Chapter 42 Plant Magic
“Is this good?”
“Why is it not good?”
“This grinder is used to grind bones. Don’t wash the bones after grinding them. Isn’t it dirty just to grind flour?”
“It’s okay, after all, the gentlemen in the town eat the flour.”
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Being a mill steward is a very honorable position in the territory, with high salary and high status. Farmers have to call him "Sir" when they see him.
So after the mill steward of Lizi Village was dismissed by the young master on the spot and appointed as the material collector of the compost site, his wife chased him all over the village holding a pitchfork.
In the mill, Frederick scooped up a spoonful of bone meal with a wooden spoon and studied it for a while, then walked outside to the open-air stove.
There are three stoves here, each with a large pot that can put Frederick in to stew.
The villagers are putting the collected broken bones and some clam shells and screw shells into the pot on the left, and then adding a large amount of plant ash and water to prepare the bones.
The bones in the middle pot have been boiling for a while. Someone removed the fat and added water to prevent it from drying out.
The flue of the stove was transformed into a drying bed like a fire pit. The bones with the grease removed were placed there to dry. After drying, they were collected and sent to the mill to be ground into powder.
Because the finer the bone meal, the better the fertility will be exerted. The bone meal that has been ground for the first time is sifted through a hydraulic sieve and then the coarse bone powder has to be ground for a second time.
Frederick looked at it for a while and thought that it was not convenient to use a stone mill to grind bone meal. He would order the ball mill later. The wooden barrel was lined with iron sheets to increase the life. Instead of steel balls, large pebbles would be fine. .
He turned around and asked the village chief beside him: "Are there enough bones?"
The village chief hunched over and replied: "It is enough now, but it will be difficult to say in the future. We are going to buy it in other territories."
Frederick said softly "Hmm".
Currently, farmers attach great importance to nitrogen fertilizers such as compost and green manure. They also have a certain understanding of plant ash potassium fertilizer but do not pay enough attention to it. As for phosphate fertilizer, it is just bones mixed in the compost.
Now Professor Matthias from the University of Weissenburg began to pay attention to compound fertilizers after being inspired by Frederick, and the importance of phosphate fertilizers increased.
The problem is that the current per capita meat consumption is too low, and there are simply not that many bones to make bone meal.
Also facing the same problem is blood meal.
The collected livestock blood is being boiled in the pot on the right side of the stove. After it is boiled, add quicklime at the ratio of 100kg blood plus 20kg quicklime, stir quickly at the same time, and take it out when it is dark brown. Sun-dried or oven-dried, and finally ground into powder.
Before planting wheat, moisten the wheat seeds first and then dress the seeds with 4% of the weight of blood meal, which can increase the yield by 10% or even 20%.
The bones can be collected in other places for garbage collection, but the raw materials for blood meal are troublesome.
Today there is news that Baron Wesson is purchasing a large amount of blood. Maybe tomorrow someone like Yu Jie Yong will come to fight the BOSS, so he will have to prepare a lot of acid slimes.
Not to mention the fact that blood sausage is a common food eaten by villagers and blood meal is difficult to store for a long time.
To solve the problem of raw materials, we need to vigorously develop the breeding industry. There is no need to think about chemical fertilizers for now. At most, we can get some potassium nitrate.
Urea gypsum is also a no-brainer. This kind of fertilizer is acidic, and the land here is mainly acidic soil. Add it to dipping dumplings.
Frederick came to the field and prepared for autumn sowing. The farmer's family, old and young, were mixing compost, bone meal, plant ash and golden garbage, and then evenly spread it into the field.
Jinkela was the first product of Frederick's hometown that he copied when he came to this world. It was actually zeolite. It is true that the "no loss or evaporation" of Jin Keli is true. Because of its special structure, zeolite can absorb nutrients in the soil like a sponge and release them when these things are lacking in the external soil, thus reducing the loss of fertilizer nutrients.
These fields have just been planted with peas and other beans. After harvesting the beans, the bean vines were dug into the ground and watered enough to allow them to rot. Now they are plowed deeply after applying base fertilizer. Sowing can be done next.
Frederick watched for a while and found Professor Mathias, the royal planter, and several of his students on the field beside the field.
Compared to the fertilization just now, this is an epoch-making existence.
Small ditches were dug out on the rammed ground of the grain drying field, and a group of students carried buckets and poured a dark red mud-like material into the ditches.
Frederick walked up to Matthias and asked curiously: "What kind of magic circle is this?"
Matthias replied: "The magic that stimulates the seeds can Let the plants bear more fruits."
Frederick's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked: "Is it useful for all plants?"
"That's natural." Si's face showed a proud expression, "Many of the plants I control use fruits as weapons, and I am the best at this magic."
Frederick's eyes gleamed, thinking he had found a treasure.
At this time, a student said: "Teacher is working hard on the fruit department because the winding department is so bad."
Matthias's eyes widened, and he stretched out his right hand. Holding a black plant seed from nowhere on his finger, he said in a cold voice: "Would you like to try my poor entanglement magic?"
The student shrank his neck and ran away immediately.
Matthias saw Frederick looking at the seeds in his hand intently, smiled slightly, loosened his hand, and the seeds fell to the ground.
There was a dark green light connecting the seed to the finger. As soon as the seed touched the ground, it immediately grew rapidly, and a vine grew in the blink of an eye.
These vines glowed green, twisting and growing like tentacles. After a few breaths, they formed a pavilion around the two of them, as well as two chairs and a table made of curled rattan. .
Frederick was frightened by the scene in front of him. His mouth grew big. After the green light faded, he subconsciously stretched out his hand to poke the vines, and then looked up at the green leaves.
“Take a rest.” Matthias sat down triumphantly, “We may strengthen the first batch of wheat seeds in the afternoon.”
Frederick asked immediately after sitting down : "Is this... a real plant?"
"Yes." Matthias replied, "Still alive, but not for long."
"Why?" Frederick asked in surprise.
“It’s very simple.” Matthias shrugged. “Its root system absorbs and consumes all the water and nutrients in the surrounding soil, and it will starve to death in a short time.”
< br>Frederick immediately jumped out of the pavilion and found that the surrounding land was indeed much drier than other places.
He immediately asked the village chief to ask someone to carry water over and drench the land.
The village chief and the villagers had been frightened for a long time, and it was only after Frederick went over and kicked each of them that they reacted.
Matthias smiled and said to Frederick who returned to the pavilion: "If it is pruned, watered and fertilized from time to time, this pavilion can live for a long time."
Frederick did not After answering, he held his chin and started thinking.
(End of this chapter)