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Price
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Cup Setter
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Aluminum Signs and Markers
Will not rust, discolor, corrode or tarnish. A sign f o r every purpose.
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Price, Parking Signs, any wording
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Price, Entrance Signs, any wording
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Price, Rule Signs, any wording
3.50
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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 ten 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.
54 E d d y

St., W e s t N e w t o n ,

April, 1939

Mass.

Vol. 11, No. 4

Contributing

Editors

Homer Darling
R. A. Mitchell
Howard F a r r a n t
Charles Parker
F r a n k Wilson
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.
SERVICE

SECTION

DINNER

The annual dinner meeting of the
Service Section Committee of the
Massachusetts Golf Association and the
Greenkeepers Club of New England was
held at the Brae Burn C. C., West
Newton, Mass. on Tuesday evening,
April 4th. Chairman H a r r y Hood of
the Service Section Committee officiated
as toastmaster. The principal speaker
was Dr. O. J. Noer, who spoke of the
trying conditions experienced on many
golf courses this past season, and showed
colored slides to point out many of the
troubles.
The Library Committee, with the cooperation of Director Koon of the
Waltham Field Station, has available
f o r f r e e reference to our members the
following books:
New Manual of Botany—Gray.
Fertilizers and Crops—Van Slyke.
Manures and Fertilizers—Wheeler.
A Text Book of Grasses—Hitchcock.
Weeds—Walter Conrad Muenscher.
Plant Breeding—Bailey & Gilbert.
Manual of Grasses of the United
States—U. S. D. A.
These books may be borrowed by our
members f o r a period not exceeding a
month, by application to the Field Station. Other books will soon be made
available.

DOWN
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1939

OUR

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Conference

Paper)

by H. T. Islieb, Supt.
Springbrook C. C., Morristown, N. J.
You have heard that old one about
New Jersey, that the mosquitoes are so
big they j u s t take one along on their
rounds; but then with all of their faults,
these pests do have a f e w good points,
including the hum and drill rods they
carry along with them, they do quit
buzzing around in the fall of the year.
Whereas those J a p beetles, we in New
Jersey had left on our f a i r shores, their
progeny go right on getting nice and f a t
in the fall. But here is where Dr. B. R.
Leach, who experimented with these nice
f a t grubs at Riverton, put one over on
the beetle. He continued to work with
lead arsenate so long that the control
measure cost came within the reach of
most everyone. The folks who wanted
to save what good grass they had, applied lead arsenate. Now the loafer
grubs are going to their Happy H u n t i n g
grounds in the fall, or are turning into
Japanese beetles in the spring so they
can get out of Jersey and find better
feeding ground.
B u t getting down to bed rock, we
must give Dr. Leach credit f o r his work
in this field, his findings are being used
as a basis f o r beetle control wherever
they have found a foot hold.
I can assure you that we folks down
in Jersey have our hands f u l l trying to
keep them down. It has put a tremendous added financial burden on all of our
golf clubs. It is one of those absolute
musts:—if the club members wish to
continue playing golf. Otherwise they
just roll up the turf on fairways and
greens and call it a day.
We do have a bit of good f o r t u n e
down in Jersey, t h a t is having such a
fine experimental station a t New Brunswick, and an enthusiastic staff of men
to man it. These men dig into things
and along with digging in, take time out
to pass along their findings at the Turf
Short Courses which are given in the
early p a r t of February.
The amount of material they present
during the period of these courses keeps
those attending right up on their toes.
I might a d d : — t h a t every member of the
New Jersey Association has attended
some of these Courses.

