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VOL. 4 NO. 1 



JANUARY 1955 



\ free semiannual periodical published as part 

 of the annual report of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. 



.•\11 requests for Research in Review should be 

 addressed to the Mailing Room, South College, 

 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass- 

 achusetts. 



Director — Dale H. Sibling 

 Editor — Portia A. Ierardi 

 Photographe) — JoHN H. Vondell 



MSG Enhances Frozen Foods 3 



Needle Blight Mystery Disease of 

 Eastern White Pine_ _ 4 



The Stockbridge School of Agri- 

 culture 6 



Hairy Turkeys Can Be Eliminated. 1 1 



Diet of Expectant Mothers Signifi- 

 cant Health Factor 12 



Seeds Get Third Degree at Seed 

 Testing Laboratory 14 



Dr. Van Roekel Recipienv of i.^.ior- 

 national Award Back Cover 



Cover: L. Roy Howes, Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture in Massachusetts and New England repre- 

 sentative to the resource conservation advisory 

 group to Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Benson. 

 Mr. Howes has also held many important posts 

 In foreign agriculture in Italy and South America. 



A firm advocate of conservation, Commis- 

 sioner Howes has applied conservation prac- 

 tices to his own 127-acre farm in North Sudbury 

 where he has 700 feet of diversion terrace, 4 

 acres drained, and three ponds constructed for 

 irrigation, stock water, and fire protection. 



Since this issue is featuring The Stockbridge 

 School of Agriculture and some of its outstanding 

 graduates, it is fitting that the spotlight fall on 

 Commissioner Howes, a member of the first 

 class to be graduated from Stockbridge. See 

 pages 6-10 for story. 



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Levi Stockbridge was a man who loved 

 agriculture and contributed much to teaching, 

 research, and the agricultural industry. As a 

 practical educator, it was through his leader- 

 ship that the research program of the Mass- 

 achusetts Agricultural Experiment Station was 

 started. He worked out formulas that revo- 

 lutionized the fertilizer industry, and the 

 money received in royalties was used in ex- 

 perimental work that helped to lay the foun- 

 dation of the Experiment Station movement in 

 this country. Because knowledge of scien- 

 tific agriculture was very limited at the time/ 

 Stockbridge had to blaze his own way with- 

 out books or charts into the unknown field of 

 agricultural education. His contribution to 

 that field, locally and nationally, was sig- 

 nificant. It is, therefore, appropriate that 

 the specialized two-year course in practical 

 agriculture at the University of Massachu- 

 setts should bear his name ... a fine tribute 

 to a great man. 



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