more profound wisdom than the starry sky!