Bulletin of the Green Section 
of the U. S. Golf Association

A MONTHLY PERIODICAL TO PROMOTE THE 
BETTERMENT OF GOLF COURSES
ISSUED BY THE GREEN COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION

P. 0. Box 313, Pennsylvania Avenue Station, Washington, D C.

WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 31, 1921

Contents of Volume (1921) Indexed

Accounting systems, standardization of, 146.
Acid phosphate (see under Fertilizers).
Aciditv, soil, effect on grasses and weeds, 27, 

31, 142.

of decaying leaves, 122.

Arsenite of soda, for weed eradication, 127, 

128-131.

/Ashes, as a top-dressing, 71.
Axonopus compressus (see Carpet grass).

Advertisements, necessity for declining, 123. 
Aerating turf, 152, 160.
Agrostis alba (see Redtop), 

canina (see Velvet bent, under Bent 

Bacterial inoculation, 118.
Bacterized humus, 168.
Bank-holding plants, 245.
Beetle (see also White grubs).

grasses).

grasses).

stolonifera (see Creeping bent, under Bent 

tennis (see Rhode Island bent, under Bent 

grasses).

vulgaris (see Rhode Island bent, under 

Bent grasses).

Alcohol, for crab-grass eradication, 90.
Alga, removing from ponds, 261.
Alkalinity, soil, effect on grasses and weeds, 27, 

31,* 43, 142.

Ammonium chloride, for earthworm eradica­

tion, 82, 212.

Ammonium muriate, for brown-patch disease, 

151.

Ammonium sulphate, as weed eradicator, 31, 

118 (see also under Fertilizers).

Angleworms (see Earthworms).
Annual bluegrass:

discussion of and illustrations, 39. 
eradication, 151, 188, 213.
uses for, 152.

Ants, extermination, 118, 143.
Architects, The Golf Club and the Golf Course 

Architect, 140-141.

Architecture, golf: 

bunkers, 259. 
contours, 67. 
a few opinions, 223-225. 
golf club and the golf course architect, 

140-141.

green-keeping problems involved in course- 

planning, 170.

meditations of a peripatetic golfer, 216, 

240, 264.

platitudes on, 83-85, 216, 223-225 
reflections on bunkers, 196.

damage at Pine Valley from grubs of the 
Southern Green June-beetle, 252-254.

hickory-tree barkbeetle, 219
Japanese beetle in relation to golf grounds, 

Southern Green June-beetle, 60-63, 252-254, 

210-211.

263.

Bent grass:

brown bent, definition, 37.
carpet bent, definition, 37.

in vegetative propagating rows, illus­

tration, 125.

colonial bent, definition, 37.
creeping bent, definition, 37.
lime not to be used with, 263.
number of seeds per pound, 18.
rate of seeding, 65, 95.
reaction to soil acidity and alkalinity, 2'7, 

32.

response to fertilizers, 28.
Rhode Island bent seed, description and 

illustration, 37-39.

Rhode Island bent seed situation, 162-164.
soil for, 142.
South German mixed bent seed described 

(illustrated), 37-39.

turf grass seeds to buy and how to buy 

them, 14-17.

vegetative propagation of, 124-126.
velvet bent, description and illustration of 

seed, and value of, 191.

eradication of, 107.
for southern California courses, 107.
improving by strain-selection, 95.
in southern courses, 26, 93, 214, 215, 236, 

239, 251, 256.

Bermuda grass:

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Bermuda grass: (Continued) 

number of seeds per pound, 18. 
rate of seeding, 239. 
top-dressed with sand, 66. 
vegetative planting of, 138.

Betting, 2-10.

- Bichloride of mercury (see Corrosive sub­

limate).

228-231.

Birds. Attracting birds to golf courses, 216, 

robins damaging turf, 237.
Blood, dried, as fertilizer, 200, 239.
Bluegrass (see Annual bluegrass; Canada blue­
grass; Kentucky bluegrass; Rough-stalked 
bluegrass; Texas bluegrass).

Bone-meal, characteristics and value, 202 (see 

also under Fertilizers).

Bordeaux (see Brown-patch disease, treatment 

of).

Boulders, dynamiting, 208.
Boxes for tees, arrangement, position, con­
struction of (illustrations and drawings), 
216-251.

