IN THIS I S S U E MAKING A GOLF COURSE ATTRA CTIVE JULY MEETING DEMONSTRATION TURF GARDENS BROWN PATCH NOTES THE GREENKEEPER'S REFERENCE LIBRARY LIBRARY ON TURF HOW THE GRASS PLANT JULY 1931 GROWS This N E W S L E T T E R is published monthly by the Greenlceepers Club of N e w England, and sent f r e e to its members |and their Greens' Chairmen. Subscription price ten cents a copy, or a dollar a year, G U Y C. W E S T Editor 312 Mt. P l e a s a n t St., Pall River, Mass. MARSTON BURNETT Business M g r . 830 "Waltham St., W e s t Newton, Mass. July, 1931 Vol.. 3, No. 7 MAKING A GOLF COURSE ATTRACTIVE Obviously the first thing, as well as the most important, is to select a site with a variety of contour and with picturesque possibilities. H o w e v e r , most of us have the problem of improving the course or links someone else has designed and built, but even so there are o f t e n large opportunities f o r the artistically inclined to improve the vista by changing the location of a tee or by banking shrubs in an unused corner. Generally the best results are secured by changing the f a c e of Nature as little as possible. In other words, adapt your greens plan to the landscape, not changing contour any more than is absolutely necessary to fit your conception of the proper hole. Someone has said that "the best government is the one that governs the least". So the best course alters Nature the least possible. The most esteemed by the Scotch, and most talked about course, is the Royal St. Andrews, that is strung out over vhe natural dunes and hollows along the coast of Scotland. In sharp contrast to this we have the much advertised course built in N e w p o r t on the private estate of the late T . Suffern Tailer, where he endeavored to " g r a f t o n " some famous holes of abroad. Just as one could expect, it is painfully artificial, and a good example of what to avoid. A t Misquamicut, near Westerly, is a p e r f e c t l y fascinating layout. Greens nestle in natural valleys, each hole conceived to make the drive a sportingproposition between two hills, or winding down a natural depression. The second nine holes are on the lowlands, in complete contrast to the r a g g e d natural hills; a dog l e g around an inland bay, or a short hole entirely over water, a clever avoiding in construction of everything that looks artificial, geometrical, or even too intentional. But what we want to find out is how we can add a subtle touch here and there to make the course w e are on more fascinating, just why some simple holes are so charming and others so totally uninteresting. M y observation tells me that there are possibilities o f t e n in selecting a new site f o r a tee, maybe hidden in a cool shady retreat; there is an ideal one at Sakonnet between two natural granite boulders. M y green wooden settees pained me every time I looked at them, they w e r e f o r e v e r blowing over on tees raised f o r better visability. A f t e r the Fall topdressing was over I scouted my swamps f o r flat smooth stones with a weathered side if possible; one stone the right length and width made three settees when split. F r o m these I fashioned some permanent, solid, rustic, and natural settees. A t No. 1, is a f i f t e e n f o o t N e w p o r t conglomerate, just like the outcropping ledge near it, and happily looks as though it had been there since Moses was a boy. Many courses run near unsightly buildings that can be hidden by olanting rapid g r o w i n g trees. I had such a problem, and without funds f o r decorative purposes, I again took to the woods and cut a load of branches f r o m swamp willows, and with a light iron bar put them down deep enough to insure moisture in Summer, and ten f e e t apart; they are now rapidly obscuring the objectionable buildings. Bunkers can make or mar the appearance of a g o l f , course more than any other single feature. A great deal can be done with shallow bunkers by a dune-like embankment at the end a w a v f r o m the shot, and a facing, or sandflashing surface, that adds greatly to the visability, and helps the player to determine the distance to the bunker. Here again, Nature is the only