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Dr. Sprague, who is a sort of Grandaddy to the men who have attended the
Courses, has a sympathetic ear into
which a lot of woes and worries are
poured. And that good bedside manner
of his handles the patients very well too.
His able helper in the early days was
Dr. Evaul; Ed to the gang. Ed's ability
to take research findings and translate
them into every day golf course maintenance practice, along with that habit
of saying in the fall of the year, "Boys,
how is the mercury residue in your
Greens, do you think you have enough to
carry you over to avoid snow mold?"
Just one of his habits of not leaving any
more to the Gods of Chance than he can
help. Rather than chance it, he does it.
These and many other things have made
Ed one of us, with us.
Mr. Longnecker came right along the
same path with his handy smile and a
word of good cheer, giving them when
they are badly needed. He certainly has
helped to sort of smooth off the rough
corners.
When the men at New Brunswick had
some spare time they picked out individual grass plants f r o m the various turf
plots, gave them the third degree, and
those which came clean a f t e r this were
given a sort of survival of the fittest
test. The good qualities of various
strains of Velvet Bents were incorporated into a fine new Velvet Bent. A
pound of this seed was offered as a prize
f o r a good name. When Raritan Bent
popped up, they could not help themselves, you know:—"On the Banks of
the Old Raritan."
This brought an unnamed grass to
the point when a christening was in
order. Raritan Bent can safely be called
a Jersey Baby, which up to the present
certainly looks like fine and healthy t u r f ,
that can take it and like it.
This Jersey State of ours has some
drawbacks, including mosquitoes and
Japanese beetles, but there are a lot of
good things about it too. Take the
Northern portion—here we find mountain climbing, here too we find fine hunting and f r e s h water fishing in the lakes
and streams. When Old Man Winter
settles down to business, you can use
your snow shoes and skis, do some figure
skating and play hockey. From here you
can, over some of the finest highways
in the country, drive down to the Southern p a r t of the state, where snowshoes
or skis do not sell very well, but there
you can hunt a few deer and do some

salt water fishing. Coming up through
the state to the central part you will
find some of the best f r u i t , potato, tomato, and chicken farms.
We have a Fish and Game Commission
which does a thorough job of stocking
our lakes and streams with bass and
trout. In the fall they t u r n out thusands
of pheasants, quail, rabbits and other
game f o r the sportsman to go a f t e r .
This same fellow uses the summer
months to train f o r the walking he must
do, by playing golf,—and does he play
golf?
There are some one hundred f o r t y nine Golf Courses scattered throughout
New Jersey, f r o m the large well known
thirty-six hole layouts, to the small nine
hole courses. These all have their own
individual maintenance conditions.
The soil varies in texture too, there
being one hundred ninety-three different
soil types found throughout the State
varying f r o m pure sand along the shore
line and southern portion to shale in the
middle and middle west. The fine silt
clay and blue stone is found in the northern section. When most of the golf
courses were built, the architects and
club officials did not as a rule pick out
a good piece of land to build a course on.
It was believed that any kind of soil
would grow grass, with maintenance
costs unconsidered. These things not
being considered in their due prospective
have added to our woes and worries.
Then, too, the climatic conditions are
variable to extremes all over the State.
To t r y to formulate rules to govern the
maintenance practices on golf courses in
the State of New Jersey even when situated within a few miles of one another
just simply would not work.
The maintenance budgets on these
golf courses vary f r o m the club with
ample to the one with but a small amount
and those in between. In all cases the
Superintendent in charge has had his
problems during the past few years;
some of which are due to the curtailment
of f u n d s and the subsequent drainage
by plants of the soil reserves, to those
of added infestations of either f u n g i or
bugs.
The variable weather has still f u r t h e r
drawbacks, particularly when considered
f r o m the angle of play. Our courses are
played on throughout the year when not
covered by snow. This play is particularly heavy in early spring when the soil
is still saturated with water. The packing of soil surfaces which our fairways

