After the farmland is over, it is time for the performance of the cart. The cart is more efficient, and it can sow forty or fifty acres of land a day, which is extremely efficient. Then, when the spring plowing and sowing are over, it will not start in April. In other countries, spring plowing has just been carried out in a small part.

Seeing that the whole country was about to rest, Marin felt a little wasteful. Suddenly, he remembered that he could plant grass!

The so-called grass planting does not refer to planting grass for greening in later generations, but planting forage grass. It is mainly alfalfa and ryegrass.

Ryegrass is not rye, the two are two kinds of things. Ryegrass is also called triticale wheat, which is a grain crop. However, ryegrass is a forage grass, which belongs to another thing.

The most powerful place for ryegrass is that they are born in more than a year. In other words, they can be harvested many times a year. Of course, they can also be directly grazed to let the cattle and sheep eat grass on the ground. After eating, they rush to another place. After a month, the ryegrass will grow again and can be grazed again.

Therefore, in later pastures, mixed seeding of ryegrass and alfalfa were generally used. For example, Australia generally adopted the technology of mixed seeding of alfalfa and ryegrass.

Why do we need to mix it with alfalfa? Because alfalfa is a legume crop that can fix nitrogen. Plant alfalfa and can fertilizer the land. Ryegrass is a crop that consumes ground abilities. Growing ryegrass alone even requires fertilizer.

Mix the alfalfa and ryegrass from the fertilizer field, so that the effects of the nitrogen-fixing fertilizer field of alfalfa can be used, and at the same time "maintain" ryegrass. In this way, there is no need to fertilize the pasture. Moreover, alfalfa itself is a top-quality forage grass.

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However, most of the grasslands in Beihai Country are local weeds, and the livestock effect is not good. It is difficult for cattle and sheep to grow fat after eating them.

So, Marin came up with it - why not take advantage of the opportunity of spring plowing and plant alfalfa and ryegrass as much as possible in order to cultivate farmland?

Alfalfa nitrogen-fixing fertilizer land, ryegrass can provide multiple rounds of forage for livestock. As long as the forage planting is done well, Beihai will raise more horses, cattle and sheep in the future.

Moreover, these professional forage grasses are rich in nutrition and can also be used as feed, instead of food, and used to raise horses...

In addition, Malin also plans to carry out crop rotation. Beihai has enough land, but it is very labor-intensive to keep growing grain on a piece of land. Although there is a complete fertilizer technology, it is not as fertile as the land itself.

Marin's plan was to use arable land and grassland for rotation. He planned to reclaim equally large or even larger grasslands around the arable land, sow alfalfa and ryegrass. With the function of alfalfa's nitrogen-fixing fertilizer, the grassland will become fertile in one or two years.

The arable land on the edge becomes barren because it consumes fertility. But it doesn’t matter. After one or two years, the arable land and grassland are exchanged. The original grassland grows grain, while the original arable land grows alfalfa and ryegrass. In this way, the ground force is maintained.

Moreover, planting grasslands with professional forage can also allow farmers to raise horses, cattle and sheep on a large scale. Not to mention, the feed for horses used for arable land alone is sufficiently supplied.

You should know that although Eastern European and Mongolian horses eat a lot of grass, eating professional and nutritious forage is different from eating weeds. If you eat too much weed, the horse will grow thin and lose energy. If you eat grass every day, you will be fat and strong. During busy farming, you will be more vigorous to pull the plow and pull the cart.

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So, Malin ordered that farmers who had finished their spring plowing and planting continue to plow the land on the edge of the farmland to plant professional forage.

Why plough the land? Because we have to kill the original weeds. If the soil is ploughed, the roots of the weeds will be exposed to the air and endure the spring cold. Then, we will freeze to death.

There are no herbicides these days. If you want to solve the weeds, you can only dry them like this. After the weeds are frozen to death, you will mix alfalfa and ryegrass. In this way, you can successfully replace the original weeds with professional forage grass.

With the order, the farmers continued to move and continued to cultivate the land beside the cultivated land.

But after the land was plowed, Marin discovered something extremely embarrassing - he did not have enough grass seeds...

This era was not an era of highly modernized animal husbandry in later generations. Europeans in this era did not pay attention to the cultivation of professional forage grass. Only Beihai Kingdom has cultivated a lot of alfalfa and stored a lot of alfalfa seeds.

However, this reserve is insignificant compared to the huge Beihai country. You should know that Beihai country has 12 million mu of arable land. If it is based on the rotational process, at least 12 million mu of pasture land needs to be planted.

