Chapter 70: What? Colony lack of manure?

On the Atlantic Ocean, a Kirk sailing boat was breaking through the waves. This is a ship returning from Grenada. Since Marin had collected all the warships and had to deal with the colony, he could only use the Kirk sailboat. Fortunately, there were no pirates in the Americas in this era. Because the American gold and silver have not yet been developed.

The rice and **** are on board. A total of 5 bags of rice and a bag of **** are loaded. Each bag weighs 100 pounds. This autumn, Grenada also has a bumper harvest ... No, Grenada has no seasons, and it can be harvested all seasons. It's just that there was a good harvest in autumn.

Although sugar cane was also harvested, all sugar cane was used to breed new sugar cane seedlings. Therefore, there was no sugar cane coming back this time, let alone sugar. However, Old George expanded the sugarcane planting area from the initial two acres to 200 acres by raising seedlings. It is conceivable that next year will definitely be a good harvest year.

The only problem is that-there are few people in the colony and there is not enough excrement ...

Yes, there is not enough stool. Fewer excrement is less, and the raw material for making manure is less. By that time, there will be insufficient fertilizer. So, old George scratched his head a little. In order to get enough feces, old George also actively and enthusiastically helped to build a lot of toilets in the big yard in which the Bukas lived. Every few days, people will be sent to the Bukasian compound to collect manure and transported to the fertilizer plant.

But this is not enough, because the cultivated area has expanded and the population has not increased much. Therefore, the old George let the ship that transported the cattle past to return to Europe, and asked Marin to give advice. Because, old George believes that as Marin, who has been directed by Daxian, there must be a way ...

Captain Aben led the Kirk sailing ship to Emden, and immediately landed, taking 5 bags of rice and a bag of ginger, and went to Aurich.

Seeing Aben coming, Marin was very happy and quickly pulled him to ask about Grenada.

"Sir, the situation on Grenada is currently very good. The arable land has expanded a lot, and the wood has accumulated into mountains, which can't be used. Moreover, in this year, Governor George also led the soldiers under his command and repelled the Caribbean five times The attack also captured 100 slaves. But Governor George lacked shackles and asked me to come back and send 500 more shackles. "

In the case of a desperate population, the old George also had a good idea and thought of a way to capture the captives. The caribbean warriors who had eaten people were also captured by old George by 100 captives. It's just that they lack shackles that limit them. At present, the old George did not let them work, so he kept them up and raised them. What are you doing? Collecting feces ... Because this group of Caribbean prisoners of war is fierce, old George dared not let them go out to work for the time being, and he would not wait until he was shackled before driving them. After all, they are all cannibalistic ...

"Is there anything missing there?" Marin asked with concern.

"Master George said something inexplicable to me ..." Aben touched his bald head and said he couldn't understand it.

"He said ... The most scarce thing on Grenada is dung ..." Aben was a fisherman. He didn't know the effect of dung on agriculture, and Malin deliberately blocked the news. Therefore, he didn't understand and was very puzzled.

"What? Feces?" Marin began to wonder, but quickly responded.

He understood that there must be a lot of cultivated land on the island, but the amount of manure is limited, because the number of immigrants is limited, and everyone pulls it every day, so fertilization is not enough. Unlike the local area, Marin brought in a lot of immigrants and was able to get enough feces. Even those tens of thousands of Polish cows produce a lot of cow dung every day ...

"Yes, cows ... and horses and sheep ... no, there are pigs ... are good hands for dung ..."

Malin thought of countermeasures in an instant ...

The feces produced by people are not enough, right? Let's develop animal husbandry at the same time! Keep more animals and let the animals pull together. Isn't there enough manure?

Marin began to think of raising cattle, but the cycle of raising cattle is too long, and the growth of the herd is too slow. The fewer cows, the less manure is produced. Finally, Marin thought about raising pigs ...

On the island of Grenada, the seasons are like summer, and there is no shortage of green plants. Therefore, there are pigs that can be fed throughout the year, which is better than in temperate regions. Of course, this is the food condition. The only problem is that it is too hot to prevent the pigs from dying. Fortunately, there are no poisonous insects in Grenada, and they will not bite the dead pig ...

Moreover, pigs grow fast and reproduce quickly. Eat more every day, and more natural pig manure. At that time, pig manure is also a good fertilizer ...

Marin remembers that when he was a child, the farmers in the village hadn't set off a rush to work. At that time, the villagers were waiting for several acres of their home at home all day. At that time, almost every family raised pigs. They often build a large pool with a rainproof roof in one or several houses to save pig manure and human dung scooped from the latrine. Before planting crops, the truck will be used to dig out the mixed fermented manure from the pond and down into the field as a base fertilizer before starting to cultivate the land. And because they eat more, the feces produced by the two pigs are definitely not less than those produced by a family of five.

Therefore, raising more pigs can definitely solve the problem of insufficient stool. But the premise is that food must be produced in high yields. Otherwise, what will be beaten into bran to feed pigs? Ancient China was no problem, but ancient Europe was not. In ancient times, grain production in Europe was too low, and wheat bran was eaten by people, but it was not taken out as pig feed. Of course, there is no problem in Grenada, where there is green grass all year round, and pigs can eat hog grass.

After making up his mind, Marin took Aben and commanded:

"Well, Aben, after you rest for a while, run Grenada again and send 300 pigs in the past. Of course, it's a little piglet ..." If you send 300 big fat pigs, the daily feed consumption is amazing. Not necessarily enough on board. But sending 300 pigs is different. The piglets are small in size and eat little. After a few months of sailing, they will grow up, but they will eat much less than if they just took the pigs.

These piglets are not castrated, but used to breed. Therefore, more sows and fewer boars. When it reaches the ground, it will be used for large-scale breeding, which can not only produce pig manure, but also provide pork.

For this reason, Marin wrote a letter on the spot ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ In the letter, Marin explained the old George to the west, and he must build a separate pigsty, not to let these pigs fight each other together and consume physical strength. Moreover, the pigsty should be protected against high temperature, and should be built under the shade of trees as much as possible to prevent the pigs from being killed by heat.

It's just that Marin remembered the Taihu pigs raised in his previous life ...

European native pigs of this period were small in size and had fewer calves per litter, only five or six. Unlike Taihu pigs, there are more than a dozen born in one child, and the population expands extremely quickly. Moreover, the size of Taihu pigs is also larger than that of the European native pigs of this era, and naturally produces more meat ...

But now there are no Taihu pigs in Malin's hands. Even the Taihu pig breeds have not been formed in Daming. But the source of its variety must be in the area around Taihu Lake, otherwise it will not be called this name. However, if you want to obtain such a variety, you must open the Daming trade route first ...

As for raising sheep in Grenada, Marin never thought about it. Because sheep are covered with thick wool. Fortunately in temperate regions, running to the tropical island of Grenada, it is easy to heat stroke ... Imagine a person wearing a down jacket, although warm and comfortable in Siberia, but wearing a down jacket to the equator, absolutely fainted ...

Sheep are covered with thick wool, just like a person wearing a down jacket. Running to the hot and wet island of Grenada, it was difficult to adapt. Therefore, tropical humid islands like Grenada are better for raising pigs.

However, Marin remembered that since the island of Grenada will have a shortage of manure, the same will happen to the two islands of North America and Cape Breton Island as colonies. It's just that they haven't reported it there yet. But the islands of Amerigo and Cape Breton are both temperate islands, but they are suitable for large-scale sheep and cattle breeding, as well as horse breeding. There are more options than Grenada ...