Chapter 1612: Twelve horses = twelve horsepower?
30 acres of arable land per day! Marin was thrilled to think about it. Why? Because he sits in the colonies of the American continent, the land he lacks most is land. The most lacking is population and efficiency.
Today, there is now a plow that can cultivate 30 mu of land a day. Moreover, only one or two people are required to manipulate it (reportedly it is a horse rider, and the other is responsible for adjusting the depth of the plow head, which is an auxiliary, and women can also be competent). Then, according to one month of spring cultivation, wouldn't a family be able to cultivate 900 acres of land?
Marin was so happy that if the family could grow 900 acres, wouldn't the 100,000 households grow 90 million acres? Oh my god, how much food is this ...
Marin has been beautiful all the way, he is now worried-what to do with too much food in the future? Feed the chicken ...
But when he arrived at the scene with several ministers and Caesar and saw the legendary "farming miracle", he almost crooked his nose ...
Nima! What "farming miracle"? The feeling is to use a lot of horses to carry a plow cart!
Marin held back his anger and looked closely, and found that this so-called "farming miracle" was actually using 12 horses to pull a plow cart made of iron racks together.
This plow wagon made of steel and wood has three plowing plows underneath. The designer took a lot of effort to connect the three plow reviews with a steel bar horizontally.
When not arranging the land or turning, the person who assisted the plow car carried the horizontal steel bar, pulled the three plow reviews together, and lifted the coulter to the plow. There are three gears in the plow review, the last gear is the gear of the coulter plow, which is used when the plow truck rushes or turns.
Pushing the first gear forward is a shallow ploughing gear with a coulter down, but not much depth. This stall is mainly for the loosening of pasture grassland. The requirements for planting forage grass are not high, as long as the soil is pine. And shallow ploughing is faster.
As for the first gear, it is naturally deep plowing, which is the gear used for normal arable land. The previously mentioned 30 acres of arable land, the nature used is also this stall.
In addition, when the inventor Plander used a plow truck to demonstrate the cultivated land, Marin found that these three plowing plows are not side by side, but have front and back.
As for why this is so, Marin understood at a glance-because the respective plow walls of the three Quyuan plows will pull the soil apart on both sides of the plow wall after crushing the soil. Subsequently, discarded in the land. If the three ploughs are side by side, when the soil is thrown to the two sides after the plow wall is broken, the soil will easily interfere with the soil thrown by the plow on the side, affecting the advance of the plow ...
Therefore, the designer cleverly designed the three curved plows to be inclined, and the three plows were not on a horizontal plane. In this way, when throwing soil on both sides, it will not interfere with each other.
Marin has to admit that this designer is still very smart and the craftsman level is relatively high. However, after seeing the 12 horses pulling the cart in front, Marin suddenly became hot ...
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Nima! That's 12 horses! Normal people can afford so many horses? Even if your plow cart is cleverly designed, what is the point? Even the feed of 12 horses can make ordinary farmers bankrupt!
What is the point of raising 12 horses in a family? When farming, of course, 12 horses can be put into battle to accelerate the speed of arable land. But what about after farming? 12 horses, the food consumed every day, equivalent to 60 people!
Even if a cart is used to pull goods, a farmer can bring one or two horses at most to pull out the goods. After all, no matter how many horses you have, there must be enough horsemen to catch the horses!
In that way, when the farm is idle, there will be 10 or 11 horses idle when 12 horses are pulled. It is not cost-effective to consume food in vain!
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However, Marin must also admit that looking at the 12 horses plowing the land together, the speed is really fast, no less than the walking tractors of later generations.
In the previous life, Father Marin also bought a second-hand walking tractor for arable land at home. However, the second-hand Changchai walking tractor can only cultivate 15 mu of land every day. However, in later generations, Huaxia had more land and fewer people, each family had a few acres of land, and 15 acres of arable land per day was absolutely enough.
In terms of arable land speed, this plow truck can cultivate 30 acres of land per day, which is twice that of a walking tractor.