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Greener Greens
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and greens receive with this play does
considerable harm. The area surrounding cup and the walk off f r o m the green
to the tee particularly, carry the scars
of this play well along into the summer
months. The exclusion of air f r o m the
soil keeps the grass roots close to the
surface where they can find t h a t necessary element to plant nutrition. Being
close to the surface they naturally are
more susceptible to the sudden changes
of weather that are encountered during
the early p a r t of the year. This breaking
down of plant resistance does not ease
our maintenance problems nor do the
foot marks l e f t on the other areas of the
greens by both players and caddies help
smooth them out.
To f u r t h e r emphasize our variable
weather, compare the conditions here in
the New England area with t h a t of New
Jersey. During the latter part of July
and the first part of August of last year
we had a week or more of rain, then
when the soil was just about as wet and
soggy as rain water could possibly make
it, with water lying on the surface, Old
Sol pokes out with a hot smile, that kept
getting hotter with no breeze of any kind
to temper the heat a bit or drive away
the heavy air formed by too rapid evaporation. The result was a condition of
Mercury toxicity. Brown patch with a
bang, scald with a loude 1- noise came
with no partiality shown between greens
or fairways. Did turf disappear? Almost like snuffing out a candle; the "No
waiting" sign was out, and it sure meant
w h a t it said. To make conditions worse,
the weather man sent us a lot of dry
hot days just to make a good job of
cleaning up the remains, no cool nights
or breezes to help, just hot and getting
hotter.
That golf courses still exist in any
sections having had such unfavorable
conditions, is due entirely to the ability
and resourcefulness of the superintendents in charge.
How these men had to put their shoulders to the wheel and keep on to get
those greens, tees and fairways into
playing condition again! Their accomplishment merits them a word of praise.
Their club officials and members did not
hesitate to give it in a whole-hearted
manner.
Although our late fall was favorable
to t u r f , we are still wondering how
much of a hang-over we shall have f o r
1939.

Down our way we believe in the old
saying t h a t two heads are better than
one, even though they are block heads.
We get together, exchange ideas, do not
hesitate to ask f o r advice or to give it,
nor to help one another wherever or
whenever possible. On this basis our
organization was started, with the idea
of mutual help.
I t was this idea that bred the Turf
Short Courses. It was the same idea
t h a t brought about the enlargement of
the Experimental Turf plots at New
Brunswick. A few turf plots had been
started at New Brunswick in 1923. These
were enlarged, gradually, to their present
extent, by 1928.
Dr. Lippman, Dr. Sprague, and Dr.
Evaul were eager to help us with our
problems in New Jersey. They were as
anxious to try to answer the Golf Course
Superintendent's questions as he was to
have the answers. Both knew that together they would be able to discoversome of the answers in a reasonable
length of time. Working alone, the
answers would be found at too f a r dist a n t a time to be of help. The cooperation between the men at New Brunswick
and the New Jersey Association of Golf
Course Superintendents has always been
of the closest.
The establishing in 1929 of the Turf
Service by the Station was a long step
f o r w a r d . This service at first was supported by the Station, but in 1933 it
was p u t on a self supporting basis. This
service brought to the superintendents
and their clubs the benefit of laboratory
findings and the other field services at a
very moderate cost. The value of these
services are f u r t h e r increased to the
clubs through the ability of the superintendents to translate them into everyday
maintenance practices.
With some of our problems at least
partially taken care of, a feeling of being better able to cope with our sometimes desperate situations was created.
F r o m here the individual began to realize the significance of selling himself and
the organization to the clubs and their
members. In this, the New Jersey Association of Golf Course Superintendents has made definite progress. We
find the Club Officials asking about our
organization, paying tribute to its
standing and cooperating with us to a
f a r greater extent than a f e w short years
ago.
Some of our members have f u r t h e r
increased this feeling of cooperation by

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the giving of their time to the people in
their community who wish to have their
lawns and shrubbery well kept. In other
words, in making home surroundings a
place of beauty. The superintendent has
been called upon f o r advice and help,
which he has given freely, thereby creating a measure of respect, both f o r himself and his profession.
As an example of how f a r this spirit
can go, one man has had the experience
of having the players on his course stop
and ask his advice on the purchase of
articles entirely foreign to t u r f , its requirements, or to trees and shrubbery.
When folks do these things you can rest
assured, respect f o r the man and his
judgment has been created. Once created this respect will carry on during
the trying days of hot, humid weather,
with water saturated t u r f , being literally cooked alive while waiting f o r unforeseen results. A time when respect
f o r and confidence in the man's ability
are sorely needed.
These things in the long run all add ut>
to the spirit back of organization and
our aims f o r our own organization.
The organization aims, through publicity in various ways to f u r t h e r bring
its members, their work, and accomplishments, to the attention of golfers and
aspiring golfers.
The organization aims in various ways
to show the golfer that golf is a game
not a battle. When the player reaches
the point, where he makes golf a game
not a battle, a few more of our headaches will disappear.
The organization aims to keep abreast
of new developments in course maintenance throughout the year, and is fortunate in having Dr. Sprague, Dr. Evaul,
Dr. Hamilton, and Mr. Longnecker as
members. Best of all, these men do attend meetings and the members feel
t h a t they can ask questions of them and
know they will receive the best possible
answer to their questions.
The organization aims to bring to its
members something beside talking shou.
So, occasionally, we have men to talk
on various subjects which are not directly connected with course maintenance.
The members of the New Jersey organization have long realized that the
problems of maintenance are not the
only problems found in or around a
Golf Club. In realizing this and having
an understanding attitude toward other
problems confronting the club officials,

