In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, what class are the Fertilizers and why?

Question

I've read the first couple of chapters carefully and I can't seem to find it. I thought maybe it was one of those things where you had to infer from the text, but I still couldn't find it.

Anyway, it said that there were 300 of them, right, which would imply they were lower caste since they produced those clones to do the same thing (but it doesn't say the Fertilizers themselves are clones of each other), but wouldn't they have to be more intelligent than some of the other people? Which would mean a higher caste?

I've looked everywhere on the internet, can't find it.

Also, I asked a couple of other questions earlier about the book, but no one answered.

Answer 1

Have you tried randomly googling for the answer? That can sometimes help.