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as Mr. Judkins says, some 01 these practices are already being followed, such as diversified rotation and cropping systems, green manure crops, recycling our sewage and manure to the land, large scale composting, biological insect controls, diseaseresistent varieties, diseaseresistant cultural practices, and many more now being researched. Unfortunately, this is being done too much on a small private scale and not enough by our government institutions like VPI. Then Mr. Judkins brings out that old bugaboo, trotted out over and over again in chemical industry propaganda, that “without the use of chemicals in agriculture, production would drop drastically and famine would soon claim millions of lives.” On the contrary, there are many who feel that if our agricultural methods are not drastically changed aiong with other pollution control measures in the next 25 years, we will all be destroyed by the destruction of oxygen in the air we breathe (by the deadly, continuing destruction of oxygenproducing sea plankton in part due to nitrates, some from the highanalysis nitrogen fertilizers so widely used).
Further, when Mr. Judkins talks about the United States having the healthiest people in the world, he had better recheck his statistics. The U. S. has made tremendous strides in saving people from communicable diseases, but there is a strange new scourage ol
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