MIWS

[ L H W U K

F o r g e t t i n g a l l t h a t h a s h i n d e r e d or h a s
troubled during the twelve months that have
a l m o s t p a s s e d , let u s l o o k f o r w a r d w i t h confid e n c e to t h e t w e l v e m o n t h s t h a t a r e t o c o m e .
M a y t h e y c o n t a i n j u s t e n o u g h of s t r u g g l e to
m a k e u s p r o v e o u r s t r e n g t h , j u s t e n o u g h of
d i s a p p o i n t m e n t t o fix o u r r e s o l u t i o n s m o r e
firmly, a n d j u s t e n o u g h of t r o u b l e to s h o w u s
how staunch friendship can be. W h a t three
o t h e r t h i n g s c a n give s u c h zest t o l i f e ?
•—Anon.

DECEMBER
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This N E W S L E T T E R is published
monthly by the Greenkeepers Club of
New England, and sent f r e e to its members and their Green's Chairmen. Subscription price ten cents a copy, or a
dollar a year.
GUY C. WEST

Editor

Rhode Island C o u n t r y Club
W e s t B a r r i n g t o n , R. I.

GEORGE J. ROMMELL, JR.
Business Mgr.
54 E d d y St., W e s t Newton, Mass.

December, 1938

Vol. 10, No. 12

The ideas and opinions expressed in
the subject
matter
of this
NEWSLETTER
are not necessarily
those of
the Editor
or the members of the club
as a whole.

This is the time of year when most
greenkeepers in this p a r t of the country
can pause a bit and do a little selfinvestigation. In spite of the added
work of Winter sports of all kinds, the
problems of snow removal, temporary
greens, Winter work on equipment,
and all the rest, there is still plenty of
time to think back, to think out the
possible failures, to reason why, to use
the present to make the f u t u r e better.
There are presented a t this time of
year many opportunities f o r self betterment, at small cost to the individual.
Association meetings with their opportunities to hear speakers of note, to talk
"shop" with your fellows. Conferences
of various kinds, with their unique
chances to help. Short courses at various state colleges. Our own Greenkeepers school the latter part of the Winter.
Time is all it costs to read and re-read
old bulletins and magazines. Read over
methods and ideas as presented five or
ten years ago, and decide whether they
are right or wrong in the light of present day knowledge. We venture to say
that any greenkeeper who reads over
back issues of the N E W S L E T T E R will
find something that seems new, something that will help this coming season.
I t has been our custom f o r many
years to take down a few notes of lectures heard a t meetings or conferences.

Often these notes are merely thrown into the files with other reference m a t t e r
at the time, but these notes are still of
interest, and a subject f o r possible study
when time permits. Think over the following f r o m our files, as gathered f r o m
talks during the past few years.
"Success of greenkeeper depends on
other factors than growing grass."
"Have entire grasp of club's problems."
"Let's keep it a game."
"Let's take ourselves less seriously."
"Let the grass grow, instead of make
it grow."
"Consider all available knowledge bef o r e deciding the answer to a problem."
"Improve drainage."

These few suggestions may show how
old notes are still valuable.
There
seems little doubt that all of us can
use the time at our disposal for selfinvestigation, f o r study and f o r betterment.
A few years ago we had a calendar
on our desk; on this calendar was the
following quotation f r o m the sayings of
Bulwer Lytton, "Take in the ideas of
the day, drain off those of yesterday."
Since that time we have thought of this
quotation many times. How applicable
it is to many lines of thought and endeavor, but how much so to greenkeeping! Greenkeeping has become more involved yearly, and it seems imperative
f o r the successful greenkeeper
to
"drain off" the old ideas of yesterday
which have proven false, only retaining
the knowledge of them, and any parts
t h a t apply to the present or f u t u r e . He
should be ready and eager to "take i n "
and use the ideas of the day, and should
be prepared f o r what will come in the
future.

We venture to say t h a t all green
chairmen could also take stock of themselves this slack Season. Have all your
dealings with your greenkeeper during
the past year shown that spirit of cooperation which is so essential f o r the
well being of your club? Have you given
orders only to show that you are the
"boss", or do you let your greenkeeper
run along with mild supervision? Have

you attended any greenkeeper conferences or meetings during the past year,
so that you know j u s t what greenkeepers
are doing to help themselves and theref o r e their clubs?
Do you read the
N E W S L E T T E R , and have you written
us with any suggestions or ideas? We
are always glad to hear f r o m you. Perfect team work between chairman and
greenkeeper are necessary. We know
of clubs which have this team work; we
know of others which lack it.

