Some Useful

Don'ts

—Don't rush your shots.
—Don't try to drive 300 yards when you can only drive 200.
— D o n ' t worry if your opponent is holing them—it can't last
forever.
—Don't worry if you are putting well but not holing them—
they will soon drop in.
— D o n ' t worry about what others are doing—get on with your
own score.
—Above ali, don't tighten grip when nervous.
("Golf in Australia")

MAY

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S T A N D A R D
COURSE EQUIPMENT
" T h e

G u a r a n t e e d

L i n e "

' Poles—
"Quality" seamless steel, also hi-grade ash and wood.

'Putting Cups—
"One-Piece" cast iron and aluminum patterns.

Hole Cutters—
"Cuts-True" type with scalloped, saw-tooth or
cutting edge.
Ball

plain

W a s h e r —

"Six Ball" rotary type—also Rack, Retriever and "BallBrite" Cleaner.
' M a r k e r s —

All types for Green, Fairway and Tee.
*

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When writing, mention

NEWSLETTER.

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 t e n cents a copy, or a
dollar a year.
GUY C. W E S T

Editor

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

GEORGE J. ROMMELL, JR.
Business Mgr.
28 G r a n v i l l e

May, 1938

St., D o r c h e s t e r ,

Mass.

Vol. 10, No. 5

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.

F O R E S T R Y AS IT S H O U L D B E
P R A C T I C E D ON T H E G O L F
COURSE

be parks and beautifully landscaped
homes, but this will become monotonous
as they must of necessity be largely
formal, and the great hue and cry will
be to get somewhere, where a fellow
will see trees and n a t u r e in the raw,
so to speak. Herein lies the opportunity
of every golf course.
A golf course therefore should make
a definite landscape plan that should extend over many years, and that will
wind up with an objective which was
visualized before the plan ever started.
The

Clubhouse

Clubhouse plantings should be more
or less formal. The entrance of the
clubhouse should be formal. The view
f r o m the dining room should have a
vista. The service portion should be
hidden.
It is entirely possible to supply the
clubhouse with flowers f o r six to eight
months, grown in flower beds near or
in the clubhouse area. These can be
grown f r o m Narcissus in the spring to
Chrysanthemums in the fall.
Too many trees near a clubhouse,
with no small bush or flowering plants
are monotonous.
Fairway Plantings

by George J. Rommell, Jr.
(A Recreation Conference Paper)
Forestry as it should be practiced on
the golf course, is synonymous with
landscaping the golf course.
By f a r the overwhelming m a j o r i t y of
golfers are those who work in offices or
other places of confinement, where they
see nothing, but 4 straight walls all during their working day. Whether consciously or unconsciously these people
are going out to play golf to get away
f r o m all this. They may say they go
out to play golf and f o r no other reason. This may be true, but most everyone has taken up golf, to get out in
the open and to commune with nature.
To still f u r t h e r show the importance
of proper landscaping or f o r e s t r y on the
golf course; and I do not believe I am
going too f a r out on a limb in saying
this; in the not too distant f u t u r e golf
courses will be called on to make the
last stand against the encroachment of
civilization on nature, near the large
cities. This condition is being aggravated by the steady push of city dwellers to the suburbs and outlying towns,
where the n a t u r a l scenery is being destroyed, and slowly an artificial landscape is made. To be sure there will

Now fairway and rough plantings of
trees should never be formal, or have
a f o r m a l appearance.
There should
never be straight lines of trees to outline these fairways.
There should never be too many of
one type of tree because of the monotony of the picture it produces. Particularly is this true with evergreens except the more or less informal growing
types.
Straight lines of evergreens give a
stonewall effect which when the eye hits
them stops dead, and you can see no
f u r t h e r . However, if you are making
an attempt to blot out an undesirable
view, there is no better way to do it
than with a line of evergreens.
As f a r as possible the landscape picture on the golf course should give the
feeling of openness and freedom, yet
should blot out undesirable views and
parallel fairways.
Trees should be planted so as to give
the element of surprise, as f o r example
to walk out upon a tee and suddenly
face a hill or valley. Or to come across
little groups of naturalized
flowers;
such as:
Narcissus, Lady Slippers,
Naturalized Tulips, Water Lillies growing in a pond or a rock garden, growing naturally on a natural piece of rock
in the woods near the fairway.

