"Those rough guys didn't embarrass me. They didn't waste their stupid efforts and opened up more than 3,000 acres of wasteland for me. I went to see it myself. The work they did was quite meticulous, and the land was tidied up.
That’s good. I also asked people to buy these sugar cane seeds. It’s true as you said. I only harvested more than 150,000 to 60,000 kilograms. This is enough for what we can do, hey!”
Zhao Liya silently calculated that based on 160,000 kilograms, it would only be enough to plant about 70 acres.
If we search harder, we will reach one hundred acres, more than one hundred acres.
For the time being, sugarcane cannot be grown in other areas, so we can only think of other places.
Zhao Liya comforted him and said: "Plant as much as you have first. It's just for the sergeants to practice their skills. If these seventy, eighty, or hundreds of acres are all planted, the scale will be much expanded in the second half of the year. I'll leave some for you there."
If you plant them here, then you can buy some more, wouldn't that be enough?"
"Brother Zhong, don't underestimate this kind of sugar cane. He also has skills. How to prepare the land, how to fertilize, how to water, how to cultivate the soil, how to peel leaves. If the conditions are good, you have to apply fertilizer again. If there is an insect infestation,
, you have to know how to deal with it quickly, minimize the impact, etc. There are many trivial things. If you have never planted them before, you will be really confused!"
"Also, sugarcane needs fertilizer. Now, even if there is enough planting, it is useless without fertilizer. Why don't you and the farmers buy more farmyard fertilizer from now on and accumulate it as compost first? The more the better, then
It will come in handy when the time comes.”
Zhong Jing was a little frustrated at first, but after listening to Zhao Liya's well-founded and reasonable analysis, he suddenly became enlightened, slapped his thigh and said with a smile: "As expected of sister Xiaoya, she is so smart! If you don't tell me, I won't do it again.
Unexpected! Okay, okay, just follow what sister Xiaoya said!"
Zhao Liya smiled and said: "I will personally explain how to plant it to your sergeants when the time comes. How about you send a dozen people to Zaihu Village to learn from it in a while? This may have better results."
Zhong Jing thought for a while and nodded: "No problem, it's just that when they went there, they said they went to learn experience elsewhere, let alone in our military camp. It's not that they are afraid, it's just that they can keep a low profile.
If anything happens, a lot of trouble can be avoided."
Zhao Liya is also the person who is most afraid of trouble, so she naturally agreed after hearing this.
She smiled again and said: "The scale of this kind of sugar cane is bound to be expanded. Now, taking advantage of the free time, a sugar pressing workshop can be built."
Zhong Jing nodded: "Well, be prepared. Okay, I'll just copy your house's construction. I'm going to build a bigger sugar-pressing workshop!"
Zhao Liya smiled, "No problem!"
Suddenly thinking of something, Zhao Liya said again: "By the way, why don't you also build a pig farm and raise pigs. In this way, you can have meat to eat in the military camp, and you can also accumulate a lot of fertilizer. Wouldn't it be good for the sergeants to have something to do?"
The more Zhao Liya thought about it, the more reliable it seemed. The military camp had enough manpower and plenty of space. It only depended on their mood to open up wasteland and occupy land. They could get any land without an owner, and there was no need to spend money to buy it. It was very convenient to do anything.
Building a very large pig farm with at least 500 fat pigs is not a stretch!
Unexpectedly, after listening to this, Zhong Jing sighed and smiled bitterly: "To be honest, sister Xiaoya, when it comes to raising pigs, I have something to say. Our military camp has raised pigs before, but, raising a
A dozen, twenty or thirty pigs are fine, but if there are too many, something will start to happen. It is too easy to get sick, that is, swine fever. Once you get sick, a lot of people will die, hey! We still don’t give up.
, I have been raising it for several times, anyway, the result is the same three times out of five times. But it makes everyone feel bad."
Later, I just couldn’t stand it anymore, it was too scary, so I just stopped raising it.
"Sister Xiaoya," Zhong Jing perked up and his eyes sparkled: "Or do you have any good ideas? You must teach us!"
Swine fever is indeed a problem.
Moreover, Zhao Liya has no way to solve this problem. Not to mention now, even in modern times, once swine fever occurs, no one can solve it. They can only watch the pigs in the entire pig farm die one after another.
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Moreover, swine fever is not completely preventable even in modern times.
Of course, the risk is much lower than now.
Zhao Liya could only shake her head: "There is no way to solve this, but a good way to effectively prevent swine fever is cleanliness. Pig pens should be cleaned frequently and ventilated, and pigs should not be allowed to drink unclean water or eat unclean food.
Especially in summer, when there are too many mosquitoes, you should smoke mugwort or the like to drive away the mosquitoes. In this way, the outbreak of swine fever can be effectively reduced."
"Furthermore, your place is big enough. Don't put all the eggs in the same basket, and don't raise all the pigs together. You should try to make the pigsty as spacious as possible, so that it can be between 150 and 150
There are more than two hundred pigs in one area, and the areas can be separated by two to three kilometers or a mountain. If four or five such pig farms are built, wouldn't it be possible to raise about a thousand pigs? Even if it happens.
Even if there is swine fever, there will be no harvest!"
Well, if there is no harvest, then it is really God's will. Just accept your fate.
Zhong Jing thought for a while and slapped his thigh: "Okay, let's do it! You can try again. Even if you are really unlucky and die from swine fever, at least the pig manure is still there!"
This is also a useful thing, so it’s not a waste!
Zhao Liya: "."
It sounds right, but I always feel like something is weird!
"Sister Xiaoya, just write me some notes later and I'll find someone to teach them to those bosses."
Even if he just listened to it like this, he wouldn't be able to remember it. This was a completely unfamiliar area to him. He could understand it at first, but it would be difficult to remember it.
Zhao Liya nodded happily and smiled: "That's no problem!"
She smiled enthusiastically and said: "I will tell you what kind of pigsty to build, as a reference. We also built it this way."
Zhong Jing nodded happily: "Okay, thank you sister Xiaoya! Sister Xiaoya is really a kind-hearted person!"
Zhao Liya said, "Whoops!" and smiled.
This kind of good guy makes people feel comfortable.
"You should also plant some sweet potatoes. One acre of sweet potato vines can support three to four pigs. You can calculate based on this ratio."
Zhao Liya worked hard to pick up the sweet potatoes: "This is a good thing. The sweet potato vines grow more and more as they are cut. After cutting, you can apply a little fertilizer or water them and they will grow quickly. They can grow longer than leeks. And they are easier to plant.
Convenient. Use sweet potato seedlings, cut the vines and bury them in the soil to survive. The sweet potato vines can be fed to pigs, and the young shoots can be fried and eaten as vegetables. When harvested in autumn, sweet potatoes can be eaten and fed to pigs. Best of all.