THE GREENKEEPING
SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION

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We have received various inquiries
relative to the National Association of
Greenkeepers, so we believe that the
following items relative to this organization will be of interest to those of our
readers who do not belong to the
National association nor receive its
magazine. Most of the following items
are taken from The Greenkeepers Reporter, which has published six fine
issues during this year under the able
leadership of its Editor, A. L. Brandon.
For this past year the National Association has been known as the Greenkeeping Superintendents Association.
The annual convention will be held
this Winter on Feb. 7, 8, 9, 10 at Kansas City, Mo. The Equipment Show will
be held in the Municipal Auditorium,
and official headquarters will be at the
President Hotel.
The official title of
this meeting will be "The National Turf
Conference and Equipment Show". The
Educational Conference will take place
on the 8th, 9th and 10th, with M. E.
F a r n h a m as Chairman.
The last issue of the Reporter contained an interesting report of the hurricane by our more or less regular New
Jersey correspondent, Kent Bradley.
Kent seems to be devoting much of his
well known energy toward national
ideas, and we feel sure t h a t readers of
the Reporter read his "kibitzing" articles with interest!
Thru inadvertence the results of the
tournament held on October 31st at the
Belmont Spring C. C. were not given in
the last issue. This tournament was a
Scotch foursome event with greenkeepers and green chairmen as partners, %

combined
handicaps
being
allowed.
Winners w e r e :
H. Mosher and H. Hayes—
96-24-72.
P. Cassidy and A. Littlehale—
87-14-73.
In a handicap t o u r n a m e n t held f o r
those without partners, Joe Johnston
was awarded the prize with 103-26-77.
Demonstrations by the Rototiller were
held in the morning.

Fire on December 3rd caused an estimated $40,000 damage to the club
house of the Weston Golf Club, Weston,
Mass., the scene of several enjoyable
meetings of the club. Several thousand
dollars worth of trophies and furnishings were saved by neighbors and employees.

The marriage has recently been announced of Richard Finerty of Newton
and Ida Gagnon of Fall River.
Mr.
Finerty is well known to the greenkeeping trade as the N. E. Toro representative in Rhode Island and Southeastern
Mass., and Miss Gagnon is one of our
long time Fall River friends, so we feel
well qualified in wishing the happy
couple a long and merry life together!

Tom Mattus feels t h a t this year's
deer season was a success, as he secured
a fine plump 150 pound doe in the
Berkshires on December 6th!
Director Koon of the Waltham Field
Station has called our attention to a
fine book of grasses, called "Manual of
the Grasses of the United States" by"
A. S. Hitchcock, misc. publication No,
200, f o r sale by the Supt. of Documents,
Washington, D. C. f o r $1.75. Also to a
"Handbook of Experiments in A g r o n omy" which is Special Circular No. 53,,
f r o m the Ohio . Agr. Exp. Station a t
Woostcr, Ohio. >
Director Koon also has secured a copy
of a book f r o m England, called "The
Establishment and Care of Fine Turf
f o r Lawns and Sports Grounds", by
David Clouston. This book may be borrowed f r o m the Station by our members.

DECEMBER

MEETING

The December meeting was held a t
the Waltham Field Station on the 12th.
The speaker was Dr. Jacob S. Joffe of
Rutgers University. Dr. Joffe gave a
very interesting and instructive talk on
Soils. He said in p a r t :
There are many many soils. Soil is
a well organized body, consisting of well
developed parts, each with its own work
to perform. To anatomize the soil body,
the soil must be studied in its undist u r b e d condition. In a study of a soil
profile in virgin woods, there would be
a surface layer of leaves f r o m this year's
fall of leaves, dead vegetation whose
origin can be told. Below this there
would be another layer of dead leaves,
semi-decomposed, whose source can still
be recognized; still lower more organic
matter, origin obscure, called humus.
Below these layers there is a mineral
layer, the surface of which is impregnated with roots, dark on top,
lighter lower, open structure. (In this
soil profile study, we are talking of
loam, the ideal condition.) Below this
mineral layer there is another layer,
more compact, heavier in texture. The
line between this layer and the one
above is not level, it is a curved line.
It is within this soil body t h a t all
reactions, good or bad, take place.
The top layer, or " A horizon" may
contain as high as 2% iron and 7%
aluminum, the second layer or "B horizon" as high as 6.9% iron and 12%
aluminum, and the third layer or "C
horizon" as high as 3.4% iron and 9%
aluminum. These layers or better, horizons, are not parallel, and each may be
divided into minor horizons, such as
A-l, A-2, etc.
All the minerals in the lower horizons have been weathered in their earlier
history.
Decomposition is the breaking down
of the plant so t h a t the various elements come back to their mineral state.
In this decomposition, organic acids are
produced. Also when this decomposition is taking place near the top of the
A horizon, nitrogen and also sulphur
are produced, worked over by organisms, and produce nitric and sulphuric
acids. These acids are carried downward in soils by rains so that they contact the mineral layer.

