The English translation is Tiangong Wu Kai; Neri's Translation Article —— The First Grain of Rice

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Where rice fields are harvested and no longer planted, the soil should be cultivated in autumn, so that the straw will rot and the enemy's dung power will be doubled. Or there is no water in autumn, and farming is postponed in spring, and the harvest is thin.

Where the manure field is scattered and watered, it is afraid of rain. When the water comes, the fertilizer will float away. Just look at the weather. Old farmers are calculating.

After one ploughing, three ploughing, and then fertilizing, the soil will be evenly broken and the paste veins will be dissolved. Poor cow, two people shoulder (pole) to lift the soil. They only have the strength of an ox. After ploughing, the cows are poor, so they are ground with their hands and shoulders. One day is the strength of three cows.

There are only two kinds of cattle in China: buffalo and yellow cattle. Buffalo is twice as powerful as Huang, but people who keep buffalo are twice as resourceful in keeping out the cold in winter, bathing in the pond in summer and raising cattle. Before the arrival of spring, all cows should work hard, sweat like rain, avoid raindrops and rain, and then rush indoors. After waiting in Grain Rain, they are not afraid of the wind and rain.

Farmers in Wujun spared no effort to replace plows with hoes. In my humble opinion, the poor peasant's house occupies the value of the ox and the capital of the aquatic plants, and it is not manpower and convenient to die secretly. Give them ten acres of land if there are scalpers, and half the diligence if there are no scalpers. Since there are no cows, after the autumn harvest, Mu Zhi's disease will no longer appear in the fields, but the fields will be plowed.

For rice, a few days after seedling division, the old leaves turn yellow and become new leaves. If the green leaves are long, you can stick sticks in your hands to support the mud and roots, and the weeds in Sutian will not grow. For example, weeds in Sutian will bend when they meet rice, but they will not grow.