Chapter 1287: Guo Tiebing Took Office and Received a "Welcome Gift," and Li Long Helped Root Out a Scourge
Clearing cotton stalks was both simple and complicated. All it took was a small four-wheel tractor pulling a stalk beating machine through the fields.
When they decided to plant over a thousand mu of cotton, Li Long had told Xie Yundong that the Cooperative needed a full set of equipment.
They could not bring the high-horsepower tractors into it, since that would give the Li Family too large a share and upset the balance. But they could buy a few more stalk beating machines, which only cost one or two hundred yuan each, to make clearing the stalks easier.
Five tractors with five stalk beating machines chugged across the cotton fields, knocking down swaths of stalks, which the people following behind gathered into piles with pitchforks.
The stalks, still bearing leaves and cotton bolls, would be gathered together and hauled to Old Ma's Place as fodder for the cattle and sheep.
At the edge of the field, Xie Yundong said to Li Long with a grin:
"Yesterday, Ma Jinbao was saying he'd bring his sheep in once we'd finished picking the bolls along the edges, so his sheep could get the first bite. Heh, he won't get his chance now."
"No, he won't. Once the stalks here are cleared and hauled away, the high-horsepower tractors will come in. After plowing, we'll irrigate again before the ground freezes to flush out the alkali. That should reduce the salt and alkali in the soil next year."
Everything Li Long described was technical work that had proven effective in later years. Judging by their farming results over the past few years, if he suggested something, there was a reason for it, so Xie Yundong