Brown-patch disease. At Morris Countv Golf 

Club, 111-112.

cause of, 151.
grasses resistant to, 115, 151. 
history, characteristics, treatment, 111-115. 
recoverv from, 161, 237.
treatment for, 111-115, 148, 150, 151, 251.

Buckhorn, eradicating, 25.
Budgets, preparation of, for green committee, 

243.

Bulletin of the Green Section, 3, 8, 10.
Bunkers, architecture of, 240, 250 (see also 

Architecture).

Club), two views of, 155-156.

best kind of sand for, 22’0. 
construction of, 67, 196, 216. 
economically raking, and how to determine 

their efficiency in trapping balls, 219.

reflections on, 196.
sheep’s fescue for covering mounds, 21, 263.

Burning, from fertilizers, 205, 213, 238. 

the rough, 24, 154.

Centipede-grass for southern courses, 95.
Chalk as top-dressing for putting-greens, 71.
Changa (see Mole-cricket).
Chara, removing from ponds, 261.
Charcoal, powdered, for use on greens, 192.
Charleston grass, 245.
Chemical weed-killers, 128-131, 146.
Chickweed. A troublesome chickweed (Stel- 
laria graminea), eradication, with illustra­
tions, 206-207.

killing chickweed with arsenite of soda (at 

Merion Cricket Club), 12'6-128.
Cinder layers in putting-greens, 45, 87, 96.
Clay soils,' treatment of, 238.
Clubs, financial problems of small, 47.

nine and eighteen hole courses, number of, 

72.

Coco (see Nut-grass).
Collegiate instruction of green-keepers at Cor­

nell University, 141, 149.

Columbia Country Club. Fifth-hole bunker, 

two views of, 155-156.

sixteenth hole, view of, 6.
winter work at, 17, 33, 45.

Compost. Compost and the construction of 

compost heaps (illustrated), 57-60.

lime in composting, 44.
making and use of compost, 26, 51-57, 71.
Construction (see under Courses; Fairways; 

and Putting-greens).
Contouring greens, 67.
Copper sterate, for brown-patch disease, 114, 

151.

ponds, 261.

sulfate, for removing vegetation from 

Cornell University, green-keepers’ instruction 

Corrosive sublimate. A new method of apply­
ing corrosive sublimate in destroying earth­
worms, 212.

brown-patch treatment, 151.
earthworm extermination, 69, 81-82, 191, 

212.

harmless to turf grasses, 69, 191.
southern green June-beetle treatment, 253.
Cost. Efficiencv in golf course construction, 

140, 208-209. ’

a wonderful bunker (at Columbia Country 

at, 141, 149.

Caddies. A valuable caddie book, 219. 

consideration for, 209, 240.
Calcium cyanide, as a fertilizer, 200.
California. Making putting-greens on a south­

ern California golf course, 107-111.

turf grasses for, 95, 214.

putting-green construction at Columbia 

Country Club, 36.

Cottonseed-hull putting-green, 244.
Cottonseed-meal as a fertilizer, 200, 213, 255.
Courses. Efficiency in golf course construction 

(Eastward Ho)’208-209.

Canada bluegrass, for Canadian fairways, 167.
Carbon bisulphide. Ant extermination, 68. 

golf club and the golf course architect, 140. 
green-keeping problems of course plan­

crab-grass eradication, 90. 
crawfish extermination, 47.
June-beetle extermination, 63, 252, 253. 
killing grass, 232.
white grub extermination, 118, 176, 232.

ning, 170-171.

189.

most important thing on a golf course, 187- 

nine and eighteen hole courses, relative 

proportion of, 72.

Carpet-bent (see under Bent-grass).
Carpet grass, description and uses (illus­

Cover-crops for Florida golf courses, 144.
Cow-manure, conducive to infestations by 

trated), 256-258.

for southern fairways, 26, 72, 95, 239, 256. 
rate of seeding, 239, 256.

Cattle, pasturing for fertilization, 255.

southern green June-beetle, 253.

as a fertilizer, 255.

Crab-grass (see also Goose-grass).
and asset in fairways, 149 166.

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III

Crab-grass (see also Goose-grass). (Cont’d) 

description, illustration, 88-92. 
eradication, 88-92, 128, 149, 165, 215, 254. 
reaction to fertilizers, 165, 215.

Crawfish extermination, 46.
Creepting bent, 37 (see also under Bent-grass). 
Creeping Charley (see Chickweed).
Cuppie-lies formed bv sheep’s fescue, removal 

of, 263.