infallible guide. L e a v e a j a g g e d edge with clumps so placed as to appear to advantage f r o m the place where the ball comes to rest a f t e r a f a i r drive. Of course, the distance the bunkers are f r o m the green depends on the length of the second shot. A n overhanging edge is o f t e n necessary to prevent, sand f r o m blowing out on the green. W h e n such an edge comes in f r o n t of the green, great care should be exercised to see that a proper mashie or niblick shot will not trap under the edge, but will roll back down to a lie that can be played on to the green. Such an edge is often very attractive artistically but when art alone is considered, often provokes not only just criticism, but incites to profanity. Try to analyze just why some greens are so fascinating and pick out the salient feature for use at home. It may have come to your notice that rock gardens are becoming fashionable. This suggests that rocks have an intrinsic beauty all their own. An enormous amount of money is worse than wasted on many courses in blasting and burying every natural boulder or ledge on or near a course. Leave your bit of natural scenery, lichen covered evidences of the ice ages; and dog-leg around them. A bit of careful work will make it almost impossible f o r a ball to lodge on or under them; they make a good hazard and add not a little to the sportiness and picturesqueness of a course. On my course are two holes, the most attractive of the nine, where the natural boulders make, not mar, the hole. I can best explain by a brief description of No. 3 and No. 6. No. 3 is 335 yards up hill, slightly dog-legged. From the tee located in a bog swamp, an ever widening fairway lined with brakes and blueberry bushes on both sides grades up a steady incline 220 yards. From here the fairway converges toward the green, but on the right is a generous deposit of glacial boulders terminating in a triangular cliff, apex toward the fairway, slanting at a 45 degree angle. A sliced second shot that clears the boulders bounds out into the fairway f r o m the cliff and rolls down hill to the player. A. jolly hazard, and easy to play over when properly played. The other hole is of unusual interest. The tee stands on a rocky promontory that commands an extraordinary view of the whole southern extremity of the island of Rhode Island. The green is 200 yards distant, 50 feet below the tee level, at the f o o t of an ancient ash tree. However, the important thing is the psychological effect of looking over 80 yards of irregular boulders, the last weighing approximately 50 tons. The rest is smooth fairway, but steep side hill. A topped drive plays ping pong in the rocks below. A sliced ball always disappears in a swamp. A good drive lands altogether nicely on the green. Everyone loves a sporty hole. It's a bright idea to leave some of the course material, and play over or around trouble. One last suggestion; often a great many beautiful shrubs grow wild on some part of the course, and can be transplanted to cosy corners near the fairway, and add greatly to the beauty of the place. Ferns are easy to transplant to shady places. Rhododendrons are native to R. I. and prosper in moist swampy land. Evergreens in rocky nooks add to a vista. I f but one of these suggestions fills some need on the reader's own course, I shall be content. R. Wallace Peckham, Sachuest Country Club, Newport, R. I. JULY MEETING The July meeting of the Greenkeepers Club of New England was held at Concord Country Club, Concord, Mass., Monday, July "l3th. 1st low n e t — John McDonough—79. 2nd low n e t — Guy West—82. 3rd low n e t — Paul Hayden Paul Wanberg John McCormack—tied—83. Playoff won by John McCormack. 