he again creates a feeling of good will
and in turn acquires a broader view point
of his particular spot.
We have during the past year sponsored several meetings at extreme ends;
of the State, to which the public was invited. We cannot say that these open
meetings were entirely successful, b u t
we do feel that some valuable experience
was gained f r o m these efforts.
We have been f o r t u n a t e in the past to
have a very active Educational Committee which has been very successful
in its efforts and is now planning bigger
and better things f o r the coming years.
A membership survey is being planned
by the New Jersey organization, a history_ so to speak of each member, his
services to clubs, his services to the organization, and other items which will
enable the organization to give the man
his proper due, should occasion demand
it.
You may understand that we do have
a few problems. The club officials are
faced with the problems of competition
for members and high taxes. The m a n
on the outside has to worry over such
trivial things as drainage, chinch bugs,
sodweb worms, Japanese beetles, and
our old reliable brown patch. But we
do look forward to meeting-day and also
to the time when meetings will be held
in other nearby sections outside of our
own state.
Meeting other groups, learning their
problems and what they have done to
solve them, getting better acquainted
with the other fellow's hopes and aspirations aside f r o m our own, will make
us realize that the old saying is well put,
"A rolling stone gathers no moss but
does gather a high polish."
By closer contact with men f r o m other
sections at f r e q u e n t intervals, we all
gain something which does not come
either out of the classroom or f r o m
text books.

"Big fishes eat little ones, such as
sardines."
"How do they get them out of the
cans?"
-—Anon.

"Why can't a girl catch a ball like a
man?"
"A man is much bigger and easier to
catch."
—Anon.

.

GREENKEEPERS

CONFERENCES

During the last three weeks of March,
on Tuesday and Friday evenings, the
Greenkeepers Club of New England,
with the Waltham Field Station cooperating, presented a series of evening
classes in practical greenkeeping, open
to members of the club and their assistants. The purpose of these classes was
to provide instruction f o r greenkeepers
whose duties prevented them f r o m attending any of the so-called Shoi't
Courses f o r greenkeepers at the various
colleges. An average of about f o r t y attended these classes. The committee in
charge consisted of Howard F a r r a n t ,
Chairman, Lloyd G. Stott, and Guy C.
West, of the Club, and Director Koon
-of the Station.

ONE OF AMERICA'S LARGEST HUMUS DEPOSITS
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ANALYSIS
ORGANIC
ASH

GRASSES
Friday evening, 7:00 o'clock
March 17
Discussion led by Dr. J. A. DeFrance,
Rhode Island Experiment Station, and
Prof. F. A. McLaughlin, Seed Testing
Laboratory of Massachusetts State
College, Amherst.
Greenkeepers participating:
Lloyd
Stott, Meadowbrook Country Club;
T. W. Swanson, Bear Hill Golf Club;
Leslie Wildgust, Winchester Country
Club; and Robert Mitchell, Kernwood
Country Club.
LANDSCAPING T H E GOLF COURSE
Tuesday evening, 7:00 o'clock
March 21
Discussion led by Prof. Harold S.
Tiffany, Waltham
Field
Station,
M. S. C.
•"Tree Repair and Restoration".
Dr.
Malcolm A. McKenzie, Massachusetts
State College, Amherst.
" F u r t h e r Ideas on Improving the Appearance of the Golf Course". George
Rommell, Wellesley Country Club.