The mineral part of the soil may be
97-98 c/r mineral matter. In a sandy soil
this may contain 90% silicon dioxide,
and the remainder will be combinations
of silicon and oxygen with iron, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, potassium,
etc.
The acids in A horizon have a positive H ion. As they go downward in
the soil and contact this mineral layer,
they break into combinations of silicon
and oxygen with these other elements,
leave the H active; this causes more
acidity.
In this process the calcium is taken
up more easily than the iron and aluminum, so that an acid soil has a much
larger percentage of these latter elements. Roots shun soils with these elements in quanity, so we must t r y to
produce a condition where the aluminum and iron are as low in the soil
body as possible, so t h a t feeding ground
is g r e a t e r ; roots will be close to the
surface on acid soils f o r this reason.
Organic m a t t e r becoming acid invites
unfriendly molds and f u n g i which produce toxic substances.
In applying lime to correct soil
acidity, it might be wise to apply acid
phosphate prior to the lime application.
Apply in Fall; we do plant wrong by
applying in Spring as it will not work
downward in soil during Summer.
Soil is a natural body differentiated
into horizons, each one of which has its
own n a t u r a l functions.
At the business meeting, the Nominating Committee reported a slate of
officers f o r the coming year, several
changes of constitution were voted, and
other matters of importance transacted.

SNOW

MOLD

Snow Mold is' a f u n g u s disease that
lies dormant on i h e soil. When conditions are favorable, this fungus, like
Brown Patch, becomes active, but unlike Brown Patch it becomes active at
zero temperatures and when the soil is
wet. Melting snow is the ideal condition
f o r the growth of this fungus, hence its
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Snow Mold developes a mass of pinkish gray mycelia which completely kills
all the grass t h a t it reaches. So completely does Snow Mold kill the grass
t h a t it is usually necessary to reseed,
or to entirely replace the affected t u r f .
The damage by this f u n g u s varies f r o m
year to year, and f r o m locality to locality, but it is a constant t h r e a t in all
districts where snow fall is regularly
experienced.
M e t h o d of

Control

Several years of exr rimentation in
the Chicago and Detroit areas, conducted under the supervision of the
United States Golf Association Green
Section, has proven that this f u n g u s
can be controlled by the immediate application of an inorganic mercurial a t
thè rate of three ounces per thousand
square feet of t u r f .
Greens should be carefully examined
a f t e r each thaw, and if any signs of
Snow Mold are evident, an immediate
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The experiments conducted in Detroit
and Chicago clearly indicated that Snow
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late fall, a f t e r the ground .had frozen,
but before the first heavy snow fall.
Three ounces of an inorganic mercurial
per thousand square feet of turf is sufficient to protect a green f o r an entire
winter, and many greenkeepers think
this a worthwhile insurance.
The experiments on Snow Mold control definitely settled the point t h a t
mulching the greens with leaves or
straw is not advisable. In fact, it was.
found t h a t the cleaner the greens werekept, the more likely was Snow Mold'
to be avoided. In some localities it is:
necessary to cover the greens with loose
branches to prevent the snow f r o m
packing too heavily on the greens, and
wherever this is necessary the preventive application should surely be applied.
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"Happiness is the echo of the pleasant words we speak to others."

SEASONAL

REMINDERS

(from Dec. 1936 — "Turf Culture" of
the U.S.G.A. Green Section)

it off the long list of jobs that must be
done during the rush period in spring
and it will serve also to provide better
playing conditions during the winter.
Raking

Too many golf club officials assume
that as soon as the golfing season is
over work on the golf course should
cease. This short-sighted policy accounts f o r many cases of hurried and
makeshift work during the rush season.
It usually means waste and inefficiency
as well as being unnecessarily u n f a i r to
the greenkeeper and his best workmen.
In the normal operations of most
golf courses it should be possible to
keep the greenkeeper well occupied during the winter months even on courses
where there is no play f o r several
weeks. On most of the better courses
the greenkeeper during the winter
months can also use to good advantage
the services of at least one helper.
Many serious interruptions and inconveniences next summer may be avoided
by a little judicious use of labor during
the winter months.
Overhauling