Monotonous horizontal lines may be
avoided by drawing 1 vertical lines f r o m
an already established piece of woodland to the proposed planting.
Plant only types and kinds of trees
that are growing naturally in that area.
Evergreens should not be planted too
near fairways, as the low branching
characteristic of the evergreen, make it
almost impossible f o r the golfer to get
out f r o m under them, and this also is
worth considering, the low branching
characteristic of this tree, makes it the
prey f o r the cigarette tossed into the
tall grass by the careless golfer. This
also applies to roadside planting of
evergreens.
Evergreens are desirable f r o m a
maintenance angle, as they will greatly
reduce the leaf problem. Nevertheless,
do not let this influence you to go to
the extreme of planting so many t h a t
they make a monotonous picture on the
course. Properly placed with deciduous
trees, they have a very important p a r t
to play in the landscape.
Certain types of oaks, whose leaves
remain on the trees through the winter,
should be discouraged as much as possible, as they create a leaf problem in
both the fall and spring, and therefore
add to the maintenance costs. Also the
poison oak which is often as poisonous,
as poison ivy to some people.
DISEASES

AND INSECTS
TREES

OF

It might be well to dwell f o r a f e w
moments on the insects and diseases
which are terrorizing the northeastern
p a r t of our country at the present and
thus be able to recognize them if they
should arrive in our vicinity.
Elm Leaf

Beetle

Hundreds of Elms die as a result of
continuous defoliation and by subsequent attack by bark beetles.
Adult beetle lives over winter in
rubbish. When buds begin to swell,
beetles begin to emerge, mate and feed
on leaflets.
Control—Spray trees with arsenate
of lead just a f t e r buds burst and again
two weeks later.
Gypsy

Moth

Imported f r o m Europe in 1869.
Female white with few black markings. Abdomen yellowish brown and so
heavy she is unable to fly. Male dark
brown with black wavy lines on wings.
Eggs found in early July, usually on or
close to tree on which it feeds. The
caterpillars hatch the following spring.

A double row of blue and red spots
distinguishes them f r o m other larvae.
The larvae feed on many trees, pref e r r i n g hardwoods.
Control—Paint egg masses with creosote. Spray when larvae hatch with
arsenate of lead. Imported parasites
are helping to control this insect.
B r o w n Tail Moth

Moths pure white with abdomen tip
covered with brown hairs. Clusters of
2 to 3 hundred eggs are laid July on
underside of leaves. They hatch in the
middle of August, and larvae start feeding. The larvae live in a winter nest
of terminal twigs and leaves bound with
silk. In spring larvae come out and eat
bud scales and leaflets.
Caterpillars
have barbed reddish brown hairs, on all
tubercles. These hairs are poisonous.
Maple, elm and oak suffer most injury.
Control—Cut webs f r o m trees in
winter and destroy.
In spring spray
with arsenate of lead.
American

Tent

¿CN

Caterpillar

Control—Destroy nests. An ideal and
inexpensive way to destroy them is to
put burlap soaked in gasoline on the
end of a long pole and ignite the gasoline soaked burlap, and burn off nests
which are always easily discernible.
DISEASES
White Pine Blister Rust

Caused by parasitic f u n g u s within
pine bark girdling the t r u n k and killing
the tree. It must have two hosts in
order to complete its life cycle. Curr a n t and gooseberry bushes and pines.
Control—Pull up and destroy all curr a n t and gooseberry bushes within 900
f e e t of pines.
Any pine having five needles in a
cluster is subject to attack.
D u t c h Elm Disease or
of E l m s

Graphium

Federal government recently appropriated one-half million dollars to fight
this fungus.
Discovered in the Netherlands 15
years ago. In ten years it has killed
trees in 12 Europeon countries. Nine
infected elms Were found in Ohio in
1930 and 1931. A serious outbreak {in
N. Y. and N. J. in 1933. During summer of 1934, 7000 infested trees were
reported around N. Y. City. Connecticut 55 cases.
It attacks the circulatory system.
Sometimes kills within f e w weeks, generally over a period of years. Young

