Chapter 7 Cows

The previous owner of the Mohist Bead, in addition to this bead, he also left other inheritances, which were locked in an iron cabinet in the yard of the Mohist Bead Small World.

Wu Siyuan pried open the iron cabinet and took out two things.

It was also the account book of a foreign opium merchant in the late Qing Dynasty, but it was of no use to Wu Siyuan and was anonymously donated by him to a domestic museum for research.

And the other thing is another trophy obtained from the foreign opium merchants by the previous owner of the Mohist bead - three Western oil paintings!

One is an oil painting of a Russian girl picking flowers. The other two oil paintings are one of a ballet girl dancing, and the other is a fairy tale oil painting of a man with goat legs chasing three naked girls in the woods. women, and the three women turned back and smiled wantonly at the man with goat legs.

These three oil paintings were painted by famous Russian and French painters respectively. The painter himself is famous in the world and is highly sought after by the old wealthy people in Europe, America and Russia.

It's a pity that Wu Siyuan has no feelings.

Like the original owner, he contacted a large foreign auction house to appraise and auction the three oil paintings.

More than a month later, Wu Siyuan, who went to the United States, successfully received the auction payment - more than 100 million US dollars.

Of course, after deducting the evil taxes in the United States, Wu Siyuan only got more than 70 million US dollars.

If converted into RMB, there would still be 4 to 5 billion yuan.

If Wu Siyuan can apply for a U.S. green card like the original owner, he can avoid a lot of taxes.

But forget it!

Just tens of millions of dollars.

Too lazy to bother!

However, Wu Siyuan still wants to buy the American ranch.

Wu Siyuan’s purpose of buying the ranch is not to enjoy life like the original owner, but to use the shell of the ranch to conveniently purchase various high-quality beef cattle, dairy cows, or other livestock in the United States, and then use the Mohist legacy to Oh, the Mohist legacy has been swallowed up by [Shennongjiao Space]. It should be said that it is the special attribute of [Shennongjiao Space] to cultivate better quality livestock breeds. By then, whether in the novel world of "Alpine Pasture", Or go back to the real world, you can still achieve great things.

There are very few things you can't do with money in America.

Wu Siyuan paid for a real estate agent. Inspired by the US dollars, the real estate agent did his best to identify several pastures for Wu Siyuan.

Finally, a ranch in Montana with an area of ​​only 10,000 acres was selected.

Converted into units familiar to Chinese people, it is more than 60,000 acres.

This is a pasture with an area of ​​60,000 acres.

You know, in the real world, Wu Siyuan established a [Fruit Cultivation Base] in Gui Province, China, with a total land area of ​​only more than 100,000 acres, and it was rented.

In the United States, any pasture has more than 60,000 acres, and the land is still your own and your private property.

This is still small.

Several of the ranches that the real estate agent recommended to Wu Siyuan were between 40,000 and 50,000 acres.

If converted into units of acres, it would be more than 200,000 acres.

In the old days, he was a proper big landowner! Powerful!

But in the United States, it is very common, and larger ranches have them.

It's a pity that although Liangyuan is good, it is not my hometown.

The air in the United States is too sweet, and Wu Siyuan still prefers the smell of fireworks in his hometown.

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Montana has fresh air and a temperature of only ten degrees. It is a famous wealth state in the United States and the home of the sky. There is basically no heavy industry, mainly agriculture and some mining industries. The natural environment is extremely well preserved, including Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park and other various natural resource reserves.

Many wealthy people choose to buy ranches here.

Of course, the rich may do it for enjoyment, but Wu Siyuan's purpose has always been clear, which is to cultivate high-quality livestock breeds.

The first target he targeted was the cow!

For consumers, cattle are divided into two types, one is a dairy cow, which is used to produce milk for drinking, and the other is a beef cow, which is used for eating meat.

Speaking of cows.

I have to talk about one variety.

Holstein cows!

Holstein cows are native to the provinces of Noord-Holland and West Frisian in the northern Netherlands. Due to their strong domestication ability, most countries in the world can raise them and have cultivated Holstein cows with their own local characteristics. Named after the country, such as American Holstein cattle, Canadian Holstein cattle, Japanese Holstein cattle, Chinese Holstein cattle, etc.

The breeding history of Holstein cows is very long. As early as the 15th century, Holstein cows were famous for their high milk production. They are one of the breeds with the highest milk production in the world. The average annual output can reach 11,800 kilograms, which is a record. A record production of 32,740 kilograms of milk was produced in 365 days.

In the past century, due to different countries' different breeding directions for Holstein cattle, the [dairy type] represented by the United States, Canada, Israel and other countries, and the [dairy type] represented by the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and other European countries have been bred. The representative two types of [milk and meat].

Holstein cattle, which are used both for milk and meat, are slightly smaller than dairy cattle. They have low, wide and deep bodies, soft and slightly thick skin, square rump, short and open limbs, straight limbs, slightly rectangular when viewed from the side, and evenly developed breasts. They weigh, stretch forward and back, are well attached, and are mostly square and round; the coat color is the same as that of the milk type, but the flowers are more neat and beautiful.

The weight of an adult bull is 900-1 100 kg, and that of a cow is 550-700 kg. The calf's birth weight is 35-45 kg.

Its average milk production is lower than that of the dairy type. The annual milk production is generally 4500-6000 kg, and the milk fat rate is 3.\n9%~4.\n5%. Individual high yielders can weigh more than 10,000 kilograms.

However, the [dairy and meat Holstein cattle] have better meat performance. The average live weight of fattened bulls at 500 days of age is 556 kg, and the slaughter rate is 62.\n8%.

A notable feature of this cattle in terms of meat use is its high daily weight gain during the fattening period. According to the measurement of 517 Holstein bulls in Denmark from 1967 to 1970, the average daily weight gain was 1,195 grams. The culled cows were fattened for 100 to 150 days. After slaughtering, the average daily weight gain is 900 to 1,000 grams.

The appearance characteristics of [dairy Holstein cattle] are tall and well-proportioned, with thin skin and fine bones, less subcutaneous fat, extremely large breasts, obvious milk veins, hindquarters more developed than forequarters, and a wedge shape when viewed from the side. Breast-type appearance.

The coat has short hair, with black and white patches with clear boundaries, a white star on the forehead, and white under the abdomen, lower parts of the limbs (below the wrists and hock joints) and the tail broom.

The birth weight of calves is 40 to 50 kg, that of adult bulls is between 900 and 1200 kg, and that of adult cows is between 650 and 750 kg.

This type of dairy Holstein cow has the highest milk production among all dairy breeds.