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ROBERT E. HARGROVE HONORED

•Robert E. Hargrove, a U. S. Department of Agriculture bacteriologist, was honored on May 17 for developing a method now widely used by commercial cheesemakers to protect bacterial cultures from bacteriophage.

This phage spread rapidly in cheese plants after 1950 and cost the industry as much as 5 million dollars a year by making a total estimated loss of one per cent of the cheese made and significantly lowering the quality of another 10 per cent. Bacteriophage has now been virtually eliminated by a simple phosphate treatment for starter milks devised by Mr. Hargrove, a scientist in the Eastern Utilization Research and Development Division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

In recognition of this development, Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman presented Mr. Hargrove with the Department's Superior Service Award in ceremonies at the Sylvan Theater on the grounds of the Washington Monument.