Chapter 712 Agricultural Machinery

Going all the way east along Luoshui, wherever there is a river flowing into it, there must be more than one factory. There are vehicle yards, carpentry tool yards, food machinery yards, textile machinery yards, general tool yards, and even a factory specializing in manufacturing various products.

A specialized workshop for weighing tools, such as scales, scales, buckets, etc. The weighing tools made here have government certification marks and can be used as standard measuring tools in various places.

What shocked the officials was the last agricultural machinery and equipment factory.

Different from other factories, the agricultural machinery and tools factory was built on the south bank of Luoshui River, at the foot of Lingshan Mountain. All surrounding farmers were relocated, and the factory was distributed for nearly ten miles along Luoshui River. A reservoir was built at the mountain pass, leading to multiple canals.

After everyone entered the factory and visited the workshop, they suddenly understood where the products from the parts factory they had seen a few days ago were used. The agricultural machinery and tools here used a large number of products from the previous factory, and almost everything was used.

After getting out of the car, everyone went to the room where the products were displayed. Everyone was familiar with what these things were doing, and they gathered around them.

The first is the plow. In the past, officials generally believed that a plow was just one thing, pulled by oxen to plow the land. Only when I came here today did I know that there are so many types of plows. The most important thing is that the plow walls are different. Different soils are plowed.

The plows used are different. The factory here collected various plows from the Central Plains and the South, and finally produced several models, which are suitable for paddy fields, dry land, sandy land, and even ones specially used for clearing wasteland.

In addition to the different mold walls, there are also differences in structure.

One is a single plow, pulled by one or two oxen, which is the most common. There are also double plows, pulled by two or three oxen.

Double plows are not two single plows added together, but must be coordinated. Because the front plow breaks the soil, the plow behind can borrow power, saving a lot of effort. If necessary, it can even be made into a triple plow. The more plows there are, the more effort there is.

It is relatively less laborious to use.

Generally speaking, there are two types of plows commonly used in later generations. One is called the Chinese type, which is the traditional Chinese plow. After plowing, the plow body moves. In other words, the plowed soil falls into the plowed ditch and

No furrows will be formed. There is also a European plow. The plowed soil is rolled by the plow body. When the soil is turned to one side, furrows will be formed.

If it is a single plow, it should be a Chinese plow. If it is a multiple plow, it would be better to use a European type. In later generations, tractors were mostly used for farming, and when multiple plows were used, most of them were European plows. In this factory, the single plow is a Chinese plow.

The double plow is the European plow.

Everyone gathered around the plow placed outside and couldn't help but marvel at these subtle differences. They had seen so many plows, but they didn't expect these differences.

On one side of the plow is a rake. This tool is relatively simple and can be divided into paddy fields and dry land. However, there is one more kind of rake than the common rake. It is an iron rolling cage. The iron cage will roll when the cattle pull it forward.

For sandy soil, this kind of rake is much easier to use.

Behind the rake is the columbine. Different from the common columbine, the columbine here has wheels. It can not only drill but also grain sow. Generally, when planting wheat, you don’t need a columbine and you can plow a ditch first.

, and then scatter the wheat in the ditch, which is called drill sowing. The traditional columbine is designed for this kind of operation. When planting soybeans, you need to sow the seeds one by one, so the traditional columbine is not suitable.

In the columbine here, the front wheel will rotate, driving a shaft in the box containing the seeds through a chain, and the seeds will be sown through the rotation of the shaft. Since the seeds are sown one or a few at a time, they are sown at intervals.

distance, so it is called grain seeding.

A few Jinshi were turning the front wheel there, looking at it being driven by a chain. They felt it was very novel. This was the first time I had seen this structure. Now I know that the chain produced by the chain factory in front was originally used in

here.

It is a great invention to install wheels on agricultural machinery and use this wheel to drive the movement of the machine behind it. With this invention, the types of agricultural machinery have suddenly become richer. The wheels in the front are called driving wheels.

Many farm tools here only work because of their driving wheels.

After planting, there is field management, and the most important thing is weeding. The tools for weeding here are somewhat similar to the agricultural tools used for plowing in the front. They are many kinds of shovels. Different shovels are suitable for different planting methods and are pulled by cattle, which is called cultivating.

weeding.

Behind are various harvesting machines.

The first thing you see is a horse-drawn harvester. This kind of harvester is equipped with a reciprocating blade. When the horse is pulled forward, the blade moves back and forth, cutting off the crops and stacking them aside. Its power is the driving wheel.

Before the steam engine and internal combustion engine were invented, horse-drawn harvesters began to be used in developed areas. When the power matured, people invented the combine harvester, and the harvesting part is still in this form. However, compared to the power provided by tractors, horse-drawn harvesting

The effect of the machine is not good. However, there are few people on the land at this time. With this machine, the work intensity during crop harvesting has been greatly reduced.

As soon as everyone looked at the agricultural machinery in front, they knew what the working principle was. This horse-drawn harvester was different. It was too complicated. Everyone looked at it as if they were seeing a divine object. Several people gathered around it and looked left and right.

Can't figure out how this works.

Li Huidao: "How many acres of wheat can this machine cut in one day?"

Han Yundao, who explained it, said: "Generally speaking, you can harvest twenty to thirty acres of land in one day. Whether the horse is strong or not, and whether the land is harvested well or not will make a difference."

"My God, twenty acres a day!" Li Hui couldn't help shouting after hearing this. He turned to others and said: "No matter how capable a person is, he can only mow two acres a day. Ordinary people can only mow an acre a day."

Wheat is great. This machine can support more than twenty people!"

Everyone gathered around the machine and talked about it. How precious is the time to cut wheat? If it is cut quickly and the next crop is not delayed, there will be two crops a year.

Zheng Gangzhong asked Han Yundao: "This machine is so easy to use, will it be sold well?"

Han Yundao said: "Now it is only sold in the villages under the Yingtian Division. The sales are very good. You have to order in advance. In other places, several companies have to buy together, otherwise it will be a pity for one family. And the price is expensive, so ordinary farmers buy it.

I'm sorry."

Zheng Gangzhong said: "Expensive? How expensive?"

Han Yundao said: "Nowadays, a machine costs 80 guan, which is too expensive for farmers. If a family produces 10 guan and can form a community of eight households, it will be about the same."

Zheng Gangzhong nodded. How many farmers could afford eighty guan? But it would be much easier if they could afford 10 guan.

After looking at the horse-drawn harvester and then looking at the machines at the back, everyone was a little uninterested.

The machines at the back are for post-harvest processing. For example, a threshing machine is driven by one person, and another person feeds and threshes the grain. If it is rice, the wheat is threshed, and the rice is harvested. For example, a winnowing machine is used for threshing.

After that, remove the debris, such as the rice huller and rice mill, so there is no need to pound the rice anymore.

In addition, there are also forage balers, etc., which are used to collect forage.

After seeing these machines, everyone felt that their horizons were opened, and they realized that there is so much knowledge in farming. If these machines were widely used among the people, one person would not only be able to farm thirty acres, right? What would the world be like at that time?

?

Zheng Gang stood up for a while and felt that he did not dare to think about it. If the things here were implemented, the whole world would be different.
Chapter completed!