... tens of thousands of young spiders on each square yard of land simply vanish, and the swarms of fireflies that fly up from the stands of grass disappear at once. The second application kills off ... The Nature of Food, 247 Color, 247 Flavor, 248 The Staff of Life, 251 Summing Up Natural Diet, 253 The Diet of Non-Discrimination, 254 The Diet of Principle, 254 The Diet of the Sick, ... sees the pastoral green of barley and the blossoms of rape and clover from another age. Instead, desolate fields lie fallow, the crumbling bundles of straw portraying the chaos of modern farming...