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Don't underestimate the savageness of brown patch. I t strikes
swiftly, killingly. The time to paralyze its power is before it gets
under way — with regular, effective applications of Special
SEMESAN or the other tried and proved Du Bay fungicides
Regular SEMESAN or Nu-Green!
Special SEMESAN gives liberal and exact turf coverage —
one pound treating 6,000 square feet of turf for as little as §1.29.
Fewer applications are needed. That's why it offers you such
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Easily applied in water solution or dry with compost. Used in
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Regular Semesan, the original brown patch fungicide,
and Nu-Green, the preventive which also hastens recovery of infected turf, are also available to all greenkeepers who prefer them. Regular Semesan: 5 lbs.,
$9.90; 25 lbs., $45.50; 100 lbs., $180.00; 300 lbs..
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and old, strong and weak, are susceptible. Sprays do not control the disease. Spores of graphium are carried
into tree by Elm Bark Beetles.
The beetles are found infesting imported logs, but the larger type beetle
has never been found in the field. They
are one-tenth to one-eighth inch long
and have glossy reddish black wing
covers. The grub is a crescent shaped,
white, legless creature slightly larger
than the beetle. Both adults and larvae
live and feed on elms breeding and
spending the winter under the bark in
weak or dying trees or parts of trees.
Get the Circular "Dutch Elm Disease
in Connecticut". No. 106, Conn. Agr.
Exp. Station.
Look f o r leaves t h a t t u r n a dull green
and then yellow.
Wilting symptons

usually appear first toward the crown
of the tree.
Cross sections of twigs
and limbs show brown specks in the
outer ring of the specimen. Other diseases produce symptons closely resembling. At present the disease can
be confirmed by laboratory culture only.
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Work

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You may ask, how can we afford to
do all this work? I offer a slight ray of
hope in the way "The Wellesley C. C."
has worked out a solution.
The members are doing this work
themselves.
Let me read a report which was recently made by the f o r e s t r y committee
of this club.
The Forestry Committee, during the
last 17 years has gone over every acre

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Since

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of our holdings about 75 in all, taking
out all dead pines and at the first of
our operations many dead Chestnut
trees killed by the blight.
Burnt all underbrush as we went
along leaving no cleaning up for the
greenkeeper. We have salvaged cord
wood to the value of $2000 and have
given the club about $8500 in labor.
We have had an average of eight and
once we had 25 turn out with no accident. We have worked every week end
rain or shine from Dec. 1 to Mar. 1.
During the war period we heated the
clubhouse with the wood we cut for
long periods.
Two members,
Mr.
Charles M. Sellman and Robert W.
Puffer, chairman, have been members
of the committee without interruption.
Mr. Sides, the club president, has been
an active member for 12 years.

Phooey, you will say, wait until the
CIO or AFL gets a f t e r you for putting
men out of work. Let me say that with
the exception of a very few courses,
nothing is being done about forestry.
Herein lies the opportunity for a wide
awake greenkeeper to direct and plan
this work, and to get the members interested in the idea. For once the members of a club get started they will be
enthusiastic to the point of overworking. Guard against this possibility as
many people get sick from overwork—
and this can be avoided by limiting the
time for work.
To get the members started on this
work a dynamic spark plug must go to
work on them. Perhaps a case of beer
etc. or a lunch put up by the wives
might get it going.

Red Pine was planted around a gravel
pit. The soil was poor, but the trees
have done nobly.
The White Pine were planted on a
light soil with a yellow loam bottom and
have all done well.
The White Spruce were planted where
there was a natural damp soil.

"The first rule Qf successful organizing is to focus and restrict responsibility.
"The second is to follow up instructions.
"The third is to check
results."

closely

on

T h e J u n e m e e t i n g will b e h e l d o n t h e
6 t h a t t h e F r a m i n g h a m Golf
Club,
Framingham,
Mass.
Lunch
will
be
(served a t n o o n , f o l l o w e d b y a n e i g h t e e n
hole m e d a l h a n d i c a p t o u r n a m e n t . Also,
k e e p in m i n d t h e J o h n S h a n a h a n M e m o r i a l G r e e n k e e p e r - P r o T o u r n a m e n t in
July, d a t e to be a n n o u n c e d later.

The
Ninth
Annual
Greenkeepers'
F i e l d - D a y will b e h e l d a t t h e
Rhode
Island S t a t e College on M a y 23rd. A
visit t o t h e e x p e r i m e n t p l a t s , l u n c h , a
speaking program, exhibits and demonstrations make up an interesting prog r a m which you s h o u l d n ' t miss. W e ' l l
see you t h e r e !

