Chapter 1527: Farm life in Beihai (Part 1)

Klosters is a small village in Lyle County, East Friesland, North Sea. Because of its proximity to the Ames River, it has developed agriculture and is one of the richest rural areas in the North Sea.

When the early morning sun shone down, the village of only 300 people was boiling. It is now March when farming is busy. Although the northern part of Germany is still a bit cold and has not reached the optimal planting period, farming in Beihai has already begun.

Cultivating land and loosening soil can be done in advance. Of course, it can't be too long in advance. Otherwise, after a few rains, the land is hardened again.

However, it was too late to cultivate land with cattle and horses at this juncture. Therefore, in early spring and March, farmers brought their cattle to the ground and plowed the ground.

There is no shortage of cattle in the North Sea country. Although part of the 10,000 cattle imported from the Crimean Khanate are killed every year to eat meat, most of them are still left to be cultivated as cattle.

Marin's plan to kill cattle is very meticulous, first of all, he will not order the killing of cows. Unless, the cow is old and unable to bear. Or, there are obvious defects, and healthy offspring cannot be left. Therefore, every time imported cows, most of the cows will be retained and distributed to various villages.

As for the bulls, it is quite miserable. Marin will first select the strongest batch of bulls and keep the most breeding bulls. In addition, hornless bulls will also be selected first as breeding bulls. As for the remaining bulls, Marin will also make a test, that is, not obedient

First, Marin will put a nose ring on those bulls. If the resistance is fierce in the upper nose ring, slaughter directly. After putting on the nose ring, these cows will be pulled into the ground to see if they are listening.

Hearing hello, naturally left as cattle. Do not listen to greetings, Marin will let his men make another choice. However, this time the selection process is a bit cruel. These batches of bulls will be castrated.

After castration, these bulls will be kept for a month. At that time, pull out again to try arable land. If at this time it has become less irritable, Ken honestly obeyed the command, then stayed and assigned to work as cattle. And those who continue to resist, can only give a knife

After the screening process, the spikes were all slaughtered. The remaining bulls and cows, including eunuchs, were basically cattle working very honestly.

For example, the 50 farming cattle in the village of Klosters include 35 cows, 6 bulls and 9 eunuchs. These 35 cows are not only obliged to dry goods, but also responsible for breeding offspring and bearing calves.

Of course, once the cow is pregnant with a calf, it must not be allowed to work. But what if you encounter spring farming? No, Franz, the estate manager in the village, is busy.

"Jeanor, call some cows who are good at catching cows. Follow me to the cattle farm in Mormoreland to borrow three cows. The three cows in the manor are pregnant and cannot go down. The cattle farm temporarily borrowed three cows on top! "

The young man named Jeno immediately ran away and called for several middle-aged farmers who were good at catching cattle. Then Franz took a few people onto a carriage and drove from the country road to the town of Mormoreland.

It should be pointed out that since the start of the live cattle trade with the Crimean Khanate, Marin gradually replaced farm horses with farm cattle in areas such as East Friesland. Originally, the East Friesland region was paralleled by horse farming and cattle farming, but horse farming dominated. Because most of the farmland in the German area belongs to nobles and Junker landlords, these people have rich families and naturally advocate horse farming. Only a small number of poor small landowners will use cheap cattle farming. This is mainly because there was no cow nose ring and it was difficult to tame the cattle. Only a small part of the obedient cattle arable land could be used. Most cattle were useless. After Marin brought the technology of cattle nose ring, the bullfighting became much simpler, and cattle farming could naturally be promoted vigorously.

As for the previous workhorse, most of them were taken up by Marin. Horses with excellent physical conditions were arranged by Marin to the breeding center to continue to breed horses. The inferior horse is more sad and reminded, and Marin is also arranged to go to the breeding center, but it is to breed with the donkey to breed another kind of animal mule.

Of course, each manor usually keeps two to three horses for cart pulling. For example, in the village of Klosters, there are three carriages in the village. One of the uses is very novel. It is a "school bus" for children in the village. Its task is to send the children of the village to the only elementary school in the town of Mormoreland on school day. Give it away in the morning and pick it up at night. There is no way. There are few schools in Beihai. There is usually only one school in a town of tens of hundreds of square kilometers.

The other two vehicles are usually used to send villagers to the town to catch the market in Mormoreland every 10 days. They will open a village fair to let the people of the whole town go to purchase materials.

When there are no township markets, it is mainly the manorial arrangements. For example, now that there is a shortage of cattle in the village, Franz will take people to the town ’s cattle farm to second some cattle back.

This kind of farming cattle is also a new thing made by Marin, and it is mainly considering the problem that cows can not cultivate land after pregnancy. Anyway, it doesn't cost too much to set up a cattle farm in the town. After all, cows usually eat grass.

And from every village to town, there are rural roads. This kind of rural road is certainly not a rural cement road in later generations. After all, cement production is not high now. These rural roads are basically rural roads from the village to the town built by each township official to organize the villagers in each village and town to take advantage of the time of farming. Although there was no cement, there were many stones and pebbles scooped from the river. After being crushed by Niu Shishi, it is usually very smooth. Unless, in the rainy season, it will be damaged by the abundant rain and then deformed. However, during the agricultural slack season, the town will send someone to repair it, and press it again with the stone ditch, it will be no problem.

Franz took a few cow-handling styles, took advantage of the carriage, and soon came to the cattle farm in the town. After grading and showing the manor ’s identity, Franz finally borrowed three cows. Then, let a few cattle catch the cows and start to rush back along the country road.

When I returned to the village, it was just in time for noon, and the canteen in the village was open.

Then, entering the village of Franz and his party, he saw a queue of elders outside the canteen in the middle of the village

The village-run canteen is a major feature of Beihaiguo Manor, which is a bit like a collective farm in later generations, but it is different.

Although farmers in the village of Klosters went to the cafeteria to queue for food at noon, they were free to choose whether to stay in the cafeteria for dinner.

Moreover, the cafeteria is only open at noon every day, but not at night. However, when people line up at noon, they will bring home bread and salted fish at night.

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