Cutting (see Mowers and mowing). 
Cuttings, removal of, 180, 240.
Cynodon grasses for California courses, 95.

Daddy-longlegs, treatment for, 262. 
Dandelion eradication, 25, 129-130.

hand-weeder (Escanaba Golf Club) (illus­

tration), 182.

Dear Bill letters, 63, 92, 139, 157, 183, 211.
Dear Chauncey letters, 189, 258.
Digitaria humifusa (see Carpet grass).
sanguinalis (see Carpet grass).

Disking turf, 160.
District green sections, advantages of, 149, 171- 

Philadelphia section organized, 74, 194, 195.
St. Louis section organized, 235.

Ditch-hazard. Remedying a muddy ditch-haz­

172’.

ard, 220.

Drainage, and winter-killing, 46.
improving, 45, 46, 96, 161.
necessity of, 260, 264.
Subirrigated greens at the St. Louis Coun­

try Club (illustrated), 85-87.

Dried blood (see Blood, dried). 
Drinking fountains, 240.
Dynamiting boulders, 208.

undesirability of, for drainage, 46.

Earthworms. A new method of applying cor­
rosive sublimate in destroving earthworms, 
212.

description, habits, 75-82.
exterminating, 24, 27, 45, 69, 79-82, 191, 

212.

killers, composition of, 27, 69, 79-82. 
relation of, to gaps in chickens, 164.
season for commencing the extermination 

Eastward Ho. Efficiency in golf course con­

of, 45, 161.

struction, 208-2’09.

Editorial responsibility, 146.
Efficiency Edgar on a golf course, 219.

in golf course construction, 208-209. 

Eleusine indica (see Goose-grass). 
Eremochloa grasses for California courses, 95. 
Ether for crab-grass eradication, 90. 
Experience and experiments, 230. 
Experimental turf plots, 42-43, 95.

Fairways, architecture of, 240 (see also Archi­

tecture).

construction of ,2'08-209.
crab-grass an asset in, 149, 166.
grasses for California, 95, 214.

northern, 14, 17, 26, 65, 120, 149, 166, 

167, 168, 190.

southern, 26, 72, 93, 214, 215, 236, 239, 

245, 254, 256.

western Canadian, 167.

gravelly places in, treatment of, 255.
how we solved the problem of good fair­

way turf at Pine Valley, 98-103.

improving, 260.
mowing, 115-117, 152-154.
seeding, rate of, 65, 209.
stones, removing from, 24, 98-103.

Fall-grass (see Crab-grass).
Fall treatment, seeding of putting-greens, 167, 

192.

some suggestions for fall treatment of put­

ting-greens, 159-161.
Fertilizers (see also Manure). 
acid, 27, 32, 142, 239. 
acid phosphate for putting-greens, 143. 
alkaline, 27, 32, 142, 239. 
ammonium sulfate, 27, 31-33, 161, 192. 
burning of grass from, 205, 213, 238. 
chemical, 197-205, 255, 261. 
commercial fertilizers, 197-205, 261. 
complete, 65, 131, 204. 
cottonseed-meal, 200, 213, 255. 
effect on white grubs, 233.
fertilizers for golf courses (R. J. H. De­

Loach), 186-187.

fish-scrap, 200, 239, 255.
mixing, 65, 204.
neutral, 27, 32, 239.
nitrate of soda for putting-greens, 143, 161, 

238, 239, 254.

rate of application, 238, 254. 

putting-green fertilizers, 46, 143, 161, 238, 

239, 254.

rate of application, 65, 205, 238, 254. 
relative response of grasses to, 28. 
tea leaves, 263.
tobacco stems, 192.
young-grass fertilizers, 238.

Fescue, cutting, care advisable in, 168. 
fine-leafed, as shade grass, 245. 
for the south, 95, 107-111, 214. 
number of seeds per pound, 18. 
rate of seeding, 95.
reaction of, to soil acidity and alkalinitv, 

32.

response to fertilizers, 28. 
red, as shade grass, 245. 
sheep’s eradicating, 263. 

for bunker mounds, 21, 263. 
for the rough, 69, 263.

soil for, 142.
turf grass seeds to buy and how to buy 

them, 14-17.

