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like good, clean fun to rouse a rabble and get them all excited about something they hardly know anything about,” Reger said. “That’s what’s happened with a whole lot of the concerns over protection of the environment,” he claimed.

People who smoke tobacco are hardly in a position to object to apple sprays, according to Reger. “There are stronger biological poisons in tobacco than in the materials used to control pests on apple orchards,” he added.

Two Provide For 100

“American farmers were at one time a very important group,” he stated. In the 1700’s ninety people were required to grow food for 100. During the 1800’s technological advances had improved to where it took only 50 fanners to grow food for 100 people. Now, two people can produce enough for 100, according to Reger.

“We’re about coming to the end of the road as far as farming goes,” he said. Food is going to have to get higher in price or there’s never going to be an end to the exodous from farms to the city, he insisted. In reviewing the history of chemical poisons, Reger reported that kerosene emulsions used to be used for head lice. Then copper and

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