Our old friend and fellow member,
Joe Oldfield, was married on May 7th
to Miss Mary J a n e Hines of Boston.
Best of luck, J o e !
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mitchell
of the Walpole Golf Club on April
28rd, a boy, Richard. Another f u t u r e
greenkeeper in the Mitchell clan!
The May meeting was held at the
Weston Golf Club, Weston, Mass. on
the 2nd. Winners in the golf tournament were:
P. Wanberg—95-66.
S. Hannon—100-71.
J. Counsell—89-72.
N. Bruno—87-74.
H. Mosher—99-75.
In talking with Harold Mosher recently we gathered the following of
interest about Riverside G C. Two tees
planted to straight yarrow last year
have given very good results. Riverside
is to complete in the near f u t u r e the
watering system on the second nine.
Results on the first nine were so satisf a c t o r y t h a t there was no question
about completing the work. Universal
pipe with Buckner valves and sprinklers are to be used.
The M. D. C. have recently taken
over the Greenwich G. C., on the site
of the new Quabbin Reservoir, and
Riverside and Ponkapoag are each
bringing down some eight to ten
thousand square f e e t of sod f r o m this
course, to use mainly on tees.

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W H A T T I M E O F T H E D A Y IS B E S T
FOR MOWING PUTTING GREEN
GRASSES

Student paper read at 1938
Recreational conference
Martin C. Higgins, Pro-Greenkeeper
Pall River (Mass.) Country Club
Before determining the time of day
best suited f o r the mowing of putting
greens, a f e w f u n d a m e n t a l facts muse
be considered.
All the food m a n u f a c t u r e d in a plant
by photosynthesis is synthesized in the
green portions of the plant. (Photosynthesis means simply the chemical
combination of water with carbondioxide within the plant, in the presence
of light and chlorophyl, to produce
carbohydrates of food.) Chlorophyl is
the green pigment which imparts to
plants their green color. It is only
n a t u r a l to assume that any i n j u r y to
the green p a r t of the plant, such as
cutting away green tissue, will be detrimental to the process of food manuf a c t u r e . Needless to say, photosynthesis
is the most important physiological process on earth. Without it, life would
soon cease to exist. Coming a bit closer
to the subject, we shall discuss mowing
a f t e r sunset and will discuss advantages
and disadvantages of each together with
the other factors to be considered.
Nature determines the size and shape
of the leaf, and if some unnatural force,
such as clipping, cuts this necessary leaf
surface in half, then the plant's source
of food supply and m a n u f a c t u r e is
limited to one half of its original capacity. The m a n u f a c t u r e of food is dependent upon the surface area of the
leaf, and upon the amount of this area
which is exposed to the sunlight to
activate the process of photosynthesis.
The m a n u f a c t u r e of food in a grass
plant cannot occur a f t e r sunset, because of the necessity f o r light.
A plant loses considerable water,
mineral food and chlorophyl f r o m an
open wound, because the osmotic pressure f r o m the roots accentuates transpiration through the new and unnatural
opening. This excessive transpiration
automatically increases evaporation. All
these conditions coupled with
dry
weather and intense sunlight will cause
a depletion of soil moisture, which, in
turn, will cause wilting.
Increased activity in photosynthesis
causes a greater production of food. It
is reasonable to believe that n a t u r e can

and would accommodate this demand
f o r additional food storage space by an
increase in root growth. Cultural practices t h a t promote a more intensive root
growth will allow the plant to draw on
larger volumes of soil f o r nutrients and
moisture, and consequently resist more
unfavorable weather conditions than
would otherwise be possible. Soil nutrients assure the production of sugars
and starches in the leaves which, in
turn, take part in the formation of the
internal chemical energies t h a t account
f o r the entire plant growth.
Leaf and root growth should be relative or balanced in order to resist all
unfavorable conditions to a growing
grass plant. This is accomplished only
by keeping all of the working parts of
the plant in operation.
Past experiments also show that, in
general, root growth will not respond
to applications of fertilizers if photosynthesis is hindered by close clipping
in the sunlight. Such being the case,
your fertilizer applications will be
much more effective if mowing takes
place a f t e r sunset.
It is a known f a c t that grass growth
is most abundant in the evening. In
consideration of this fact, it would be
wise to capitalize this abundance of
plant growth. With the added strength
f r o m growth, a plant becomes much
more resistant to drought, f u n g u s disease, temperature, evaporation, and
competition of its neighboring plants
such as clover, dandelion, crab grass,
knotweed, and plantain. These plants,
by their prostrate habit of growth can
escape the severe i n j u r y of cutting.
Other facts and approximate statistics which have been results of experiments and which should be kept in mind
because of their bearing on the subject at hand a r e :
That the stomata in Bluegrass leaves
are 78% open at 12:00 noon, 9 6 %
open at 6:00 A. M.; 58% open at 6
P. M.; the stomata of the Red-Top are
15% open at 6 P. M.; the Red Fescue
are 72 % ^>pen at 6 A. M. The m a j o r i t y
are closed at 11 A. M. and 88% open
at 6 P. M.
Experimental statistics show that uncut putting greeYi grasses double their
degree of growth every second day,
varying f r o m 1-4 inch on the odd days
and 1 1-4 inches to 1 3-4 inches on the
even days
Bleeding of leaves f r o m cutting
necessitates 3 to 5 hours of sunlight
before healing.