Financial problems and arrangements, 47, 243.
Finger-grass (see Crab-grass).
Fish-scrap (see under Fertilizers).
Fishworms (see Earthworms).
Forking turf, 160.
Formaldehyde for sterlizing soil, 120.
Formalin for crab-grass eradication, 90.
Foundry screening devices, 251.

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Garden, turf (see under Turf).
Gasoline for weed eradication, 90, 129.
Geese for exterminating southern green June- 

beetle, 253.

Germinating layer, compost as, 57 (see also un­

der Testing seeds).

Golf, increasing popularity of, 103.
Goose-grass {Eleusine indica), description and 

illustration, 181-185.

Grading, 33; Efficiency in golf course construc­

tion, 208-209.

Grass (see under various grass-names; also 
under Bunkers, Fairways, Putting-greens, 
and Rough).

Grasses, species of, 255.
Grasshoppers, control of, 166.
Gravelly places, treatment of, 255, 260.
Green committee, first meeting of, 11.

budgets, 243.
membership of, 5, 7, 9.
program of, 8.
purchasing for a green committee, 30-31.

Green-keepers, training of, 27, 141, 149.
notable green-keepers, 226-228.

Green-keeping problems of course planning, 

170-171.

Green section, annual meeting at Chicago, 242. 

function of, 70.
meeting of, at St. Louis Country Club, 

September, 1921, 194.

Washington, D. C., July, 1921, 147-152.

membership of, 242.
organization of, 2-12.
the Green Section extends thanks, 242.

Gridiron course, 240.
Ground puppy (see Mole-cricket).
Grubs (see Beetles, also J17u7e grubs).
Gullies, attending to, 48.
Gyratory screening riddles, 251.

Harrowing to eradicate crab-grass, 254, 255.
Hazards (see also Architecture).

natural, 240.
remedying a muddy ditch hazard, 220.

Heal-all, eradication of, 25.
Hickory-tree barkbeetle, 219.
Holes, advisability of making new holes fre­

quently in spring, 24.

arrangement and length of, 224-225.
nine and 18 hole courses, number of, 72.

Honeysuckle as bank holder, 245.
Humus, bacterized, 168.

barnyard manure the best form of, 65. 
commercial humus, when to use, 96, 213. 
cost of, 259.
humus-producing materials and the making 

and use of compost, 51-60.

lime used with, 44, 213.
muck, use and toxicity of, 26, 53, 71.
peat, use and toxicitv of, 53, 71.
toxicity of, 26, 28, 53, 65, 71, 213.
use of’, 26, 28, 51-60, 190, 213, 255.
Hunan grass for southern courses, 95.
Hvdrochloric acid for crabgrass eradication, 

Hgdrocotgle rotundifolia (see Lown penny­

90.

wort).

Inoculation, bacterial, 118, 168.
Inverness Club. Sodding at Inverness (illus­

trated), 132-136.

spring work at Inverness, 19.

Irrigation (see Sub-irrigation and also under 

Watering).

Iron sulphate, for brown-patch disease, 114. 

for weed-eradication, 25, 128.
Japan clover for southern fairways, 93.
Japanese beetle in relation to golf grounds, 210- 

Japanese honeysuckle as a bank holder, 245.

Kentucky bluegrass, for Canadian fairwavs, 

211.

167.

for New Hampshire fairways, 120.
number of seeds per pound, 18.
rate of seeding, 65.
reaction to soil acidity and alkalinity, 32.
response to fertilizers, 28.
the turf grass seeds to buy and how to buy 

them, 14-17.

Kerosene emulsion, for white grubs, 62.
for southern green June-beetle, 252. 
preparation of, 62, 176.

Labor, hiring and paying, 31.

labor-saving device for screening top-dress­

ings (illustrated), 251.

Lawn pennywort, description and eradication 

(illustrated), 220-222.

Leaves, acidity of decaying, 122.

composting, 54.
leaf-mold, composting, 54, 190.
tea leaves as fertilizer, 263.

Lifting turf, 35, 132, 160.
Lime, dust of, blowing on turf, 96.

effect on grasses and on weeds, 33, 213, 

in compost piles, 51-60.
in southern green June-beetle treatment, 

238, 263.

253.

use and abuse of lime, 43-14.
use of, 55, 60, 71, 119, 142, 186, 201, 213.

Local limitations of golf course practice, 72.

