Chapter 319: Silage alfalfa
As a qualified landlord, although Marin was not Zhou Paipi's genius, he did not expect serfs to relax. So Marin thought for a while, and ordered the manor stewards to start organizing the serfs to harvest forage.
In addition to planting a lot of food, Marin is also vigorously promoting a very good forage, such as alfalfa. Moreover, in addition to managing farmland, farmers and herdsmen also have to help manage alfalfa.
After all, Marin asked them to have bread, which was not given in vain. You know, in this era, the poor manor, the serfs could not afford bread at all. Those poor serfs can only get some rye, plus a lot of wild vegetable grass roots and other things, boil the bitter porridge of a country's dark dishes to drink. The manor that can eat bread is the serf owner who treats the serf very well. Moreover, even if you eat dark bread, it is the kind of dark bread mixed with a lot of soil, wild vegetables, wood chips and even stones, which can be used as a brick.
The bread that Marin gave the serfs was just a small amount of "Kohler bread" doped with ryegrass straw bran, and it tasted very soft. For those serfs, it definitely belongs to top treatment.
However, these breads are not given in vain. When it's okay, Marin will also levy serfs and do them there. However, there are meals.
Of course, the serfs had no complaints. After all, they live much better than serfs elsewhere. Not only do you usually have bread to eat, but sometimes you have dried salted fish. This also led to the serfdom in East Friesland, especially the serfs in the Marin Manor, being very strong and working hard.
For example, this alfalfa, in addition to a large number of horse farms, Marin also asked the name of the manor, after doing farm work, a lot of alfalfa grass is planted on the manor's open space.
Not only that, Marin also arranged for each manor to have a beekeeper. Because alfalfa is a flowering plant, pollination is required during flowering. If you keep bees, you can not only use bees to pollinate alfalfa to increase the yield of alfalfa seeds (easy to expand the planting area), but also collect advanced honey-alfalfa honey (first grade honey).
In addition, bees can also obtain beeswax, which is used in various packages to seal off air. For example, the canned food that Marin intends to make requires a large amount of cork and beeswax.
Autumn is not only the harvest season for rye, but also the time for alfalfa to harvest seeds. Therefore, Marin demanded that the estate managers organize the serfs to harvest the retained alfalfa to obtain more seeds and expand the alfalfa planting area.
The retained alfalfa is completely different from the unreserved alfalfa. Alfalfa, which is not planted, is harvested every two or three months (except in winter). The alfalfa grown in this way is all tender grass. The remaining alfalfa is not harvested every two or three months, but pollinated in spring and harvested in autumn. After obtaining the seeds, dry them and wait until next year to spread them to a new place to expand the distribution area of alfalfa.
Therefore, this harvest is not only for the harvest of alfalfa seeds, but also for the harvest of fresh alfalfa. The reason for harvesting the fresh alfalfa without seeds is to prepare feed for winter animals.
In winter, heavy snow sometimes falls in northern Germany. Once heavy snow covers the ground, cattle and sheep will not pick up the snow to find food. Therefore, in rainy and snowy days, if there is no feed reserve, the livestock will easily starve to death.
Therefore, every winter, European countries, especially the northern half of Europe, will slaughter a large number of animals early in the winter and salt the meat to avoid starvation in winter.
If enough alfalfa is stored, the animals will not easily starve to death. Alfalfa is rich in nutrients. Even if it is dried into hay, it is also an excellent feed. It ’s better to put it in the winter for the animals.
Of course, what is better than hay is silage. Marin's previous life saw the application of silage more than once when reading those nets.
However, the specific silage technology, Marin has not studied in his previous life, but only seen in the net. The specific method seems to be to cut up the green grass immediately after harvesting, and then add some additives. Mainly feed enzymes, organic acids, lactic acid bacteria and the like. Its purpose is to allow lactic acid bacteria to multiply and expand, affecting all pastures.
Marin has neither feed enzymes, nor organic acids, nor lactic acid bacteria. However, he knew that there must be lactic acid bacteria in one thing, that is-natural yoghurt produced by dairy farmers (the yoghurt that is sold in supermarkets that are not refrigerated in later generations has no live lactic acid bacteria).
At that time, when sealing the cellar, every 50 cm high, just sprinkle yogurt on the green alfalfa grass ...
The reason why Marin is engaged in silage alfalfa is actually for the British semi-fine wool sheep that have been bred. You know, now they are Marin's baby. In particular, this winter, it is the pregnancy period of the British half-fine sheep ewe, can not eat bad. Therefore, Marin does not hesitate to reserve a large amount of alfalfa grass, and even plans to use yogurt to silage alfalfa grass, so as to supplement the nutrition of ewes during pregnancy.
Although alfalfa hay is also very nutritious, it is still much worse than silage alfalfa. For ordinary sheep, it is enough to eat alfalfa hay. But ewes in pregnancy need more nutrition. Therefore, Malinte ordered a number of sealed cellars for silage and fresh alfalfa. When there is no fresh forage in winter, they open the cellar and take it out for the pregnant ewe.
Pregnant ewes, if they eat nutritious silage alfalfa, will surely give birth to healthy baby sheep by next spring. At that time, Marin will allow his men to optimise excellent breeding and cultivate excellent new sheep breeds.
Under the supervision of the managers of various estates ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The serfs picked up their scythes to harvest alfalfa. After harvesting and retaining alfalfa, after harvesting, it is also responsible for separating the alfalfa seeds, drying them and storing them. Next spring, it is good for planting.
Those responsible for harvesting the fresh alfalfa are divided into two batches. The work of a group of people is very simple, only responsible for harvesting alfalfa grass, and then dried and bundled.
Another group of people needed to be responsible for turning the harvested fresh alfalfa into silage alfalfa. After they cut the fresh alfalfa grass in the morning, they first dried the alfalfa grass for most of the day, and in the afternoon began to cut the alfalfa grass into small pieces of grass. In the evening, the alfalfa was put in the silage cellar, compacted, and sprinkled with a layer of natural yogurt rich in lactic acid bacteria every 50 cm. Then, press into the cut fresh alfalfa until the cellar is full. Then, the silo was covered and the outlet was sealed with mud.
Next, in the winter after a month or two, open the cellar and feed the silage grass to the 10,000 pregnant British ewe ...
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