However, Marin remembers that the walking tractor in the later generations had only one plow when cultivating the land, called Shan Hua Plow. Only large and medium tractors will use the multi-plow plow. Because, people's large and medium tractors have enough horsepower ...
Speaking of horsepower, Marin looked strange at the plow. Because, seeing 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? Twelve horses pulling the plow together, isn't it 12 horsepower?
And most coincidentally, in the later generations, the walking tractor at Marin's family seems to be a small 12-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engine ...
However, that walking tractor can only cultivate 15 acres a day. Mainly, it uses a single plow. The 12 horse-drawn plows are also 12 horsepower, but they use three plows.
It stands to reason that this should cultivate 45 mu of land every day. After all, what about three plows? But the actual situation is not so calculated, mainly because-the tractor can keep farming as long as there is oil. But this is the same 12-horsepower plow cart system, 12 horses are tired but it is necessary to rest for a while.
Therefore, although there are two more ploughs, but because the horse needs to rest, the amount of cultivated land per day is only 30 mu. But this data is already very scary in this era. The only drawback is that the horses eat more. After the farming, too many horses eat rice ...
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At noon, at the dinner table, Marin raised the sharp question of the cost of raising horses, and asked the inventor of the plow, Prandel. After all, even if the horse is not eating 5 servings of food every day like the war horse, there are still two or three people eating food every day. It is very cost-effective for a farmer to raise so many horses.
Hearing Marin's blame, Pland froze for a long time. But in the end, Plander's mind flashed, and he thought of the wording to respond:
"Duke, it's definitely not cost-effective to use ordinary European horses. However, if you use the Crimean horses that usually graze, it's no problem! Usually, Crimean horses (Eastern Mongolian horses) only eat grass, only in You only need to eat feed when you work! "
Marin first heard it, but soon frowned:
"The Eastern European Mongolian horses in Crimea are not so strong?" The Eastern European Mongolian horses in Crimea are medium-sized horses, which are not as powerful as the heavy-duty horses commonly used in Western Europe.
Prad said indifferently:
"Then add three more horse-drawn plows!"
Marin shook his head and said:
"It's still not appropriate. The horses on the grasslands of Eastern Europe do indeed eat grass. But that size is really not suitable for working. Don't do a spring farming ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ just scrap the horse."
Plante thought about it and said:
"Dagong, otherwise, we use local horses and Crimean grazing horses to breed, and breed new horses that are stronger but can eat grass? Even if the new horses are not as powerful as the local horses , But as long as you can work. If the 12 Crimean horses are not worth the 12 local horses, then 15 horses will be used, is it okay? "
Marin thought about it, really. If a local horse stallion and a mare of Eastern European Mongolian horses in Crimea are used for breeding, it may be possible to obtain a horse breed that can both graze and live, as well as have some strength and endurance to cultivate the land. By then, the cost of feeding will not be a problem. This is because the breeds of Mongolian horses in Eastern Europe can not eat food. There are no economic pressures to raise a few more horses.
Moreover, Marin remembers that later generations of Donhoma (that is, a kind of Eastern European Mongolian horse), there are two types of Eastern and Western.
Among them, the Eastern type is the current Crimean Eastern European Mongolian horse, which is a small body and belongs to a medium-sized horse suitable for riding by light cavalry. The western type is probably a type that mixes the European heavy horse blood lineage, which is larger in size and belongs to both the ride and pull type. This Western-style ride-and-pull Dunham horse was used by the Cossacks to cultivate land. They can also be used as horses for transfers when marching to war.
In addition, the Western-style Hippopotamus, which can be used both as a ride and a pull, is equally hard-working and can dominate eating grass. You only need to eat food when you are working.
Therefore, Marin can be bred according to the western type of the Don Hippo, and can breed the Eastern European Mongolian horse that can be used for both riding and pulling and can eat grass. At that time, you can not only avoid the high cost of raising horses, but also use this efficient plow truck to reclaim a lot of cultivated land and save a lot of labor ...
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