30 acres of arable land per day! Marin was so excited when he thought about it. Why? Because he, who owns a colony on the American continent, the most lacks land. The most lacks is population and efficiency.
Now, one plow can cultivate 30 acres of land per day. Moreover, it only takes one or two people to control it (it is reported that one is a troupe, and the other is responsible for adjusting the depth of the plowshare, which is an auxiliary, and women can also be competent). So, based on the spring plowing for one month, wouldn’t the family be able to cultivate 900 acres of land?
Marin was so happy that she was very happy. If the family could farm 900 mu of land, wouldn’t 100,000 households grow 90 million mu? Oh my God, how much food does this require...
Marin was very happy all the way, and he was starting to worry now - what should I do if there is too much food in the future? Feed the chickens...
But when he arrived at the scene with several ministers and Caesar and saw the legendary "farming miracle", he almost turned his nose awkward...
Damn! What is the "farming miracle"? Feelings are about pulling a plow cart with many horses!
Marin suppressed his anger and observed it carefully, and found that this so-called "farming miracle" was actually a plow cart made of 12 horses, pulling together a plow cart made of iron racks.
This plow truck made of steel bars and wood has three curved plows under it. The designer spent his time connecting the three curved plow reviews horizontally with a steel bar.
When the land is not cultivated or turns, the person who assists in the plow truck cart cart cart cart cart cart cart cart cart cart cart pulls back the three curved plows and lifts the plow knife to the plow. There are three gears in total, and the last gear is the gear where the plow truck leaves the ground, which is used when it is rushing or turning.
If you push forward, you will be shallow tillage, and the porch is downward, but not much deeper. This gear is mainly used to loosen the soil for the pasture grass. The requirements for planting forage grass are not high, just pineal soil. And if you tillage shallow, the speed is also fast.
As for the first level, it is naturally deep cultivation, which is the normal level for arable land. The 30 acres of arable land mentioned earlier is naturally the level used.
In addition, when the inventor Plande used a plow truck to demonstrate the farmland, Marin discovered that these three curved plows were not side by side, but had front and back.
As for why this is the case, Marin understood at a glance - because after the three curved plow walls of each of the three curved plows are broken, they will pull the soil to both sides of the plow wall and separate them. Then, they will be discarded in the land. If the three plows are side by side, then when the soil is thrown to both sides after the plow wall is broken, the soil will easily interfere with the plow on both sides and affect the progress of the plow truck...
Therefore, the designer cleverly designed the three curved plows as oblique, and the three plows were not on the same horizontal plane. In this way, when throwing soil to both sides, there will be no interference with each other.
Marin had to admit that this designer was still very smart and had a high level of craftsmanship. However, after seeing the 12 horses pulling a cart in front, Marin became very angry...
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Damn! That's 12 horses! Normal people can afford to raise so many horses? No matter how clever your plow cart is designed, what's the point? Feed for 12 horses alone can make ordinary farmers bankrupt!
What is the point of raising 12 horses for a family? When farming, 12 horses can be put into battle and speed up the farming speed. But what about after farming? The food consumed by 12 horses for a day is equivalent to 60 people!
Even if you use a carriage to transport goods, a farmer will bring at most one or two horses to pick up the goods and do a side job? After all, no matter how many horses you have, you must have enough grooms to drive the horse!
In that case, during the slack season, 10 or 11 horses will be free for 12 horses, and it will be useless for consuming food. It is simply not cost-effective!
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However, Marin also had to admit that seeing these 12 horses plowing the land together, the speed was really fast, no less than that of the hand-held tractors in later generations.
In his previous life, Ma Lin's father also bought a second-hand hand tractor for the farmland at home. However, the second-hand Changchai hand tractor had a maximum of 15 mu of cultivated land per day. However, in later life, there were many people in China and few land, each family only had a few mu of land, and 15 mu of cultivated land per day was definitely enough, and it could also help the villagers cultivate land.
In terms of the speed of arable land, this plow truck can cultivate 30 mu of land per day, which is twice as high as a hand-held tractor.
