Chapter 1244: The Farm of Justice (Twenty-Six)

In the early morning of Kansas, when the sun shines through the slightly humid air, the air is filled with hazy light and shadows. 蟍

When the golden light falls on the land, a distant sound comes from the wind. When the last bit of coolness in the wind fades away, the footsteps of spring bring a gentle whisper, telling the hardworking people on this vast land that spring plowing is about to begin.

The young people living in the cottage of Kent Farm got up early. As soon as the sun rose from the horizon, everyone was already packing up in a hurry.

Before dawn, the rumbling sound of the tractor followed the spring thunder of the previous night. The noisy laughter of the farm helpers came from the main house not far away. Clark pushed open the wooden door and smelled the fragrance of Martha's thick soup in the moist air.

Clark just raised his foot to go out, but suddenly retracted his leg and turned to the people behind him and said, "Don't come out yet. The pebbles outside are a little loose. Bruce, help me get a shovel. I want to press them tightly."

With a "whoosh", a shovel flew over. Clark instinctively reached out to catch it, but when he looked up, he saw Diana's face. He raised his eyebrows in surprise. The force of the shovel just now was not light.

Diana smiled widely and said, "I know you are proud of your strength, boy, but I am not bad either."

Clark walked out with a shovel while laughing, and said, "I saw that you wanted to fight with me. You Amazon women are like this. You always want to prove your strength."

"There's nothing wrong with this. At least you will have a good helper when you farm today." Diana shrugged and also took out a shovel to help Clark flatten the pebbles at the door.

Bruce, who had just woken up, stood at the door in a daze. He stretched his head and looked outside the door, then said, "It seems that there are more people on the farm. What are they doing here?"

"Of course, they are here to help with farm work." Clark said in a brisk tone.

But Bruce and Diana stared at him at the same time, with expressions of disapproval on their faces. Clark sighed helplessly and said, "What are you thinking? I am not an evil landlord who exploits farmers!"

"Kent Farm has long been a large-scale mechanized farming. No one will go to the farm to plow the land personally, but because of large-scale formalization, we need a lot of professionals to help the farm complete spring plowing."

"First of all, we need an agricultural consultant who is responsible for providing knowledge and professional technical assistance. He is not an expert himself, but he knows where to find the most reliable experts."

"These experts will collect soil from Kent Farm and take it back to the laboratory Test and analyze our soil conditions to determine the most suitable plants, planting methods and planting time. "蟍

"We also need a purchasing agent who is responsible for all business matters. After getting professional reports from experts, he will help us analyze what kind of seeds are the most economical and affordable to buy, and which farm has planted which excellent varieties and obtained good returns. "

"Then we need to contact seed dealers and go to the mechanical agricultural tool market or the second-hand trading market to purchase the agricultural tools that need to be purchased this year. "

"At the same time, we also have a government consultant who mainly helps us solve some policy problems, such as this year's promotion of farmers What policy benefits have been introduced, whether there are any changes in the relevant agricultural regulations, and whether there are any new standards for the harvesting and secondary processing of agricultural products. "

"Finally, my father is personally responsible for the sales channels of agricultural products and promotes our family's high-quality products to various suppliers."

"Of course, this is not all. There are also some more sophisticated technical consultants and skilled workers. For example, in agriculture, there are experts in pesticide spraying, volunteers for nature conservation forests, and in animal husbandry, there are veterinarians to do physical examinations on animals and breeders responsible for breeding. "

Clark said a lot of things, he spread his hands and said: "In modern agriculture, almost all The manual labor has been replaced by machines, but in contrast, the knowledge and technology part requires a lot of talent. "

"The sound of the tractor you heard this morning was from the sowing hands we hired. You can't expect a few of us to plow such a large piece of land, right? Even if we drive the tractor 24 hours a day, it won't work." 蟍

"The timing of spring plowing is very precious. We have to start planning after the rain, wait for the soil to be just moist, and then start sowing immediately, seize the most precious few days, and sow all the seeds."

"So, today we are going to cooperate with these sowing hands?" Bruce asked.

Clark shook his head and said, "No, the situation this year is a bit special. We can have an independent plot of land. I can take you to farm together, and then we can harvest together in the harvest season."

Clark threw the shovel to Diana, who put the shovel back into the house. Then he waved to the two of them and said, "Let's go, let's go and see the land."

After that, Clark turned around and walked away, sighing as he walked, and then said, "It's a pity that Louise is busy with work. He has already taken his annual leave and can only go back to work."

Diana smiled teasingly and said, "You can just ask me directly, was she a little reluctant when she left? I can tell you, yes, and she was mainly reluctant to leave you."

Standing on the side of the road, Clark coughed twice, blocked his mouth with his fist, and stammered, "It has nothing to do with me..."

After a while, Diana and Bruce changed into waterproof boots, Clark held some small flags, an axe and a roll of hemp rope in his hand, and the three of them began to move deeper into the Kent Farm.

