March is the season when everything recovers and the grass grows and the warbler flies. After a winter of soil deposition, the crop land becomes hardened and the flowers bloom in spring. At the same time, all kinds of weeds in the land also begin to grow savagely. Therefore, weeding and ploughing before sowing can effectively reduce diseases and pests and make the hardened soil loose and breathable. The fields in our mountains are basically ridge fields, and the fields assigned to each family are basically scattered, one ridge after another, There are many distances between each field, so the traditional cattle farming mode is still used. With the mechanization of agriculture, there are few scenes of cattle plowing and harrowing the field, and the plowing and harrowing are less and less known. Here is a brief introduction:
Plow is a kind of agricultural tool for cultivated land, which is composed of a plowshare, plow tip, plow mirror, plow bed, plow support, plow column and so on. When ploughing, put the yoke around the cow's neck, and the front of the plow is dragged by the cow. People stand behind the plow, hold the plow tip with their right hand, hold the whip and cow rope with their left hand, grasp the direction of the plow, turn back and forth and the depth of the plow into the soil, and plough out the groove, so as to prepare for sowing.
In the field just ploughed, the clods are very large and need to be crushed with a rake. The rake is generally composed of four hardwoods to form a large rectangular wooden frame. More than 10 slightly curved blades are installed on two long hardwoods, and the two ropes on the yoke are respectively tied to both sides of the "rake". When raking the field, put the big wooden frame flat on the water surface, with the nail teeth facing down and cut into the soil. One foot in front of the other, stand on the front and back two wide wooden strips respectively, and add the weight of people to make the nail teeth cut into the soil. Several times back and forth, the soil just ploughed out was cut into pieces by the blade. If the soil needs to be broken, rake it several times.
After raking the field, the rice seedlings cannot be transplanted. The field mud is still too thick and the soil is uneven. It is necessary to refine the field mud with "middle", and transport the soil from the higher part of the soil to the lower part, so as to make the whole field soil as flat as before. The utility model is mainly composed of the upper two cross bars, the lower cross bar and the left and right vertical bars. The upper two cross bars are used to hold, and the lower bar is equipped with more than 10 iron drill rods with a length of about 20 cm, which are strung into a horizontal row and arranged at uniform intervals, and the vertical bars are used to fix. In Zhongtian, put the yoke around the cow's neck, stand behind the "Zhong", hold the top cross bar with one hand, hold the whip and cow rope in one hand, and the uneven soil will be as flat as the water and the mud will be broken into slurry.
With the development of the times, machine farming is slowly replacing cattle farming, and the agricultural tools and operating procedures such as plow, rake and middle are gradually fading out of people's vision.
Post time: Mar-18-2022