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The most direct and effective way to save grain in dry fields is to hoe the ground: "There is water under the tip of the hoe!" This is an old saying that has been handed down since farming in northern Shaanxi.The suffering people can't explain the scientific truth in it, but the hoeed land, in addition to shoveling away the weeds that compete for glory and water, is indeed stronger and more durable than the unhoeed seedlings.The millet that has been hoeed twice, even if it does not rain, no matter how small it grows, it will still pull out an ear and grow a few grains of millet. If it has not been hoed, it will be good if it can grow into hay.

Last year was considered a small bumper harvest. Lao Jia and Lao Shen settled a bill, handed in the public grain, sold the "surplus grain", and distributed some to the educated youth. In fact, it went to the suffering people, except for some families with a lot of labor and a solid foundation. However, most people are still not enough to chew the grain all year round, and some people are still very difficult.Last year's output must be maintained at a minimum this year, otherwise it will be even more difficult in the coming year.

How to increase production is a big problem for Lao Jia.Lao Jia has always had lingering fears about the difficulty of coming, and dare not open up large areas of wasteland.The new wasteland opened by the educated youths before their arrival was all planted with wheat.These newly opened wastelands were registered with the commune and greeted, and the commune acquiesced according to the new population.What to do this year, open up wasteland again?He couldn't open his mouth, and he didn't have the guts. The four-year imprisonment scared him.This year, Lao Jia was forced to think of a crooked trick, so that all the three or four crops of mature land were not abandoned, and all of them were planted with millet.Millet is resistant to barrenness, and even the poorest land can grow ears. It is better to have a little harvest than to be hungry.Therefore, there are a lot of millet fields planted this year.

"Cows lie down in the corn field, but the planting is too thick; chickens lie in the millet field, but the planting is thin." To hoe corn, use a hoe to hug it twice, which means that the corn field can be planted with a hoe .Millet is not good. All the millet is sown on the slopes in northern Shaanxi. Carry a bag with grain seeds on your back, walk along the slope, grab a handful of millet, shake your hand, and scatter the millet on the slope under your feet.No matter how good the sowing hands are, it is impossible to scatter evenly. The row spacing and plant spacing are the same size, so the seedlings will be uneven.The sloping land is barren, requiring the seedlings to grow independently, not densely planted together like in Sichuan, but not too thin. The so-called lying down chickens, in fact, can't get down with a hoe, so they can only be picked with the tip of the hoe. , arms, wrists, and back all have to work hard.Therefore, among the crops, millet is the most difficult to hoe and the most labor-intensive. "If you don't hoe the valley, it's not even as good as the grass." There are three requirements for hoeing millet. One is to get out of the seedlings that are sown too densely together during sowing (if they are sown together, there is not enough water and fertilizer, and they will all become grass and will not head. ); the second is to hoe the grass around the grain seedlings; the third is to hoe the soil around the pine seedlings (to maintain soil moisture).These three requirements are too delicate, and it is difficult for educated youths to embroider. The grain seedlings are very similar to many grass seedlings, especially weeds. The educated youths can't distinguish them even when they bend down on the ground. Highly myopic people like scholars and swallows The student boy even lay down on the ground, picking up the hoe point by bit, picking away the redundant grain seedlings and grass seedlings among the many green seedlings, leaving a weak and tiny grain seedling.It is laborious, laborious and time consuming.

As soon as the spring sowing is over, the intense hoeing work immediately begins.

Spring has passed, and the dormant creatures are struggling to germinate, looking at the world in amazement, severe drought and turmoil.

The author has something to say:

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