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COLLEGE
CORNELL
UNIVERSITY
N . J. A G R I C U L T U R A L
COLLEGE
UNITED
STATES
GOVERNMENT

The program was as follows:
SOILS
Tuesday evening, 7:00 o'clock
March 14
Discussion led by Prof. Robert E.
Young,
Waltham
Field
Station,
M. S. C.
Turf Troubles in 1938, Dr. O. J. Noer,
Milwaukee Sewage Corporation.

MATTER

Highland Humus Corp.
HIGHLAND,
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N e w England Solicitor:
WHITEHEAD
Cromwell,

Conn.

MANAGERIAL PROBLEMS
Friday evening, 7:00 o'clock
March 24
"Trends". Adrian Sawyer, Jr., Braeburn Country Club.
"Labor". Homer Darling, Juniper Hill
Country Club.
"Reports, Cost Records and Systems".
Guy West, Rhode Island Country
Club.
"Relationships
and
Responsibilities".
Charles W. Parker, Wianno Country
Club.
EQUIPMENT
Tuesday evening, 7:00 o'clock
March 28
Discussion Leader, Howard F a r r a n t ,
The Country Club, Brookline.
Dealers. Orville O. Clapper, Chester
Sawtelle.
"Conveniences and Contrivances". Earl
A. Polhamus,- Charles River Country
Club.
T U R F INSECTS AND DISEASES
Friday evening, 7:00 o'clock
March 31
Discussion led by Prof. W. D. Whitcomb and C. J. Gilgut, Waltham Field
Station, M. S. C.

TALKS

ON

TREES

By E. Porter Felt
Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories
Stamford, Conn.
Spring is just around the corner and
with it comes insistent demands f o r tree
care.
The season of 1939 in New England
at least is widely different f r o m any
other in recent years so f a r as tree
needs are concerned. Literally millions
of valuable trees were greatly damaged
by the storm of last September. More
of that i n j u r y may become evident in
the next few months. A large proportion of the more highly prized trees in
the areas where the storm was most
severe
have
weakened
or
broken
branches. They need pruning to lessen
the probability of later invasion by
wood rots. Some ninety per cent of
the storm damaged trees had been
weakened by wood rots.
Many of the trees which escaped destruction by the hurricane have limbs
which would have been torn off or
broken if the blast had come f r o m a
different direction. It is comparatively
easy to locate such branches and to
make them secure with cables or wood
screws, thus greatly reducing at small
expense the probability of serious damage in the near f u t u r e by ice or wind
storms.
Evidently a large proportion of the
trees blown down had inadequate root
systems. The more highly prized trees,
those which are 100 or possibly 200
years old, are certainly worth feeding
to induce a deeper and more extended
root system thus giving the trees a
firmer hold upon the ground.
It is true that shade trees can be replaced by planting. Many fail to realize
that it takes 50 to 100 years to grow a
really satisfactory tree. It follows, so
f a r as the present generation is concerned, t h a t the trees now standing,
rather than those to be grown in the
next half century, are the ones t h a t will
give the greatest satisfaction.
Trees which have been pruned, braced
where necessary, fed and sprayed, made
a much better showing in the hurricane
swept areas than others.

"Brookline's Trees" is an unusually
interesting account of tree work in the
richest town in Massachusetts.
Residents of Brookline as early as
1670 took action to protect the trees on
the "common g r o u n d " and in 1801 provision was made f o r the care of trees
along the highways. A special tree
committee was created in 1883 and in
1885 the town voted to accept an a c t
by the General Court authorizing it to
make annual appropriations f o r shade
trees, shrubs and vines. For some years
the town appropriated two thousand
dollars annually to be used a t the discretion of the committee.
Brookline joins Boston. It has an
area of 5,600 acres and about 95 miles
of streets and 14,000 trees. The difficulties with electric wires
passing
through the trees were solved and' later
because the Gypsy Moth, Elm Leaf
Beetle and other pests became troublesome, spraying equipment was purchased
and spraying became a regular p a r t of
the tree program.
The town is f o r t u n a t e in having as
residents, both in earlier years and at
the present time, individuals who appreciate trees and who glady cooperate
in beautifying the streets with an unusual variety of trees and in making
plans f o r more systematic planting than
was possible in the earlier days. The
trees of Brookline are held in high regard by those qualified to pass upon
such matters. Just before this well illustrated book on Brookline's trees was
to go to press, the hurricane of last
September struck the town, blocking
some 70 miles of streets with prostrate
trunks and broken limbs and entailing
the expenditure of about sixty-five
thousand dollars in removing and repairing the damage to sidewalks and
streets.
It is worthy of note that
grown, stronger trees, here
where, suffered less f r o m the
those with weak branches or
root system.