Manure, composting, 52-60.

cow manure as fertilizer, 255.
effect of, on white grubs, 233.
effect of, on southern green June-beetle, 

253.

horse manure as the best fertilizer, 46, 51, 

65, 143, 239.
as top-dressing, 71, 236, 239.

sheep manure, rate of application, 208.
value of, 54, 262.
vitality of weed seeds in, 27, 120.

Mascarene grass, use of, and description, 47.
May-beetle (see White grubs).
Meditations of a peripatetic golfer, 216, 240, 

264.

Membership fee in Green Section, 3, 8, 74, 122. 

membership of Green Section, 242.

Mercuric chloride for brown-patch disease, 114. 
Merion Cricket Club, fighting the white grub 

at, 231-235.

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V

Mole cricket, West Indian, characteristics of, 
and control measures (illustrated), 72, 104- 
106.

Moles, traps for, 68.
Moorestown Field Club, view of creeping-bent 

nursery, 181.

Moss, eradication of, 119, 130.
Most important thing on a golf course, 187-181,.
Mowers and mowing:
fairways, 115-117.
fescue, 168.
horse-drawn, makes of, 67.
improvising a mowing machine at Glen 
Echo Country Club (illustrated), 152- 
154.

lawn-mower and its care, 177-180. 
power-mowers for fairways, 115-117. 
putting-greens, 21, 168, 238.
removal of cuttings, 180.
questionnaires on tractors and fairway 
mowers and on putting-green mowers, 
218.

Mowrah meal as an earthworm exterminator, 

Muck (see Humus).
Muriate of potash, in Commercial Fertilizers, 

79-82.

197-205.

Mushroom soil, as a top-dressing, 35.
nature and value of, 52, 262.
where obtainable, 71.

Nicotine in southern green June-beetle treat­

ment, 253.

Nitrate of soda (see also under Fertilizers): 
applied in mixture with corrosive subli­

mate, 26.

Nitric acid, for crab-grass eradication, 90.
Nursery (see under Turf).
Nut-grass as a weed, 254, 262.

Oiled sand greens, 109-111.
Olcott turf garden, South Manchester, Conn., 

account of, and illustration, 22-23.

One thing leads to another, 164.
Osterdamia japonica (Palm Beach grass), 95.

Palm Beach grass, 95.
Panicum sanguinale (see Crab-grass).
Paradichlorobenzine, for June-beetle extermina­

tion, 63.

Paris crcen, for mole-cricket extermination, 72, 

106/

Paspalum sanguinale (see Crab-grass).
Pasturing for fertilization, 255.
Pearlwort, eradication of, 69.
Peat (sec under Humus).
Pennywort, description of (illustrated), 220- 

222.

eradication of, 216, 220-222.
Perrywinkle, as a bank-holder, 245.
Philadelphia District Green Section, organiza­

tion of, 74.

purchasing committee’s good work, 195.
Phosphatic fertilizers, 201-202, 239 (see also un­

der Fertilizers).

Pigeon-grass, eradication of, 128.

Pinehurst, N. C. Producing turf on poor land 

at Pinehurst, 254-255.

Pine Valley Golf Club, solving the fairway turf 

problem at (illustrated), 98-103.

damage at Pine Valley from grubs of the 

southern green June-beetle, 252-254.
Pipe, size and kind of, and depth of laying, 68. 
sub-irrigated greens at the St. Louis Coun­

try Club (illustrated), 85-87.

Plantain, eradication of, 25, 129.
Poa annua (see Annual blue.grass).
Poa trivialis (see Rough-stalked bluegrass).
Poison-bait for grasshoppers, 166.
Polysulphide poison for earthworms, 82.
Ponds, removing alga from, 261.
Potash as a fertilizer, 142, 203, 239.
Potassium cyanide as ant exterminator, 118. 
white grub exterminator, 176, 232-234. 
turf stimulant, 234.

Preparation of green committee budgets, 243. 
Purchasing:

a district green section’s purchasing com­

mittee’s good work, 195.
preparation of budgets, 243.
purchasing for a green committee, 30-31. 
units of quantity in purchasing seeds, 21. 
turf grass seeds to buy and how to buy 

them, 14-17, 47, 180.

Putting-greens, aerating turf of, 160.

architecture of, 67, 240 (see also under 

Architecture).

