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poisoning of our environment is certainly not simple, but it’s going to take a lot more than what sounds like chemical industry handouts delivered to the public through the hands of professors of land-grant institutions. It’s going to take research by these same institutions in many new fields or rather into new ways in the old fields, of chemistry, biology, ecology, to find new ways of growing our foods that takes into account the longterm health of the land and our people. Many farmers are experimenting on their own with quite good success. Let VPI encourage them, rather than pooh-pooh all who are trying. Certainly the old ways have not made farming a prosperous industry in America. The farmer has been the fijrst victim of greater and greater expenditures required in intensive agriculture, where both the land and the farmer are being pushed farther into an economic hole by the necessity of large cash outlays for chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. For instance, a local farmer told me he had to use weed killers because if he did not, the large amounts of nitrogen he felt he had to use to get big yields also produced so many weeds that he couldn’t stay ahead of them, by oldfashioned cultivating. Sounds
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