the better
and elsestorm than
a deficient

The regular April meeting of the
Club was held at Braeburn on the 4th,
prior to the Service Section dinner. The
principal business was a final reading of
the revised Constitution and By-Laws.

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G.

S.

A.

MEETING

MEETING

The annual meeting of the Connecticut Association of Golf Course Superintendents was held at the H a r t f o r d Golf
Club, H a r t f o r d , Monday, March 6.
The following were elected officers:
President
A. Lentine
Tumble Brook C. C., H a r t f o r d
Vice President
H. Grahame
P u t n a m C. C.
Secretary-Treasurer
C. Traverse
Mill River C. C., S t r a t f o r d
Asst. Secretary-Treasurer . . G. Moquin
Manchester C. C.
Board of Directors—
C. Baskin, W a t e r b u r y C. C.
P. Emeneger, Fairfield C. C.
Wm. E. Perkins, Yale G. C.
Seventy-two members and guests had
dinner. The speakers were introduced
by A. B. McGinley, Sports Editor of the
H a r t f o r d Times, who acted as toastmaster.
Speakers were : F. Emeneger, Topic,
"The Connecticut Association of Golf
Course Superintendents"; J. P. Johnson, Conn. Agr. Ex. Sta., Topic, "Japanese Beetle Control"; Dr. H. B. Sprague]
N. J. Ex. Sta., Topic, "Developments in
Turf Research"; Dr. T. E. Odland and
Dr. DeFrance of Rhode Island, Topic,
"Hurricane Damage to T u r f " .
Guests included: F. D. Ross, Pres. of
Connecticut Golf Association, Eddie
Burke, Golf Champion of Connecticut,
and several chairmen of greens committees.
The next meeting of the Association
will be held at the Avon Country Club,
Unionville.
Charles Traverse,
Secretary.

The Greenkeeping
Superintendents
Association is sponsoring its first sectional educational conference June 5th.
and 6th at the Canoe Brook Country
Club, Summit, New Jersey. Cooperating
in this venture are the New Jersey
Assoc. of Golf Course Supts., Philadelphia Assoc. of Golf Course Supts.,
Northeastern New York Greenkeepers
Assoc., and the Mid-Atlantic Assoc. of
Greenkeepers, all affiliates of the national organization.
The Eastern Sectional Educational
Conference is designed to fill a long
felt need f o r service by the Greenkeeping Superintendents Association to i t s
members who are unable to attend the
annual
educational
conference
and
equipment show.
A highlight of the conference will be
a trip to Rutgers University to visit t h e
turf gardens of the Experiment Station. Dr. H. B. Sprague and his staff
are cooperating to make this part of
the program an outstanding event. It
is also planned to visit a number of golf
courses to study at first hand thenproblems.
It is hoped that all greenkeepers and
other interested persons will take this
opportunity to hear the latest i n f o r m a tion on problems of golf course maintenance and fine turf culture.
Ed. B. Cale.

Dad—"Look here! Why can't you
learn to spell?"
Boy—"The teacher keeps changing
the words."
—Anon.

OFFICERS' DIRECTORY
President
Secretary
Treasurer
Chairman
Chairman
Chairman
Chairman
Chairman

John Counsell, 5 Ellsworth Rd., Peabody,
Philip Cassidy, 45 Grosveijor 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,
Welfare Comm
Edwin Hansen, Concord C. C., Concord,
Employ. Comm. . . . A r t h u r Anderson, 358 Fuller St., W. Newton,
Trustees
George Rommel!, Jr., 54 Eddy St., West Newton,
N E W S L E T T E R officers, see page two.

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