But the alfalfa seeds in Beihai Country are only enough to sow 1 million mu, less than one-tenth of the demand.

As for ryegrass seeds, there are quite a few in England. Because in England, sheep are mainly raised by ryegrass. But Marin sent people to buy them, and only raised enough to plant 1.2 million acres. After all, England only has a lot of wild ryegrass, and they did not deliberately plant and cultivate ryegrass, so the number of seeds is limited.

Then, Marin became embarrassed - more than 10 million acres of grassland were plowed in China, and as a result, only 2.2 million acres of seeds were available...

In desperation, Marin had to order some grain seeds to spread on the land that lacked seeds. Originally, he wanted to sow rye seeds. However, considering the needs of animal husbandry, Marin ordered half of the rye seeds to spread and half of the oat seeds to spread on more than 9 million acres of grassland.

There are too many rye seeds in the Beihai Kingdom, and the warehouses are full of them. Marin specially sent people to other countries and regions to purchase a lot of oat seeds and came back to sow.

Because it is spreading, not scientific and reasonable sowing. Therefore, Marin did not expect the yield of these plowed grasslands to be. Fortunately, both rye and oats are very strong in vitality. At that time, at least there will be some harvest...

Anyway, whether it is these extensively grown rye or oats, they are used to feed livestock. The best yield is available. If not, the straw can be chopped and fed to the livestock...

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! But because of the embarrassment this year, Marin specially ordered the establishment of the Beihai Kingdom seed cultivation base and began to cultivate alfalfa and ryegrass seeds on a large scale in preparation for the needs of the coming year.

In the future, Beihai Kingdom will use professional mixed sowing technology to gradually transform most of the wastelands in Beihai Kingdom into pasture fields.

In this way, while farming, farmers can also raise many horses, cattle and sheep. Even the harvested grass can be used to feed pigs.

If used to raise horses, combined with silage technology, the horses can be raised to be fat and strong. Once a war breaks out, all manors can bring out a batch of fat and strong military horses for use in war.

Moreover, these grasslands that are mixed with alfalfa and ryegrass can also be exchanged with arable land, becoming arable land with fertile ground. The two are rotated every two or three years, and agriculture and animal husbandry are both good.

Even after enough forage, Marin planned to force the raising of dairy cows or milk sheep in all manors in the future. In this way, every child in the farm can drink high-nutritional milk or goat milk...

At that time, the Beihai Kingdom will be like the Netherlands, where agriculture and animal husbandry were extremely developed in later generations, because the people had sufficient milk sources, which led to everyone's height and strength. In this way, once a war broke out, the Beihai Kingdom could also pull out a large number of tall and strong soldiers. If they fought for bayonets, the masters would have an advantage in the end. The Japanese soldiers in later generations had such good military qualities and strong stinging skills, but they would still suffer when encountering the Northwest Army's Big Sword Team. It was no other problem, it was not a problem of ability, but a problem of insufficient height and arm length. No matter how good the skills were, a height of 1.5 meters, would still suffer in front of the strong men of the Northwest Army's masters. Only when shooting each other, the Japanese would have the upper hand...

Even if they are not very professional in the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese will not have the upper hand. At most, they can rely on their powerful technology to cause great casualties to the Eighth Route Army. But in the end, the Japanese are at a disadvantage. Why? The veterans who have been trained for many years are different from the militia recruited from the countryside. Even if the casualties are equal, the Japanese suffer a great loss. There is no way, they are not tall enough and their arms are too short, and fighting for bayonets is at a disadvantage. Even if they have good skills and rely on their long hands, they can compete with you to compete with each other.

Therefore, after World War II, the Japanese became ruthless and the whole people drank milk and ate beef. As a result, in the 21st century, the Japanese were about the same height as those of the Chinese, and even slightly surpassed.

During World War II, the origin of the Japanese can be judged based on their height. For example, when seeing a group of high-heighted Japanese, the commander can determine that this is not a local Japanese, but may be a second Goryeo. A group of Japanese who are about 1.5 meters tall or 1.6 meters tall... Well, local Japanese are more difficult to deal with... Although the Japanese played by Teacher Pan is more stupid and does not conform to the facts, his height does not lie. Even Teacher Pan's height is a very standard height among the Japanese during World War II. Otherwise, the Japanese would not be called "Divines" at that time... As for the height difference in anti-Japanese dramas, it is because the extras who play Japanese are all Chinese... Moreover, those who dare to be involved in the entertainment industry are not low in height, so they give people the illusion that "the Japanese are not short"... Of course, watching TV and learning history is a brainless behavior, and it is not recommended...
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