3 low gross scores—Sowerby 86, Peckham 87, Ted Swanson 89. Clifton E. Sowerby. The August meeting will be held at the Cohasse Country Club, Southbridge, Mass., on Monday, August 10th. Inspection of grass plots and course in the morning, 18 hole medal handicap tournament will be held after lunch. The Championship of the Greenkeepers Club of New England will be held at the Rhode Island Country Club in October. Clifton E. Sowerby. When you looked over those brownpatch scars, did you think of Shakespeare's lines? " H o w poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal, but by degrees?" DEMONSTRATION Charles TURF River Country GARDENS Club Most of us have just passed through an attack of brown-patch on our greens, tees, and fairways. The following notes were taken at the plots on July 7th and 8th, and may be of interest. On July Unicorn bent stolons Red fescue (European) Red fescue ( N e w Zealand) Kernwood Velvet bent Native bent P. E. I. Colonial bent Canada velvet Red fescue Chewings fescue Washington bent stolons Metropolitan bent stolons R. I. bent Wash, grown R. I. bent N. Z. grown R. I. bent 7th large brown-patch appeared on the following plots: South German mixed bent fertilized with ammonium sulphate, compost and ammonium sulphate, lime and ammonium sulphate, sewage sludge, nitrate of soda. It also appeared on Rhode Island bent plots. On July 8th the following condition prevailed: Sprayed Unsprayed none severe none none none none none slight none slight moderate severe moderate severe none moderate none moderate none slight none slight severe moderate severe moderate severe severe severe Velvet bent, seed (Canada) moderate slight Annual blue grass slight moderate Virginia bent stolons heavy moderate Columbia bent stolons heavy Cocoos bent moderate heavy German mixed bent moderate heavy Highland velvet stolons slight moderate No. 12476 velvet stolons slight moderate These plots were sprayed with a mixture of 2/3 Calomel and 1/3 Corrosive sublimate on July 4th. outside of the plots was also attacked. Fertilizer plots, July 8th: This also was sprayed on July 9th. One Sewage sludge V e r y severe section was sprayed with yellow oxide Poultry manure moderate of mercury, at rate of one ounce per Check moderate thousand square feet. Another was Sulphate of ammonia severe sprayed with corrosive sublimate, at Compost and sulphate of ammonia rate of three ounces per thousand moderate square feet. All these different sprays Check moderate checked the brown-patch. The sprayed Nitrate of soda severe grasses have started to recover; the unUrea light sprayed still show the severe injury. Ammonium phosphate severe Check moderate Prank H. Wilson, Jr. 6-12-4 severe 12-6-4 moderate B R O W N - P A T C H NOTES Check slight Lime and ammonium sulphate severe Nearly all clubs in New England had Bone meal severe brown-patch, either small or large, or both, during the second week of July. These fertilizer plots were sprayed The weather was humid, and moist, and on July 9th with Callotox at the rate the temperature was generally quite of 2 pounds in 50 gallons of water per high. thousand square feet. The rows of greens grasses half of which are sprayed A t Braeburn, where the greens had and half unsprayed were also sprayed had Calogreen on Tuesday and Wednesday, there was a little large, no again July 9th with a mixture of 2/3 small, but tees were covered. Belmont calomel and 1/3 corrosive sublimate at Springs had some of both; Barbak 211 the rate of 3 ounces in fifty gallons of had been used dry, cure doubtful. A t water per thousand square feet. Charles River, mixture of 2/3 Calomel The South German mixed bent on the $390.00 A SEASON SAVED! "$300.00 a season saved on oil and gas by use of the P E N N S Y L V A N I A Tractor", writes Herb. Jewson, of the famous Roxborough Country Club, in the Philadelphia district." "50c cost for the entire season for keeping the P E N N S Y L V A N I A Tractor", writes Chas. G. Wilkinson, Supt. Roosevelt Memorial Park, Oyster Bay. Send f o r catalog, with full details of all P E N N S Y L V A N I A Golf equipment. JOHN J. N Y H A N 120 Cypress Street, Brookime, Mass. R A C K L I F F E BROTHERS, INC. New Britain, Conn. Pennsylvania Lawn M o w e r Works, Primos, Delaware County, BRECJC'S 85 S t a t e St. Ask For 20 L e w i s Boston Wharf Demonstration In 1923, the Jacobsen Manufacturing Company introduced the first Power Putting Green Mower. Having inherited certain fundamental principles already perfected in the well-known Jacobsen 4-ACRE Power Mower, the design of the putting green mower was well founded and the improvements made f r o m time to time