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More than twenty years ago, the wheat harvest, farmers old-timers how to deal with wheat straw?

One of the most important things to do is to stock up and burn it as firewood

There aren't enough trees in the countryside in the plains to cut them down, so it's very important to have the firewood you need to make a fire and cook your meals on a regular basis. Wheat straw is a very easy to burn material, hoarding up and very convenient, just before cooking, will be hoarding good wheat straw on the arms, will be enough to do a meal of fuel.

This is an indispensable resource that farmers don't waste. And in today's countryside, you can still see some old farmers using straw to make fire for cooking. You can also see piles of straw in the villages.

Second, making adobe, mud plastered walls, roofs, etc.

Nowadays, China's economic development is getting faster and faster, and it can be said that it is one day at a time. Looking at today's skyscrapers, it's hard to imagine that twenty years ago in the countryside, straw was used to make adobe, mixed with mud to coat walls and roofs.

Mixed with straw in the mud, the mud can make the combination of sex, cohesion greatly enhanced, and now the cement mixed with rebar is almost the same. Don't underestimate the straw's fragile body, when the straw is soaked in water and moistened, its flexibility is very strong, it is difficult to pull off, mixed with the mud together with the construction of housing can greatly increase the sturdiness of the house, and in the rainy days to make the walls and roof of the mud is not easy to flow down.

Three, livestock bedding, packing filler

Twenty years in the countryside, families have livestock, pigs, chickens, ducks, cows, sheep, most of which also need a warm nest. Sun-dried wheat straw, put together in piles, can provide great warmth to the livestock wrong use, but also in the trunk of the bird's nest can be seen in the wheat straw.