California, making putting-greens on a 
southern California golf course, 107-111 
(see also under Grasses under Putting- 
greens).

care of, 187-189, 236.
constructing and cost of, at Columbia 

Country Club, 33-36.

at Inverness, 132-136.
at Eastward Ho, 208-209.

contouring, 67.
cottonseed-hull greens, 244.
draining, 96, 161, 188.
efficiency in golf course construction, 208- 

209.

fall treatment of, 159, 167, 192, 213, 236.
fertilizing, 161, 213, 236, 239, 254.
grasses for, Californian, 95, 107-111, 214.
northern, 14, 66, 168, 191, 213.
southern, 26, 94, 95, 107-111, 144, 214, 

215, 236, 239, 254.

green building in midwinter at Washing­

ton, D. C., 33-36.
mowing, 21, 168, 238.
redtop in, 26, 167, 192.
reseeding, 143, 159, 192, 243.
sand greens, converting to grass greens, 

237.

oiled sand greens, 109-111.
seeding, rate of, 65, 94, 95, 209, 243.
shady, treatment of, 192.
soil for, depth of and quality, 46, 66.
southern, summer treatment of, 144 (see 
also under Grasses under Putting- 
greens).

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southern green June-beetle treatment, 253. 
spring rolling, value of, 68.
weight of rollers, 191.

131.

234.

Putting Greens (Continued)

top-dressing, 26, 51-60, 66, 71, 94, 192, 236. 
weeding, lay, 18 <-189.
without grass, 244.

Quacks, 218.
Questionnaires, announcement of, 218.

Redtop, cheap grades of, 142.

fairway grass, 17, 60, 93, 120, 190.
price of, as compared witli its value, 167. 
putting-green grass, northern, 142, 143, 167, 

southern, 26, 107, 144, 214, 215, 236, 

168, 192.

239.

rate of seeding, 65, 143, 214, 237.
seed, description and illustration, 37-39. 

number of seed per pound, 18.

turf grass seeds to buy and how to buy 

them, 14-17.

Reminders. Constant reminders, 235.
Reseeding putting-greens, 143, 159, 192.
Remedying a muddy ditch hazard, 220.
Resolutions founding Green Section, 5.
Rhizoctonia solani (see Brown-patch disease). 
Rhode Island bent (see under Bent grasses). 
Riddles, gyratory, for screening top-dressings, 

251.

Rolling. Rolling the turf, 36.

Rosa wichuriana, as a bank-holder, 245.
Rough, burning of, 24.
grass for, 69, 263.
“rough” and “half-rough,” 240.

Rough-stalked bluegrass, for shady conditions, 

119, 245.

Rubble for drainage, 45.
Rye-grass, perennial, eradication of, 192.

putting-green grass for the south, 26, 94, 

214, 239.

seeds, number per pound, 18.

St. Augustine grass, 245.
St. Louis Country Club, club-house, view of, 2. 
Green Section meeting at, September, 1921, 

194.

sub-irrigated greens at (illustrated), 85-87. 
St. Louis District Green Section organized, 235. 
Salt in sea sand, 66.

for killing white clover, 238.
for killing Boa annua, 151.

Sand and water boxes for tees, arrangement 
and construction of (drawings and illustra­
tions), 246-251.

bunker sand, best kind of, 220.
greens (see under Putting-greens). 
putting-green uses for, 46, 66, 71, 94. 
salt in sea sand, 66.
sand-hill land, producing turf on, 254.
soil, sandy, treatment of, 101.

Screening devices for top-dressing (illus­

trated), 251.

Seeding (see under Putting-greens; Fairways; 

Rough; and various grass names).

Seeds (see also under Putting-greens; Fair­

ways; Rough).

number per pound, 18.
purchasing, 14-17, 21, 47, 119, 180, 243.
testing, 16, 38, 47, 119, 214.
turf grass seeds to buy and how to buy 

them, 14-17.

w'eed seeds, vitality of, in manure, 27, 120.

Seedsmen, names of, furnished, 47.

methods of, commended, 180.

Service bureau, 8, 10, 11.
Shade grasses, 119, 245.
Shaded putting-greens, treatment of, 192.
Shanahan, John, 226-228.
Sheep manure (see under Manure).
Shepherd’s-purse, eradication of, 128.
Signs to place on tees, 235.
Silver crab-grass (see Goose-grass).
Small clubs, financial problems of, 47.
Small salad. 50.
Sod and sodding:

composting, 54-60.
cutting instruments, descriptions and illus­

trations, 34-35, 132-136.

green building in midwinter at Washing­

ton, D. C., 33-36.
putting-greens, 161.
sodding at Inverness (illustrated), 132-136. 
Sodium arsenite in weed eradication, 126, 128- 

Sodium cyanide, beneficial effects of, on grass, 

daddy-longlegs exterminator, 262.
earthworm exterminator, 81.
southern green June-beetle exterminator, 

white grub exterminator, 176, 231-235.