Equipment

Winter offers an excellent opportunity to thoroughly overhaul machinery and equipment. Any good piece of
machinery will last longer and give
more effective service if it is occasionally overhauled, greased and painted.
Old and worn equipment can often give
additional good service with proper
overhauling and replacement of worn or
broken parts.
Work

Shops

Any consideration of the repair of
equipment and some of the other jobs
naturally raises the question of proper
housing f o r these operations.
Altogether too many first-class golf courses
are still maintained without an adequate workshop and sheds f o r housing
equipment and materials used on the
course. This particuar season is a good
time to make an appraisal of adequate
building facilities in order that new
construction or repair work may be
started at once to provide these facilities
in time to be used to advantage during
the remainder of the winter.
Burning and Clearing

Rough

Burning over the rough and clearing
out some objectionable thickets are good
jobs f o r late fall and winter whenever
the weather will permit. If this type
of work can be done early, it will keep

Leaves

This is probably the m a j o r job in fall
and early winter on courses with plenty
of trees. The removal of leaves and
other litter froSi golf turf is usually a
costly procedure. A f e w machines have
been developed in recent years designed
to speed up this type of work and reduce the labor cost, but on most courses
the leaves are still removed by the use
of the hand rake. Until machines which
can do this work efficiently are in general use, the rake is all important. It
may be worth while to consider the type
of rake that is adapted to the purpose.
A wide rake has much to recommend it
f o r clearing leaves f r o m greens, tees
and f a i r w a y s — a t least double the width
of those commonly in use. An example
of such a rake is described and illustrated in The Bulletin of the United
States Golf Association Green Section,
Vol. 11, p. 224. Men who have used
these rakes have found them no more
difficult to handle than the ordinary size
and with them one can cover a much
larger area of turf in a given time.
Using

Leaves

for

Compost

The leaves removed f r o m various
parts of the golf course may be used to
good advantage f o r supplying organic
matter in compost. Leaf mold is well
recognized by plant growers as a desirable f o r m of humus material. The
cost of hauling the leaves is practically
the only expense involved as the leaves
are usually raked and piled, whether or
not they are utilized f o r the compost
pile. The unsightly areas in the rough
or out of bounds made by burning the
leaves in piles would be avoided, likewise the disadvantage of the weedy
growth which often develops in these
burned areas. The addition of chemical
or organic fertilizer materials as the
leaf humus pile is made has been found
to hasten the decomposition materially.
One of the formulae f o r hastening
decomposition in straw or leaf stacks
consists of approximately 70 pounds of
sulphate of ammonia, 25 pounds of
superphosphate, and 55 pounds of finely
ground limestone to each ton of material. The leaves should be spread in
layers of about 6 inches. Each layer
should be treated with the preceding
fertilizers and watered individually as
the pile progresses.

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This work will require some labor but
it will be found to be well worth while
when the pile is ready f o r use on putting
greens. Leaves may also be spread on
a soil bed and worked into the soil by
thorough discing. Fertilizers spread on
the leaves will hasten their decomposition on the soil bed as in the case of
the pile.
Screening Compost

The best time to screen compost is
when it is relatively dry and friable.
This condition is usually reached in the
late summer, when it cannot be screened
due to the rush of other work. Too
many times the greenkeeping force is
diverted f r o m important work during the
growing season to screen some compost.
This is particularly annoying to the
greenkeeper in early spring when comDost may be wet and sogg'y and when
he is pushed with other jobs. Some pi'Ovision f o r shelter f o r an adequate supply
of dry and screened compost ought to
be made. It is a wise policy to screen
enough soil f o r next year's use during
the fall and winter.
Fill Surplus Traps

For many years the Green Section
has advocated the leveling and sodding
of the large number of useless and expensive traps and hazards that clutter
up the fairways of many courses. Winter
offers many opportunities to do much
of the hauling of materials needed f o r
such changes.