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HARDY—ACCLIMATED
RHODE

ISLAND

By E. Porter Felt
Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories
Stamford, Conn.

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seecl of e q u a l q u a l i t y c a n b e o f f e r e d .
NATURE
HAS WRITTEN A
PRES C R I P T I O N for your course.
Right
h e r e in s o u t h e r n N e w E n g l a n d is t h e
n a t u r a l h o m e of t h e e n t i r e f a m i l y of
the Bent grasses, the principal member
of w h i c h , n a m e l y R . I. B e n t , d e r i v e d
its n a m e f r o m this, the smallest s t a t e
in t h e u n i o n .
You c a n grow N A T U R E ' S O W N I N S U R A N C E into your turf
by
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Infrequent mowing promotes a coarse
grass, higher tillering of new leaf blades
and more shade f o r root protection.
And, finally, regardless of our cultural practices and conditions, we
should always remember that a perpetual vegetative reproduction and a
lack of seed reproduction caused by
f r e q u e n t close cutting, will eventually
develop a degeneration of all putting
green grasses.
In conclusion, it will be noted that I
have not given any consideration or explanations, regarding Golf Playing Conditions. I feel that this is an important
problem in itself, and should be discussed only a f t e r one has reached a
decision as to what is the best time for
mowing putting green grasses.
From
the foregoing, I believe that the best
time to mow is between 12 o'clock at
midnight and 2 o'clock in the morning,
or that part of the day when the manufacturing of food is at a standstill and
the accumulated product has been completely translocated to the roots.
Realizing that this is quite impossible
because of that ever important factor,
namely LIGHT, my second choice would
be to start mowing putting greens at an
hour that would enable me to do a caref u l and thorough job just before dark.

Keep fire away f r o m trees in the
general spring clean-up.
There are possibilities of serious
damage by fire to trees and shrubs
when burning debris. A leafless tree appears lifeless to the casual observer and
yet beneath the bark are delicate living cells which transmit the sap f r o m
root to top and the vital fluids from the
leaves to the roots. Circulation in both
directions is necessary to the life of the
tree.
Recently there came to hand some
branches of red maple showing peculiar
scars on one side. They were irregular,
swollen, reddish brown masses of scar
tissue three to eight inches long and
over half an inch wide. The general
appearance was a little suggestive of
tree hopper or tree cricket injury due
to a series of egg punctures. A closer
examination showed there were no egg
punctures in the wood and that the
swollen scar tissue had overgrown a
dead area originally about one-fourth
of an inch wide. The growth rings date
the injury back three or possibly f o u r
years.
It is quite possible that the fire causing the damage described above occurred during the dormant period and
that there was no marked charring of
the outer bark. All that is necessary is
sufficient heat to kill the cambium." It
is probable that no one suspected
trouble until the bark cracked and
loosened from the wood.
Few realize the possibilities of fire
injury to small branches. It is much
hotter above than on the side of a fire.
The danger of injury to overhanging
branches is greater when there is little
or no air stirring than if there is a
breeze. The only safe way is to r e f r a i n
f r o m building even small fires under
trees where air currents will carry the
heat toward the branches. It is surprising how many build fires under
trees or allow fires to run over weedy
areas with small trees standing here and
there.
Occasionally small piles of
leaves are burned close to the trunk of
a nice lawn tree.
The only safe procedure is to keep
fires, even small ones, at some distance
from trees.