However, Marin remembers that when the hand-held tractor in the later family cultivated the land, there was only one plow called a single plow. Only large and medium-sized tractors would use multi-pile plows. Because the horsepower of large and medium-sized tractors is large enough...
Speaking of horsepower, Marin looked at the plowing cart and looked weird. Because, when he saw the 12 horses pulling the cart, he thought of a word - 12 horsepower...
Yes, 12 horsepower! This is a real 12 horsepower! Isn’t it? Isn’t it? Isn’t it just 12 horsepower to pull the plow truck together?
And the most coincidental thing is that in later generations, the hand-held tractor at Marin's home seemed to be a 12-horsepower small single-cylinder diesel engine...
However, the hand-held tractor can only cultivate 15 acres of land a day. The main reason is that it uses a single-share plow. The 12-horse plow truck also has 12 horsepower, but it uses three plows.
Logically, this should be cultivated for 45 acres of land every day. After all, there are three plows. But the actual situation is not calculated like this, mainly because the tractor can keep cultivated the land as long as there is oil. However, in this same 12 horsepower plow truck system, 12 horses are tired and need to rest for a while.
Therefore, although there are two more plows, the amount of cultivated land per day is only 30 acres because of the need to rest for horses. But this data is already very scary in this era. The only disadvantage is that the horses eat too much, and after the farming is over, too many horses eat rice...
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During lunch, at the dinner table, Malin raised the sharp question of the cost of raising horses, and asked Prande, the inventor of the plow truck. After all, even if the horse is not eaten by 5 servings of food every day like a war horse, on average, there is still food for two or three people every day. It is not cost-effective to raise so many horses in a farmer's family.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hearing Marin's questioning, Plande was stunned for a long time. But in the end, Plande's mind flashed and thought of the wording of response:
"Duke, it is definitely not cost-effective to use an ordinary European horse to pick up horses. However, it is fine if you use a Crimean horse that you usually eat grass! Usually, the Crimean horse (Eastern European Mongolian horse) only eats grass and only needs feed when working!"
Marin was happy at first, but quickly frowned:
"The Eastern European Mongolian horses in Crimea are not that strong, right?" The Eastern European Mongolian horses in Crimea are medium-sized horses, and are not as strong as the heavy-duty horses commonly used in Western Europe.
Prade said indifferently:
"Then add 3 more horses to pull the plow cart!"
Marin shook his head and said:
"It's still inappropriate. Horses on the grasslands in Eastern Europe do eat grass. But that size is really not suitable for work. Don't waste the horses if you just plough in spring."
Plande thought for a while and said:
"Duke, why not, we should use local horse-drawn horses to breed stronger but graze-eating new horse breeds? Even if the new horse-drawn horses are not as strong as local horse-drawn horses, as long as they can work. At that time, if 12 crimean horses are not as good as 12 local horses, then use 15 horses, right?"
Marin thought about it and it was true. If he used the local horse-drawn stallion and the mare of the Eastern European Mongolian horse in Crimea for breeding, he might get horse breeds that can not only live with grass, but also have certain strength and endurance to cultivate the land. At that time, the cost of feeding will not be a problem. Because, the breeds of Eastern European Mongolian horses can be avoided from eating food. Raising a few more horses in normal times will not be economic pressure.
Moreover, Marin remembers that the Don hippo (which is the type of Mongolian horse in Eastern Europe) in later generations were from the Eastern and Western types.
Among them, the Eastern type is the current Crimean Eastern European Mongolian horse, which is smaller in size and is a medium-sized horse suitable for light cavalry riding. The Western type is probably a mixed European heavy horse bloodline, which is larger in size and belongs to a hybrid and leverage type. This Western type of Dun Hippo, which is used both in riding and leverage, is used for farming and leverage, which is used for farming and leverage, which is used for farming and leverage, which is used for farming and leverage. This Western type of Dun Hippo is used for farming and leverage. It can also be used as a transfer horse when marching and fighting.
In addition, Western hippos that use both riding and pulling are also hard-working and can mainly eat grass. Only when working, they need to eat food.
Chapter completed!