The whole farm does not look very big from the sky, because there are such large farms all around, but if you really walk, it is simply a dead horse looking at the mountain. The three of them walked for more than half an hour before finally reaching the target point Clark mentioned.

Walk eastward from the ridge of the field, enter the natural reserve of Kent Farm, walk out along a small road, and come to an open area like a paradise after turning seven or eight turns.

There is a forest on one side and windbreak plants on the other two sides, just like a fenced garden, but the actual area is also very large, and the windbreak forest on the opposite side almost disappears on the skyline.

This land looks a little different from other fields. The biggest difference is that the soil on the ground looks a little messy, without the obvious traces of tractor plowing in other farmlands.

"This was originally a farm vegetable field." Clark walked in and pointed to the land and introduced: "But last year during the spring plowing, our sheep happened to be infected with a disease. Mom and Dad were busy with the veterinarian to solve the problem of the sheep's infection, and they didn't have so much energy to take care of the farm."

"After they reacted, they found that they had missed the best planting season, and this vegetable field was empty. My dad originally proposed to plant some late-sown plants, but my mom said it would be better to take turns." 蟍

"Take turns?" Bruce asked with some doubts.

"Rotate the land and leave it fallow." Clark said as he looked around for something. "The fertility of the land is a gift from nature, but this gift is not always there. Plants will absorb nutrients from the land. If the nutrients are reduced after continuous planting, the yield will also decrease."

"So, we will not cultivate all the land, but let the land rest in rotation to restore the fertility. In fact, only about two-thirds of the land in the entire Kent Farm is cultivated now, and the rest is in a fallow period, just like the fishing moratorium."

"Last year, I didn't have time to sow, so my mother decided to plant this land first. The vegetable field was abandoned, and a new vegetable field was opened in another direction. This year, they decided to continue to plant that field. "

"But I think this land is already quite fertile. It has almost recovered after a year of repair. It would be a waste to leave it empty, so why don't we plant something together."

Bruce and Diana looked at each other. Neither of them seemed to want to ask that stupid question, but in the end it was Diana who spoke up: "So, what should we plant? How should we plant it?"

Before Clark could speak, Diana stretched out her hands and gestured, and then said "The Amazon mainly relies on hunting. We also plant, but at most we plant some herbs or something."

"Our planting method is to burn a piece of land and then directly sow seeds in it. No watering or pesticides are used. It all depends on God's favor. Whatever can grow is what can be grown. So, you'd better not expect me to provide any constructive advice."

Bruce also looked at Clark and said, "Don't look at me. I have almost no research on agriculture. You all know that Gotham cannot grow land. Plants are just like the people there. There are only two results, either death or madness."

Clark He sighed deeply and said, "That's why I brought you to this small piece of land for practice. If you were asked to drive a tractor directly on a large farm, you would definitely drive it crookedly."

"What's so difficult about driving a tractor?" Diana snorted and said, "Isn't it just like driving a car? At most, there are a few more buttons. I drive my car pretty well."

Clark rolled his eyes, but was too lazy to say more to her. He found a fallen tree in the nearby forest, chopped the trunk into several pieces, and then split the stake in the middle to make it a thinner stick.

Then, he inserted wooden sticks around the land and tied the flags to the tops of the sticks with hemp ropes. After finishing everything, he clapped his hands and said, "Okay, this is our experimental field. The method of planting ordinary vegetables is similar. We have to drive the tractor over first."

"Why do we have to drive the tractor first?" Bruce asked behind Clark, "Shouldn't we choose the type of plant first? And then pick the seeds?"

"Because we have to grab a good tractor first." Clark's pace was fast. He said, "Those hired sowers have their own tractors, but some don't drive their own tractors and want to use ours."

"We have a total of four tractors, but there are also new and old ones. Do you want to recall the glory of German industry in my grandfather's era?"

Bruce paused, he glanced at Diana next to him, but finally pulled Clark and said, "Fly over, I want the newest one."

Clark looked back in surprise. He glanced at Diana. Bruce cleared his cough and stared at Diana. Diana raised her hands and stepped back and said, "Okay, I definitely didn't see you flying up and kissing the geese last night."

"I wasn't kissing the geese!" Clark raised his voice and said a little angrily, but then his tone turned helpless: "Bat Cat went to the geese's dream to fight crime, causing the two geese to fall down while flying. I have to send them back."

Then Clark realized that he had missed something, so he stared at Bruce with some dissatisfaction, then looked at Diana and opened his mouth to explain.

Diana took back her hands and hugged them to her chest. Seeing the two boys staring at her, she sneered disdainfully, and then said, "Do you really think that flying is a rare thing?"

As soon as the voice fell, in Clark's shocked eyes, the black-haired princess jumped up.

Diana's figure drew a smooth arc in the air, like a fish swimming in the water, her long hair fluttering, and the waves in her eyes brighter than the morning light.

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