Sodium fluoric!, for white grubs, 176.
Soils (see also under Acidity, Alkalinity, and 

253.

Toxicity).

acid, treatment of, 27.
analyses of, value of, 48.
bacterial inoculation of, 118.
classification of, 48.
clay, treatment of, 238.
depth and quality of, 46, 66.
describing, 69.
samples of, sending, 69.
sand}', treatment of, 101.
sterilizing, 119.
testing, 260.

Sorrel, eradicating, 119.
South, grasses for (see under Putting-greens 

and Fairways).

making putting-greens on a southern Cali­

fornia golf course, 107-111.

South German mixed bent (see under Bent 

grasses).

Species of grasses, 255.
Spiking turf, 152, 160.
Spraying machines, necessity of washing after 

use of, 144.

Spring work; at Inverness, 19; 24, 68.
Sprinkling (see Watering).
Stellaria graniinea (see Chickweed).
Sterlizing soil, 119.

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Stones, removing, 24, 208.
Street sweepings, composting, -54.
Sub-irrigated greens at the St. Louis Country 

Club (illustrated), 85-87.

kind of tile to use, 45, 96.

Subscription price of The Bulletin, 8, 122.
Sulphur, brown-patch treatment, 114. 
earthworm extermination, 69. 
fertilizer, 201.

Sulphuric acid for crab-grass eradication, 90.
Summer-grass (see Crab-grass).
Swamp soil, use of and testing, 2'60.
SyntTierisma humifusum (see Crab-yrass). 

sanyuinale (see Crab-yrass).

Tea leaves as fertilizer, 263.
Tankage, as fertilizer, 239.
Tees, architecture of, 264.

boxes for, arrangement and construction 
(illustrations and drawings), 246-251.

care of, 47, 117.
signs to place on, 235.

Tennis courts, construction of, seeding, fertiliz­

ing, 68.

Testing seeds for purity and germination, 16, 

38, 119, 214.

soil for toxicity, 260.

Texas bluegrass in southern turf, 254.
Tile, for drainage, 45, 85-87, 96.
Timothy, number of seeds of, per pound, 18.
Tobacco stems as fertilizer, 192.
Top-dressing, 26, 35, 51-60, 66, 71, 94, 192, 261, 

263.

screening devices for, 251.

Top soil, depth of, for putting-greens, 46. 
Toxicity of soil materials, 26, 28, 53, 190, 260. 
Tractors, Improvising a mowing machine (il­

lustrated), 152-154.

power mowers for fairways, 115-117. 
questionnaire on, 218.
weight of, limit of, 67.
Trampling, benefits of, 71.
Trees, removing, 208.

hickory-tree barkbeetle, 219.

Turf gardens, experimental plats for, 42, 95, 

138.

first turf garden in America (Olcott, 
South Manchester, Conn.), account of, 
with illustration, 22-23.

Moorestown Field Club creeping bent nurs­

ery, view of, 181.

turf nursery, 138.

Turfnut, 173.

Vegetative propagation (see under Bent 

grasses).

Velvet-bent (see under Bent grasses).
Vinca as a bank-holder, 245.

Water boxes for tees, arrangement and con­
struction of (illustrations and drawings), 
246-251.

Watering, fairways at Pine Valley, 99.

novel sprinkling device (Wawonowin Golf 

Club) (illustrated), 136-138.

sprinklers, makes of, 70, 166.
sub-irrigated greens at the St. Louis Coun­

try Club (illustrated), 85-87.

when to water, 167.

Weeds (see also under various weed-names): 

ammonium sulphate and, 31.
chemical weed-killers (illustrated), 128-131, 

146.

introducing with manure, 27.
lime and, 43, 142.
most important thing on a golf course, 187- 

189.

seeds, vitality of, in manure, 120.
some suggestions for fall treatment of put­

ting-greens, 159-161.

White arsenic for West Indian mole-cricket, 

106.