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Of
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newest m e c h a n i c a l i m p r o v e m e n t s in the
1938
Pennsylvania line have been tested under actual
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greatest mower value. Saves 2 0 % in time, labor and fuel
costs. T h e Giant FIVE-gang cuts a swath within two feet
as w i d e as a gang of SEVEN 30-inch units.

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A burl is usually an irregular, f r e quently more or less globular growth
developing upon the trunk or a branch
of a tree.
A remarkable burl was found recently on a soft maple branch with a
diameter four and one-half inches. It
was at the base of two nearly equal
branches, the larger with a diameter of
about three and one-half inches and the
smaller three inches. The burl developed from an area of approximately
three-quarters of the circumference of
the branch below the fork. The abnormal enlargement has a diameter of
about fourteen inches and a length
along the limb of approximately twelve
inches. The external surface is covered
with rough bark coarsely divided into
irregular areas quite different from the
surface of the normal portion of the
branch. Within it is a mass of twisting
fibers.
Many burls start with the development of adventitious buds and continue
enlarging year a f t e r year, in some cases
attaining much greater size than the one
described above. This is particularly
likely to occur on white oak. It is stated
that burls of the western redwood and
of some other trees if provided with
heat and moisture will produce a cutting-like growth in a few days. Knotty
or burl-like growths, especially on
hickory may be due to bacteria or fungi.
Some may be due to the bacterial infection known as crown gall. Hickories
and black walnut are sometimes badly
affected, the larger limbs having an irregular series of gnarly swellings.
There are burls on spruce and fir which
have been definitely associated with
plant diseases. Once started, the abnormal development of the tissue continues and it seems possible that the
interruption in the normal circulation
may be an important factor in the later
growth of these unusual masses of
tissue.
Burls may be picturesque. They are
rarely injurious. If they are objectionable prune off the affected parts if it
can be done without disfiguring the tree
markedly.

OFFICERS' DIRECTORY

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R. A. Mitchell, Kernwood C. C., Salem,
. Philip Cassidy, Greendale Ave., Needham,
Frank 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,
Welfare Comm
Paul Wanberg, 8 Curtis St., Waltham,
Employment Comm
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NEWSLETTER officers, see page two.

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Does a Beautiful Job of Cutting With Half the
Energy Required in Pushing a Hand Mower

The Toro Hand Putting Green Mower with a fourteen
year reputation of fine service on several thousand Golf
Courses throughout the world, is now equipped with a 1-2
H. P. motor to drive the reel. The complete unit, weighing
only 90 pounds, does a beautiful job of cutting and is so light
that it is easily handled at a definite saving in time and
energy.
The motor is equipped with an automatic governor which
drives the reel at a uniform speed regardless of how fast or
slow the operator walks. Uniformly high reel speed eliminates any trace of corrugated or choppy cutting.
Telephone us for prompt service.

New England Toro Co.
DISTRIBUTORS FOR N E W ENGLAND
• • :i;121 Washington 'St.,West Newton . — /• WESt New. 1658'

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M o w e r s
give you greater cutting economies
•From a 4-inch cut in the rough to
11/32 of an inch f o r smoother fairways
is simply a matter of a few moments.
Just one of the time-saving economies
every Worthington cutting unit gives
you. Then, too, you can quickly convert the 7-gang mower with its 16-foot
cutting swath to various combinations
of 5, 3 and 1 units, or reduce the width
of the 7-gang to the width of a triple
f o r roadway travel, crossing bridges or
mowing in confined areas. From 1914,
every Worthington cutting unit ever
built fits any Worthington f r a m e ever
built.
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require greasing only twice a year and
at only one point. Accurately cut gears
and dust and grease-proof housings assure long, smooth operating life by eliminating unnecessary friction and wear.
Demountable rims are another f e a t u r e
found only in Worthington cutting units
which represent substantial money-savings when replacements are necessary.
Attached to the sturdy, economical
Worthington Tractor, these gang mowers give you a better golf course a t
tremendous savings in money, manpower and time. In every State of the
Union and in 30 foreign countries
Worthington Gang Mowers are being
used to cut cutting costs.
economically.

WORTHINGTON MOWER COMPANY
Stroudsburg, Pa., Dept. N L / M Y
P l e a s e s e n d c a t a l o g on y o u r e q u i p m e n t
at no obligation.
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Distributor
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Telephone: Trowbridge 7491

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