Ways

Another important item of work that
can as well be attended to during the
late fall and winter season is the m a t t e r
of drainage ditches and tile lines.
Choked ditches and stopped lines of tile
are unable to aid in the early opening
of the golf course in the spring and may
result in more than an ordinary amount
of winter injury. The outlets of all the
lines should be insnected and all catch
basins cleaned to allow capacity flow.
Install

Tile

Drains

A g r e a t many places on

the

Cutting and Trimming

golf

Trees

The best time to cut down trees or
trim off branches is during periods of
good weather during the winter months.
In doing work of this kind it is well to
keep in mind the opening of passage
ways which will admit f r e e r circulation
of air on some of the greens and tees
that are in bad air pockets. The pruning of shrubbery during the winter
months will often add materially to t h e
general appearance of the clubhouse
grounds.
It should be remembered,
however, that many of the
flowering
shrubs, particularly those t h a t bloom
early in the season, should not be
trimmed during the winter. In such
esses the pruning is best delayed until
a f t e r the shrubs have bloomed next
spring.
Moving

Remove Rocks and Stumps

A few winter days spent in removing outcropping rocks f r o m fairways
may save money or mower repairs next
summer, in addition to making playing
conditions more pleasant. Large rocks
and stumps in the rough may also be
removed to advantage. Dynamite will
greatly facilitate the work and can be
used to advantage when there is little
or no play to interefere with blasting
operations.
Ciean Drainage

course remain wet long enough to interfere with spring play. Many of these
locations would require a relatively
small amount of tile and labor. Diseases
f r e q u e n t l y appear
in such
poorly
drained parts and the turf often suffers
f r o m the water-logged conditions. Seepage areas, f o r example, may i n t e r f e r e
with an entire fairway and are usually
of the sort that can be rather cheaply
remedied by tiling on the uphill side.
Pockets can sometimes be improved by
installing French drains (pits filled with
sand or gravel). This work may well
occupy a number of men f o r several
weeks during the months of little play.

Trees

Fall and winter are good times to
transplant trees.
This work can be
handled by any greenkeeping crew if
it is done at the right time. Some detailed information on the subject appears in the Bulletin of the United
States Golf Association Green Section,
Vol. 10, p. 136. The tree is prepared
f o r transplanting if time permits by
pruning the roots dui-ing one or two
seasons, gradually cutting around the
ball and watering and fertilizing to induce growth of new roots close to the
trunk. Medium to large-sized trees are
conveniently moved with the ball of
earth frozen. Approximately 12 inches
of root ball should be secured f o r each
inch of the trunk diameter. If trenching is begun now the f r o s t will penet r a t e deeply, and if desirable to wait
until the soil freezes the place f o r the
trench may be covered with straw or
manure to save labor in digging. In the
same way the hole f o r the tree on the
new site can be dug now or covered
to prevent deep freezing of the soil.

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N e w Y e a r of H a p p i n e s s , H e a l t h
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West.

G e o r g e J . R o m m e l l , Jr.

OFFICERS'
President
Secretary
Treasurer
Chairman
Chairman
Chairman
Chairman

Bridges

During slack time a t this season there
may be an opportunity to utilize laborto good advantage in the repair of the
old bridges and shelters and possibly t o
install new structures wherever needed.
Plans f o r shelters have appeared in the
Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section and reference
may be made to the volumes and pages
as follows: Vol. 3, p. 136;
Vol. 13,
p. 52.
Inside Painting

The EDITOR and B U S I N E S S

South

In the southern States where the
summer grasses are turned brown during the cold periods, it has been found
t h a t applications of fertilizer will encourage sufficient growth of grass during the intervening warmer periods to
improve the playing conditions greatly.
Sulphate of ammonia is the most effective fertilizer f o r this purpose. I t
should be applied during the cold period
so t h a t it may be available f o r the use
of the grass as soon as the cold wave
has passed. This method during midwinter is effective only in the most
southern portion of the Bermuda grass
range.

Jobs

When weather is unseasonable f o r
outside work there may be some inside
painting of the implements, out-ofbounds and other markers, barn, and
the clubhouse itself. Probably nothing
has the effect of promoting a well-kept
appearance as much as a new coat of
paint. Winter is one of the best times
f o r such work.
Reading

The winter months offer many opportunities f o r the greenkeeper to do somereading which will provide him with information which may prove of considerable value to him next season. This
is a good time of the year to get together a small greenkeeper's library as
part of the regular course equipment.

DIRECTORY

R. A. Mitchell, Kernwood C. C„ Salem,
Philip Cassidy, 45 Grosvenor Rd., Needham,
F r a n k Wilson, Charles River C. C., Newton Centre,
Enter. Comm
Sam S. Mitchell, Ponkapoag G. C„ Canton,
Golf Comm
Lloyd G. Stott, Meadow Brook G. C., Reading,
W e l f a r e Comm.
Paul Wanberg, 8 Curtis St.. Waltham,
Employment Comm
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