were mainly in the nature of mechanical refinements and adaptations to the peculiarities and changing nature of putting green turfs. Greenskeepers, recognizing the economic need of a power green mower, have worked closely and willingly with us f r o m the beginning and the Jacobsen Power Putting Green Mower has earned a definite place and wide recognition as a practical, economical and efficient cutting unit on putting greens. By its use, savings have been recorded of f r o m $600 to $2000 in a single season. The Jacobsen Power Putting Green Mower is built in two widths—one with a 19-inch reel, the other with a 24-inch reel. Pa. A COMPLETE LINE OF GOLF COURSE EQUIPMENT A N D SUPPLIES Distributors for: Naco Golf Course Fertilizer Royer Compost Machines Koppers Sulphate of Ammonia Albion Distributor Hardie Power Sprayers Thompson Sprinklers Seeds, Fertilizers, Etc. Arthur B. Porter, Inc. 55 DEARBORN STREET SALEM, MASS. Tel. Salem W r i t e f o r our illustrated 2317 1931 catalogue. When buying from our advertisers, mention N E W S L E T T E R ! and 1/3 Corrosive sublimate is being used both as preventive and cure; brown-patch came on some greens in spite of it. Barbak 211 applied on Thursday, brown-patch came Sunday. A t Kittansett, Calogreen is being used both as preventive and cure. Nu-Green is being used with good results at Bear Hill, Woodland; Tatnuck and Needham are using Calo-clor with success. Cohasse is using Semesan. The results reported with Barbak 211 are not too favorable so far. Several g-reenkeepers report no control, a f e w wish to try it further, and a f e w others think they got control f o r a f e w days. Send in your results with any fungicide. Let us know how much brownpatch you have had, and any factors which you think may have had anything to do with the attacks or the control. W e are pleased to have a letter from P r o f . Lawrence S. Dickinson of the Massachusetts State College, relative to the unusual conditions which brought the large brown-patch the past f e w weeks: "During the past three weeks there has been a very general and serious attack of large brown-patch throughout New England. This has come at a very unusual time, and without a chilling temperature. This has . caused many greenkeepers to doubt the chilling factor in the development of the brownpatch fungus, and many more of them to doubt the value of polling. I want to call your attention to the f a c t that in my lectures, and in the publications regarding temperatures necessary f o r the development' of the fungus, I have f r o m the very first rtated that the fungi would develop if the temperature remained "for 14 to 16 hours between -78 and 85 degrees P . W e have had two occasions in the last three weeks-whea this unusual condition has occurred, and the resultant attack of brown-patch has appeared and also has been very serious. Under such conditions I doubt whether fungicides or Boiling wouldi gi^e complete control, but I am very certain that either one will be a very great help in the control of the disease, and either one, especially polling, will lessen the severity of the attack." W e are indebted to Prof. Dickinson f o r thus clearing some of the doubt and uncertainty which many greenkeepers are bound to have concerning this very troublesome fungus. THE GREENKEEPER'S LIBRARY A list of books recommended for the greenkeeper's library at the Amherst Conference: "Golf Architecture in America," Thomas " T u r f f o r Golf Courses," Piper and Oakley " A Text Book of Grasses," Hitchcock " N e w Manual of Botany," Grey "Handbook of Fertilizers," Gustafson " T h e Lawn," Dickinson "Common Weeds of the Farm and Garden,". Lang "Shrubs of the United States," Apgar " T h e A B C of Turf Culture," 0. J. Noer "Grasses," Ward " T h e Soil," Hall " T h e Links," Hunter "Plant Disease Fungi," Stevens " L a w n Care," O. M. Scott & Sons "Golfdom," " T h e National Greenkeeper," Green Section "Bulletin," "Michigan Weeds," "Golf T u r f , " Stumpp & Walter W e might add: Various U. S. D. A . and Experiment Station Bulletins. The N E W S L E T T E R ! W e hope. Some Bulletins which will help: , "Important Cultivated Grasses," U. S. D. A . Farmers' Bulletin, No. 1254. "Experiments with Turf Grasses in New Jersey," New Jersey Agri. Exp. Sta., Bulletin 497. "Seed Inspection," Mass. Agri. Exp. Sta., Bulletin 56. "Lead-Arsenate Experiments on the Germination of Weed Seeds," Cornell Univ. Agri. Exp. Sta., Bulletin 508. " T h e Persistence of Certain Lawn Grasses as Affected by Fertilization ."nd Competition," R. I. Exp. Sta., Bulletin 217. " A n Analytical Study of the Putting Greens of Rhode Island Golf Courses," R. I. Exp. Sta., Bulletin 212. " W e e d s : How to Control Them," U. S. D. A . Farmers' Bulletin 660. " L a w n Management Facts," Mass. A g r i . College, Extension Leaflet, No. 85. " T h e Effect of A i r Temperature on the Pathogenicity of Rhizoctonia Solani Parasitizing Grasses on Putting Green T u r f , " Mass. Agri. Exp. Sta., Contribution No. 105. And many others on side issues! BARBAK-211 (TURF DISINFECTANT) Insures p e r f e c t greens Eliminating the d r e a d e d Brown Patch B A E B A K 211 gives a longer period of Brown Patch prevention than ordinary disinfectants and therefore cuts the coat of greens upkeep. One enthusiastic greenskeeper tells us that B A R B A K 211 gave absolute prevention f r o m Brown Patch f o r 42 days; adjoining turf around the treated area had 5 attacks of Brown Patch during this period. The time lost in fighting stubborn Brown Patch could be put to greater use in perfecting other parts of the golf course. Make a test of B A R B A E — l e t it tell its own story. Prices: 1 lb. Tin $1.85, 51b. Tin 8.25, 251b. Tin 33.75, 100 lb. Tin 130.00, 300 lbs. $375.00 T H O M P S O N FIFTY G A L L O N BARREL SPRINKLER No. 50 Thompson Barrel Sprinkler (without agitator) $30.00 No. 51 Thomp-on Barrel Sprinkler (with agitator) $35.00 Complete Scmesan NuGresn Catalog on . .. request. Hovey & Company Calogreen 150 CaloClor Corrosive MILK Boston, Sublimate Tel. Hancock STREET Mass. 1454-1455 Consult freely ing us regard- your difficulties, turf we will inspect and report course charge. Our advertisers aim to p l e a s e Y O U on your without SUGGESTIONS LIBRARY ON FOR TURF A ( N . J. A g r i . E x p . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. REFERENCE MANAGEMENT Sta.) Land Drainage and Reclamation by Ayres & Scoates. Published by McGraw-Hill Book Co. Land Drainage by Powers & Teeters. Published by John Wiley & Sons. The Nature and Properties of Soils by Lyon & Buckman. Published by The MaeMillan Co. Principles of Soil Technology by Emerson. Published by The MaeMillan Co. Soil Management by Bear. Published by John Wiley & Sons. Fertilizers by Bear. Published by John Wiley & Sons. Fertilizers by Voorhees. Published by The MaeMillan Co. Plant Nutrition and Crop Production by Russell. Published by Univ. of California Press. Bacteria and Soil Fertility by Greaves. Published by D. VanNostrand Co. Bacteria in Relation to Country L i f e by Lipman. Published by The MaeMillan Co. The Botany of Crop Plants by Robbins. _ Published by P. Blakiston's Son & Co. The Principles of Plant Culture by Goff. Published by The MaeMillan Co. Turf f o r Golf Courses by Piper & Oakley. Published by the MacMillian Co. The A. B. C. of Turf Culture by Noer. Published by the National Greenkeeper. Manual of Weeds by Ada Georgia. Published by The MaeMillan Co. Injurious Insects by O'Kane. Published by The MaeMillan Co. Insects and Their Control by Wilson. Printed by Thatcher-Anderson Co., N e w Brunswick, N. J. Diseases of Economic Plants by Stevens & Hall. Published by The MaeMillan Co. Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. f o r 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929. Agricultural Meterology by Smith. Published by The MaeMillan Co. There will be a meeting of the Rhode Island Greenkeepers' Association, to which all members of the Greenkeepers' Club of New England are invited, on Monday, August 17th, at the Massasoit Country Club, Warwick, R. I. Eighteen holes of golf in the morning, followed by an old fashioned clambake at Dubey's Grove nearby. The July meeting of the Rhode Island Greenkeepers' Association was held at the Warwick Country Club. The Green Section Summer Meeting will be held at the Experimental Plots