White clover, effect of lime on, 43.
eradicating, 25, 33, 118, 238.
seeds, number of, in pound, 18.

White grubs. Control of white grubs on golf 

links (illustrated), 174-177.

fighting the white grub at Merion (rate of 
application; cost of treatment; effect of 
fertilizers on the grubs), 231-235.

Wichurian rose as a bank-holder, 245.
Winter, green building in midwinter at Wash­

ington, D. C., 33-36.

manuring of putting-greens in winter, 236.
trampling, beneficial, 71.
winter-killing of putting-greens, 46, 143.
winter work at Columbia Country Club, 17, 

33-36, 45.

Wire-grass (see Goose-grass).

Yard-grass (see Goose-grass).
Yarrow as a golf turf grass, 142.

Zoysia tenuifolia (see Mascarene grass).

THE GREEN SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION

The Green Section of the United States Golf Association was organized in 
the winter of 1920-1921. Its objects are to promote the betterment of golf 
courses, with especial reference to the problems of growing turf, but not ex­
cluding anything that directly concerns golf clubs. 

The Green Section is conducted by the Green Committee of the United 
States Golf Association. One-half of the members of the Green Committee are 
appointed by the president of the United States Golf Association and the other 
half are elected by the delegates and permanent members of the Green Section. 

Th Green Committee publishes The Bulletin of the Green Section of the 
United States Golf Association, a monthly educational journal, containing no 
advertisement, but including anything of value or interest concerning golf 
courses that may have developed in the experience of the various clubs, besides 
technical, articles by scientific authorities. By this means there are made 
available to all both the things that are desirable to do and those which are 
to be avoided. 

The Green Committee also maintains a Service Bureau, which furnishes 
information to golf clubs that are members of the Green Section, on the pur- 
chasing of seeds, fertilizers, implements, etc., and on any questions or prob- 
lems which they may care from time to time to lay before the Committee with 
regard to the betterment of golf courses.

The delegates to the Green Section of the United States Golf Association 
meet once a year to consider the administration of its business affairs and elect 
Green Committee members and to discuss various problems that are of general 
interest. No one may be appointed as a delegate to the Green Section who 
has any direct or indirect financial interest in the sale of any article, material 
or service used in the upkeep of golf courses. 

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THE GREEN COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION
*C. V. Piper, Chairman,
Dr. R. A. Oakley, Vice Chairman, 
*E. J. Marshall, Vice Chairman,
W. A. Alexander, 
Wm. F. Brooks, 
C. B. Buxton, 
2k. H. Campbell, 
N. Stuart Campbell, 
Sterling E. Edmunds, 
Wm. C. Fownes, Jr., 
*Dr. Walter S. Hakban, 
Dr. Tiios. P. Hinman, 
2k. J. Hood, 
Frederic C. Hood, 
Norman Macbeth, 
W. P. Stewart, 
James L. Taylor, 
*Wynant D. Vanderpool,
W. R. Willett, 
*2kLAN D. Wilson, 
Frank L. Woodward,

Inverness Club, 
Old Elm Club, 
Minikahda Club, 
Dallas Country Club, 
Toronto Golf Club, 
Agawam Hunt Club. 
St. Louis Country Club, 
Oakmont Country Club, 
Columbia Country Club, 
Druid Hills Golf Club, 
Detroit Golf Club, 
The Country Club, 
Wilshire Country Club, 
2kudubon Golf Club, 
Ekwanok Country Club, 
Morris County Golf Club, 
Louisville Country Club, 
Pine Valley Golf Club, 
Denver Country Club,

Washington, D. C. 
Washington, D. C. 
Toledo, Ohio. 
Fort Sheridan, Ill. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
Dallas, Tex.
Toronto, Ont. 
Providence, R. I. 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Washington, D. C. 
Atlanta, Ga. 
Detroit, Mich. 
Brookline. Mass. 
Los Angeles, Calif. 
New Orleans. La. 
Manchester, Vt. 
Convent Station, N. J. 
Louisville, Ky. 
Clemonton. N. J. 
Denver, Colo.

* Executive Committee member.

PERMANENT MEMBERS 
LJY.iIson’ Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa 

h. H. Hillman, Washington, D. C.
W. H. Walton, Washington, D. C.
Lyman Carrier, Washington, D. C.

ddress all communications P. O. Box 313, Pennsylvania Avenue Station, Washington, D. C.