As for the dried soybean stalks...
Song Sancheng raised his voice, "Tantan, there are quite a lot of these bean stalks. Why don't you ask Old Li, does his cow eat them?"
If the cow eats them, he would haul a couple of baskets over in a few days, but the stalks are hard and need to be crushed before being fed to the cow.
Nowadays, there's only one cow in the entire village, and it's quite old. Song Tan agreed immediately:
"No need to ask, when the soybeans are harvested, I'll haul all the leftovers to him."
These stalks are high in nutritional content, and are more than adequate for the cow to get through winter. Besides, how much fertilizer can such a small amount make? There's plenty of other stuff that can be used as fertilizer.
Better to give it all to the old cow.
After all, the temperature drops here in November and doesn't start to rise slowly until March of the next year. In the dead of winter, there's hardly any grass or leaves to eat.
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