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Show Page Sunday, May 14. 1972 HERALD, Provo, Utah 43-- THE Moondust Proves Fertile BEACH MIAMI (UPI) -S- pace scientists don't hXe to brag, but they think they have found something that nourishes seedlings better than the rich soil of Iowa's corn belt. It is moondust. In experiments conducted at the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center, seedlings were planted in samples of lunar soil, Iowa soil, and Hawaiian corn-growi- basalt with added the ingredients to approximate volcanic moon's composition. "The lunar material gave the most nutritious mixture," Dr. Walkinshaw of the Charles iSemin-a- r spacecraft center told a Thursday. medicine on space "In some cases, plants grew twice or three times as fast in ' BIG FREEZER SECTION... "A lunar material. "This is a unique chemical mixture of elements that form nutrients the plants can take up said of readily," Walkinshaw no defrosting ever! Jjp3Sj Freezerho!dsuptg148lbs. 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