at the Charles River Country Club, Newton Centre, Mass. on July 27th at 3 P. M. John Latvis of Tatnuck is a very fortunate man, as he is now the proud user of his new combine i garage and workshop, built at cost of $12,000. This building not only contains showers and toilets f o r the workmen, but also has a fine office f o r the greenkeeper. Johnson Motor Scythe, manuA factured by Hedge and Matthies Co. of Boston, was demonstrated at the July meeting. We are pleased to note that the newspapers are giving more and more space to greenkeepers. The Providence Journal recently had a fine article on the difficulties of greenkeeping. with pictures and comments from Thomas Galvin, Martin Greene, and Harry Cottelle. W e also have noticed with interest the fine publicity which the Manchester (N. H . ) Union is giving Bill Lindsay this year. Sehmuch ( A t filling station) : " H e r e comes another I. W. W. customer." L o a f e r : "What's that?" Sehmuch: " A motorist who wants information, wind and water." As we understand the doctors, you can live much longer if you will quit everything that makes you want to. There's no telling how good business might be if all the people studying unemployment would go to work. "Stop worrying about meeting competition and start meeting prospects." 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Write For Full Particulars NEW ENGLAND For The The REPRESENTATIVE Worthington E. R. To Mower Company SAWTELLE ONE S T A T E S T R E E T BOSTON Telephone Hubbard 2424 HOW THE GRASS PLANT GROWS DISCUSSION This discussion was led by P r o f . Davis of the Botany Department. A n y old rotting material which plant can take in is humus. Necessary elements f o r plant growth are C H O P K N S Ca Fe Mg. These are found in everything that lives. A f t e r root dies, (containing necessary elements), it is organic, it is available f o r plant food in five days. Some plants will die out under competition; will starve to death unless fed and watered. There is no need to inoculate f o r legumes, better fertilize. Organic material holds water. Finely ground charcoal will hold moisture. Earthworms help to make organic matter available. (Read Darwin's " T h e o r y of Vegetable M o l d " ) . There is a vast quantity of organic matter available which could be used, composted first f o r some time with soil and manure. Individual plants have taste f o r other elements. Carbon dioxide f r o m air and water and oxygen f r o m soil used by plant to f o r m starch, this changes to sugar to feed plant. Phosphorus is taken into root, goes to nucleus of every cell. The potash is sort of a hammer to stimulate other elements. Protoplasm is mostly nitrogen. Sulphur also goes into the protoplasm. The iron is used in forming the green of the plant. The July meeting of the Rhode Island Greenkeepers Association was held at the Harrington Country Club, Barrington, R. I. on July 20th. Over f o r t y members and guests played nine holes in the morning and nine in the afternoon over this sporty layout, owned and operated as a public course by Mr. Harry Cottelle. A fine clam-bake was served at noon. Gross prizes were won by R. Wallace Peckham of the Sachuest Golf Club and Robert MacAndrew of the West Warwick Country Club with gross scores of 73. First net was won by Martin Greene with a net of 73. Here is an interesting note, well vouched f o r which will be of interest to golf fans. Golf hazards in A f r i c a are such that in the rules of one golf club it is stated the ball may be lifted without penalty if it lodges in the footprint of a hippopotamus ! Note to business: It's much harder to turn a corner lying1 dcwn. "QUALITY" LAWNS, GOLF and S P O R T TURF Feed balanced food. Small brown-patch belongs to genus Fusarium, of which there are 2200 varieties. Disease is often to blame f o r poor conditions, when some other factor is blamed. World's biggest crop is grass. G. C. W. "Unless it makes l i f e more worth while, don't call it education. The only lasting values any culture can produce are to broaden man's capacity f o r service and to bring the human spirit greater peace." 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