As a qualified landowner, although Marin is not a Zhou Papi and the like, he also can't see the serfs being idle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoSo, Marin thought about it, and ordered his manor stewards to start organizing the serfs to harvest pasture.

In addition to growing a large amount of food, Marin also vigorously promoted alfalfa, a very good forage, in the territory. Moreover, farmers and herdsmen usually have to help manage alfalfa in addition to managing farmland.

After all, Marin didn't give them bread for free. You must know that in this era, in the poor estates, serfs could not afford to eat bread at all. Those poor serfs could only get some rye, add a lot of wild vegetables and grass roots, and cook bitter porridge of the dark cuisine of a country and drink it. The estates where bread could be eaten were treated very well by the serf owners. Moreover, even if you eat black bread, it is the kind of black baguette that is mixed with a lot of dirt, wild vegetables, wood chips, and even stones, and can be used as a brick.

The bread that Marin gave to the serfs was just a small amount of "Kohler bread" mixed with ryegrass chaff, which was very fluffy to eat. For those serfs, it is definitely the top treatment.

However, these breads are not given in vain, and when there is nothing to do, Marin will also levy serfs and do that. However, there are additional meals.

Of course, the serfs had no complaints. After all, they lived much better than serfs elsewhere. Not only do I usually have bread to eat, but also salted dried fish from time to time. As a result, the serfs of East Friesland, especially those on the Marin estate, were physically strong and energetic.

For example, in addition to planting a large number of alfalfa in the horse farm, Marin also asked the manor under his name to plant a large amount of alfalfa grass on the vacant land of the manor after finishing farm work.

Not only that, Marin also arranged for each estate to have a beekeeper. Because, alfalfa grass is a flowering plant, and during flowering, it needs to be pollinated. If you keep bees, you can not only use bees to pollinate alfalfa, increase alfalfa seed production (to facilitate the expansion of planting area), but also collect high-grade honey - alfalfa honey (first-class honey).

In addition, bees can also obtain beeswax, which is used to seal the air in various packages. For example, the canned food that Marlin intends to make requires a lot of cork and beeswax.

Autumn is not only the harvest season for rye, but also the time when alfalfa harvests seeds. Therefore, Marin asked the manor stewards to organize serfs to harvest the alfalfa seeds that were left behind, so as to obtain more seeds and expand the planting area of alfalfa.

Alfalfa with seeds left and alfalfa without seeds are completely different. Alfalfa is harvested every two or three months (except in winter). The alfalfa grass that grows in this way is all tender grass. The alfalfa grass that is left behind is not harvested once every two or three months, but pollinated in spring and harvested in autumn. Once the seeds are obtained, they are dried in the sun and waited until next year when they are sown in a new place to expand the distribution area of the alfalfa grass.

Therefore, this harvest not only harvests alfalfa seeds, but also harvests fresh alfalfa grass. The reason why the fresh alfalfa grass is harvested without seeds is to prepare fodder for the winter livestock.

In winter, there is sometimes heavy snow in northern Germany. Once the snow covers the ground, cattle and sheep will not pick up the snow in search of food. Therefore, in rainy and snowy weather, if there is no feed reserve, livestock is easy to starve to death.

Therefore, every winter, European countries, especially the northern half of Europe, will slaughter a large number of animals in the early winter and salt the meat to avoid starvation in winter.

And if you have enough alfalfa grass in stock, then the livestock will not be able to starve to death. Alfalfa grass is highly nutritious and makes it an excellent feed even if it is dried hay. It would be better to feed the animals in the winter.

Of course, even better than hay is silage. In his previous life, when reading those online articles, Marin saw the application of silage more than once.

However, the specific silage technology has not been studied by Marin in his previous life, but he has only seen it in online articles. Specifically, it seems that after harvesting the young grass, immediately chop it up, and then put in some additives. The main ones are feed enzymes, organic acids, lactic acid bacteria and the like. The purpose is to allow lactic acid bacteria to multiply and expand, affecting all pastures.

Marlin has neither feed enzymes, nor organic acids, nor lactic acid bacteria. However, he knew that there was one thing that must have lactic acid bacteria in it, and that was the natural yogurt produced by dairy farmers (there were no live lactic acid bacteria in the yogurt sold in supermarkets in the future).

When the time comes, when sealing the cellar, sprinkle some yogurt on top of the green alfalfa grass every 50 centimeters......

The reason why Marlin wants to make silage alfalfa grass is actually for those British semi-fine wool sheep who have been bred. You know, they're Marlin's treasures right now. In particular, this winter, it is the gestation period of those British semi-fine wool sheep ewes, and they can't eat badly. Therefore, Marlin did not hesitate to stock up on a large amount of alfalfa grass, and even planned to use yogurt to silage alfalfa grass to supplement the nutrition of pregnant ewes.

Although alfalfa hay is also very nutritious, it is still much worse than silage alfalfa grass. For ordinary sheep, it is enough to eat alfalfa grass hay. But pregnant ewes need more nutrients. So, Marlint ordered the construction of several sealed cellars for silage of fresh alfalfa grass. When there is no fresh forage in winter, they open the cellar and take it out for the pregnant ewes to eat.

Pregnant ewes, if they eat nutritious silage alfalfa grass, will definitely be able to give birth to strong baby sheep by next spring. When the time comes, Marin can let his subordinates select and breed excellent new sheep breeds.

Under the supervision of the stewards of the various estates, the serfs took up their sickles and went to harvest alfalfa grass. After harvesting, the alfalfa seeds are also responsible for separating the alfalfa seeds, drying them and storing them. Next spring, good for sowing.

The one responsible for harvesting the tender alfalfa grass is divided into two batches. The job of a group of people is very simple, they are only responsible for harvesting the alfalfa grass, and then drying and baling it.

The other group of people is responsible for making silage alfalfa grass from the harvested fresh alfalfa grass. 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 they began to cut the alfalfa grass into small sections. In the evening, the alfalfa grass is placed in the silage cellar, compacted, and sprinkled with a layer of natural yogurt rich in lactic acid bacteria every 50 centimeters. Then, press in the fresh cut alfalfa grass until the cellar is full. Then, the silage cellar was covered and the outlet was sealed with mud.

Next, in the winter of a month or two, the silage alfalfa grass will be opened and fed to the 10,000 pregnant British ewes......