"These farmers don't even know how to collect fertilizers, and the land is so thin that it's crazy if the grain output can increase! Do you know what three-dimensional circulation farming is? What is leguminous nitrogen fixation? What is supplementary base fertilizer? What?

Called..." Liu Baiyulian

He uttered more than a dozen nouns like a cannonball, and the county magistrate was confused for a moment. His family also runs a large estate, and his knowledge of agricultural technology is much better than that of ordinary farmers, but Liu

Bai Yu's mouth full of new terms Guan County Magistrate is really...

"I don't understand, I don't understand at all!"

"Nonsense, whoever is born understands it. If you don't understand, just learn it!" Liu Baiyu looked at Magistrate Guan with contempt.

Magistrate Guan is indeed a great talent. An ancient man who barely understood the basic knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology actually learned various methods of accumulating fertilizers in the "Agricultural Encyclopedia" and knew them but did not know them.

So...

Of course, there is something that County Magistrate Guan simply cannot accept, and that is the "Agricultural Encyclopedia" which believes that chicken manure is also feed and cannot be wasted.

Chickens have short digestive tracts, and the feces they excrete contains many nutrients. In modern times, there is a kind of circular agriculture that raises chickens next to fish ponds and feeds the chicken manure to the fish.

"Feeding chicken manure to fish is really a bit..." County Magistrate Guan suddenly remembered that he and his wife ate a carp at noon. Although he knew that the carp was wild, and even if it was the best way to raise fish in the county, it would definitely not be good.

I know how to feed chicken manure to fish, but I still feel nauseous.

Liu Baiyu didn't care. If he had the conditions, he would vigorously develop circular agriculture. Looking at Magistrate Guan's expression, he thought he was a bit hypocritical:

"That said, wild fish will also eat the feces of other fish, as well as the carrion of corpses, broken vegetable leaves, etc. If you want to eat the so-called clean fish in your mind, then you can only raise it yourself since childhood!"

"Well... I don't have to eat fish. It's okay!" Magistrate Guan was a Confucian scholar who had been cultivating himself since childhood, and a slight mysophobia was unavoidable.

His mind was full of backward ideas! Liu Baiyu deliberately tried to seduce him and continued:

"Since Magistrate Guan thinks it's a bit dirty to feed chicken manure to fish! Then feed it to pigs. Let me tell you, pigs like to eat chicken manure after fermentation."

"This... can we not mention the matter of feeding this and that with chicken manure? It's really disgusting." Thinking about the smell of chicken manure, Magistrate Guan again thought of the meat he had eaten the day before yesterday. The meat originally tasted better.

Yes, Magistrate Guan thought about it several times. When Liu Baiyu mentioned it, the smell of pork suddenly turned into the smell of chicken manure, and Magistrate Guan retched for no reason...

"Actually, you have never seen free-range pigs. They are all for food, including garbage and human feces. Compared with these, chicken manure is actually quite clean!"

Zhang Tianhong couldn't stand it any longer and hurriedly said to Magistrate Guan: "Brother Xian, my pig was raised in captivity and fed only pig grass. It is very clean..." After saying this, he rolled his eyes at Liu Baiyu.

Is it clean if they are kept in captivity? If the pig manure is not cleaned up in time, will the pigs eat less of the same kind of manure? Liu Baiyu vomited silently in his heart, but seeing Magistrate Guan’s pale face, he also felt that it would be too much. Going too far would be counterproductive.

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"To be honest, I don't like this feeding method either. When there is enough feed in the future, I will use it as fertilizer."

"This is good, this is good, this feces is better used as fertilizer, better used as fertilizer." County Magistrate Guan said incoherently.

“It’s actually good to grow rice and raise ducks!”

Liu Baiyu also mentioned duck farming to Magistrate Guan. Ducks are actually much more profitable in poultry farming than chickens. Ducks are omnivorous poultry, can forage for themselves during grazing, tolerate rough feeding, and have a high feed conversion rate.

If you raise ducks in the rice fields during the first rice planting period in spring and let the ducks forage in the rice fields, you can not only make use of the snails, small fish and shrimps in the rice fields, but also eliminate pests and weeds.

Moreover, after the rice in the rice fields is harvested, the ducks are driven in to clear the fields and eat the grains and scattered rice left in the fields. This is much more convenient and thorough than manual cleaning.

There is also a nice term in modern Japan called "duck rice farming", which is a purely natural rice farming method that young people like.

Magistrate Guan really had some practical agricultural experience, and he directly pointed out the bubble of Liu Baiyu’s magical duck bomb:

"It is good to raise ducks, but if you want to raise ducks and geese, you need to have water. Otherwise, just like raising chickens, you have to collect feed. The breeding conditions are restricted, so it is not as easy to promote as chickens. Besides, the drought has been severe in recent years.

, there are basically no rice farmers left in this county, and many small ponds have dried up."

Liu Baiyu originally wanted to talk about his secret of raising maggots and feeding chickens, but considering Magistrate Guan's mental capacity, he had to stop talking about it. However, he wanted to impress Magistrate Guan, so naturally he couldn't admit that he was bragging:

"I'm telling you something about the duck! Do you know the water hyacinth?"

"Never heard of it!"

You’ve heard that you are a time traveler! Liu Baiyu vomited silently in his heart, but if you haven’t heard of it, it’s easier for you to fool yourself, right? It’s not that Liu Baiyu has never experimented with the time travel artifacts tilapia and crayfish, but they were from Shandong during the Little Ice Age

The temperature was really speechless, the tilapia and crayfish were listless, and they didn't see any advantage in reproducing quickly, so they had no choice but to take out the disaster of water hyacinth.

"Water hyacinth is a great thing! As long as the current is not too fast, it can grow in the water, and it grows very fast. It can cover half of the river in one night, and a new plant can be formed by cutting off the rhizome.

Reproduction is also fast!”

"Can something that doesn't care about the environment just be used as feed?" Magistrate Guan, as an ancient person, has no concept of disaster plants? In his eyes, it is only right that things that grow so fast are not tasty.

, is the balance of heaven.

"The flowers and young leaves can be eaten directly. They are fragrant and refreshing, and have the effect of moisturizing the intestines and laxatives! The rest can only be used as feed."

This is not Liu Baiyu's casual statement. The indigenous people in Malaysia and other places often use the young leaves and flowers of water hyacinth as vegetables. Liu Baiyu has also tasted it himself. It is not bad. Compared with cabbage and so on, it is naturally a big shortcoming.

, compared to the wild vegetables that ordinary people eat now... Is it so good that I don’t know where it is?

Of course, the main reason why modern water hyacinth cannot be eaten is that it concentrates harmful substances such as mercury, cadmium, and lead in the water. It is simply a heavy metal concentration camp. But in the late Ming Dynasty, there was no trace of industry. Do you expect these things to be in the water?

Moreover, Liu Baiyu actually tested it. Water hyacinth is indeed a disaster crop for future generations. Throwing in dozens of water hyacinths, a small pond was filled up in a few days. Liu Baiyu collected samples and three other things.

They were given to Magistrate Guan together!

"Yes, yes, this flower is very beautiful. How can you just give water hyacinth a name? It's vulgar, vulgar!" Magistrate Guan's mood improved, and his true nature as a scholar came back, and he wanted to give water hyacinth an elegant name.

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"Then let's call it water hyacinth! But just look at it, it's not as delicious as cabbage, it's just better than wild vegetables!"

"Eichhornia crassipes? What a good name! The more I look at it, the more I think Liu Xiandi is a great talent! But what are these three?"
Chapter completed!