Chapter 27 On the development of animal husbandry

(October 31, 1959) Comrade Wu Lengxi[1]: This article [2] is very good, please publish it in Xinhua News Agency's "Internal Reference".It seems that the pig industry must have a big development.Except for a few ethnic groups that ban pigs, the whole country should follow the method of Wangqiansi People's Commune in Wuqiao County, Hebei Province.In Wuqiao County, it is easy to raise funds, the policy is correct, the motivation is very high, and the development is rapid.The key lies in a great drive.Procrastination, difficulties, this is impossible, that is impossible, these are the worldviews of cowards and lazy people, without the slightest bit of Marxist-Leninist ambition, these people are about a step away from the style of a true communist. There are one hundred and eight thousand miles.I advise these comrades to think about it carefully and change their incorrect world outlook.I suggest that the Communist Party’s provincial committees (municipal committees, autonomous region party committees), prefectural committees, county committees, and commune party committees, as well as party organizations that manage districts, production teams, and production teams, take care of pig farming, cattle, sheep, donkeys, mules, and horses. Carefully consider, study, plan and take specific measures for raising chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, etc., and organize a committee or group for the animal husbandry and poultry industry, consisting of three, five to nine people, with one Comrades who are energetic, intelligent, and good at handling the matter act as leaders of committees or groups.That is, send a strong person to lead.Do a lot of feed production.There are various fine roughages.It seems that bread corn is the king of fodder.This is how America does it.The Soviet Union has now also begun to do big things.Wuqiao County, Hebei Province, China, has also begun to operate, which makes people very happy to see.The communes in various places raise pigs no less than Wuqiao, and there must be many more.The whole country should do it big and do it specially.This matter should be regarded as equally important as food, as important as staple foods such as rice, wheat, and millet that people eat, and corn should be elevated to the status of staple foods.Someone suggested that raising pigs to the top of the six domestic animals is not "horses, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs, and hogs (hogs are pigs)", but "pigs, cows, sheep, horses, chickens, and dogs".I agree with both hands, the pig takes the first place, it is just and fair.The great Soviet soil scientist and agronomist William [3] emphasized that agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry are interdependent and indispensable, and the three should be placed on an equal footing.This is absolutely true.I think that agriculture and forestry are the ancestors of the development of animal husbandry, and animal husbandry is the son of agriculture and forestry.Then, animal husbandry is the ancestor of agriculture and forestry (mainly agriculture), and agriculture and forestry have become sons again.This is the reason why the three are balanced and interdependent.The planting industry and animal husbandry in the United States are equally important.Our country must also take this route, because this is a scientific experience that has proved to be effective.The first source of fertilizer in our country is raising pigs and large livestock.One pig per person, one pig per mu, if it can be done, the main source of fertilizer will be solved.This is organic chemical fertilizer, which is ten times better than inorganic chemical fertilizer.A pig is a small organic fertilizer factory.Moreover, pigs have meat, bristles, skin, bones, and viscera (which can be used as raw materials for pharmaceuticals), so why not do it? Fertilizer is the food of plants, plants are the food of animals, and animals are human beings. food.From this point of view, it must be reasonable to raise pigs and other livestock on a large scale.It seems possible to accomplish this glorious and great task with one or two five-year plans.Equipping agriculture with machinery is the decisive condition for the great development of agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry.The Ministry of Agricultural Machinery has been established this year, and it seems that the realization of agricultural mechanization is not far away.

Mao Zedong October 31, 1959 Printed from manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Wu Lengxi, then president of Xinhua News Agency and editor-in-chief of People's Daily. [2] Refers to the Tianjin Animal Husbandry Bureau's September 1959 article titled "One Year of Hard Work Turned Over, Kuixingzhuang Production Team Raises Pigs and Accumulates Manure to Change the Face of Poverty".The article stated that the Kuixingzhuang Production Team of Wangqiansi Commune in Wuqiao County, Hebei Province had historically suffered from low food production and poor living conditions due to the sandy soil and insufficient fertilizers.Since 1958, unwilling to be poor, they have made up their minds to raise more pigs in order to increase food production.They overcame all kinds of difficulties, cadres took the lead, raised funds to buy pigs, built simple sheds, and unified leadership for public raising and private raising, fattening and vegetable farming, etc., and made comprehensive arrangements. , Insufficient in the team, "cash purchase" and other methods to solve the feed problem, turned over after a year of hard work.Not only solve the problem of eating meat, but also solve the problem of fertilizer.Taking pigs as the key link, the "six livestock" prospered, and the grain output more than doubled in a year. The poor team became the rich team, and the food-deficient team became the surplus food team.

[3] Williams, that is, Williams (1863-11939), Soviet soil scientist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, author of "Soil Science-Principles of Agronomy and Soil Science" and so on.