This N E W S L E T T E R is published
monthly by the Greenkeepers Club of
New England, and sent free to its members and their Greens' Chairmen. Subscription price ten cents a copy, or a
dollar a year.
GUY C. WEST
Editor
312 Mt. P l e a s a n t St., Pall River, Mass.

MARSTON BURNETT

Business Mgr.

September, 1931

Vol. 3, No. 9

330 W a l t h a m St., W e s t Newton, Mass.

COOPERATIVE

BUYING

For several years now, group, or cooperative, buying of the supplies and
equipment for the maintenance of golf
courses has been agitated and attempted.
The fact that no permanent headway
has been made over a period of five or
six years should indicate that the advantages from this type of purchasing
are not too easily available to such a
peculiarly specialized business as golf
course maintenance.
The persistency of the idea, however,
indicates that it is still very much alive
in the minds of many golf club
executives. Unfortunately these men
are not familiar with the details of group
buying and so are unable to determine
if such a policy is practically possible.
Briefly:—to them the idea sounds
good. It should be adopted.
Co-operative buying in its simplest
form is the collecting of the similar
needs of individuals into one unit. Placing the order for this unit at the source
most favorable and paying for the unit
by a single payer. After these operations are performed the material becomes available to the individuals in the
amounts indicated when the pool was
being formed. The individuals pay for
their takings to the pool agent who has,
as I have indicated already paid the
producer for the gross amount.
In the fertilizer and grain business
the pool agent receives the car loads on
a draft-bill-of-lading and the individual!
pay him, cash at the car door for their
takings. There can be many variations
but basically the above is true cooperative buying.
Now let us apply this to golf club
buying. I will grant that it is possible
to get enough individuals clubs to agree
upon one commodity to create a volume
sufficiently attractive to a producer to

cause him to make a worthwhile price
concession but who is going to act as
the pool agent. What individual or club
will guarantee the payment and automatically take upon itself all the detail
of collecting from the individual clubs
who make up the pool? The distribution cannot so easily be taken
care of as the "cash-at-the-car-door"
policy of the feed and fertilizer
business. Warehousing also will enter
into the problem.
It still may seem practically possible
to set up an organization to handle this
work, true, but determine the total
volume of business, estimate the maximum savings and check this against the
cost of operating an organization competent to insure its satisfactory functioning. Truly co-operative buying
becomes something more than a fine
idea that ought to be adopted.
Charles Parker,
Belmont Spring C. C.
SOME IDEAS ON BROWN
by W. E. L a n g t o n

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PATCH

(Republished from August, 1931—
Pacific Greenkeeper)
N e v e r in t h e history of Southern
California golf have greenkeepers had
to contend with more trouble than during this year of 1931. What with depleted treasuries, heat and humidity,
army worms and cut worms, and finally
both varieties of brown patch in enormous quantities, it would seem that the
greenkeepers' cup of woe could contain
not another drop. And unfortunately
the people who play golf will never
realize at what a cost the courses have
been kept playable nor the herculean
tasks that have been accomplished by
individual greenkeepers and by greenkeepers as a group. But even with constant care it is safe to predict that had
the heat and the humidity lasted another two weeks, scarcely a fine green
out of the host would have been left
in Southern California. Even at this late
date the greens are not safe because
spasmodic outbreaks of brown patch
constantly are occuring, but not to the
alarming extent of a few weeks ago.
At the present time, which might be
termed a breathing spell, it would be
well for greenkeepers to take stock of
brown patch and see how far they have
traveled towards a system of control of
the pest. To say the most, they have

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not moved very much. By the employment of certain methods of culture and
aided by expensive mercury-chlorine
compounds the growth of the pernicious ailment can be checked, but that is
about all that can be claimed. It has
been fairly conclusively demonstrated
that while the mercurial compounds kill
the germs or whatever it is that is directly responsible for brown patch, it
also destroys those bacteria useful to
plant life. Greenkeepers find themselves in the same predicament as the
citrus growers who fumigate for red
— spider and at the same time kill scale
destroying lady bugs. It must be apparent to anyone who is an observer chat
a continued use of calomel or corrosive
sublimate cannot help but destroy all
the life in the soil, for the compounds of
mercury and chlorine constitute some of
the deadliest poisons known to man.
B u t t h i s possibly is not the worst
result of the treatments. Because the
soil is so broken down the greenkeeper must begin all over again in
building it up, and herein lies the very
grave danger of applying just a little too
much fertilizer with consequent dire results, especially if the weather is very
warm. Many a greenkeeper wonders to
this day why his greens burnt when only
a tiny portion of fertilizer was applied.
The same amount of fertilizers used in
other years would have been wasted as
being not enough to keep the grass
strong and vigorous, but this year the
presence of the highly corrosive chemical fertilizers which have been applied
to the soil in such abundance have tended to dry up the soil water or sap, and
^m^ to feed high concentrates immediately
after their application was fatal to fine
grass. Pine grasses with their succulent
growth never in their lives have much
stored plant food and if a fertilizer engendered plant burn strikes when the
plants are in a disease-weakened condition they are gone forever.
It is problematical what heavy irrigation has had to do with the development of brown patch, but my experience
has shown that the greens which were
irrigated most had the most brown
patch. Nor did drainage have any effect because the banks of the most
heavily infected greens were effected
worst by the ailment. There is a tendency during hot weather to throw volumes of water on the greens, perhaps
more than the grass needs for healthy
growth. Every available space in the
soil is filled by water leaving no room

for the oxygen which is necessary for
the continuation of plant life. Acquatic
plants are an exception to this rule, of
course, for they, through countless ages
of specialization have learned how to
take care of themselves in this regard.
W h i l e s p e a k i n g of irrigation, the time
for watering must be considered. We
know that brown patch develops during
the night and on cloudy humid days.
When the sun is shining and a dry
breeze is blowing it hardly ever occurs. We know then that for its maximum culture it requires heat, darkness,
moisture, and an absence of wind, and
yet we insist in keeping the greens
saturated with water all night long.
This may be a controversial matter
with greenkeepers and one open to
heated discussion, but as far as I am
concerned night watering of greens is
out.
Another thing that perhaps we have
overlooked during the hot, humid, brown
patch period is the practice of cutting
greens closely. The quality of service
is as great among greenkeepers as any
other class because if they do not please
they lose their jobs. But the golfers'
demand for closely cropped greens is
something else again, or should be. Unfortunately the golfers do not know this,
so they get their greens like billiard
tables whether it is good for them or
not. Unfortunately for everybody concerned the grasses kick over the traces
at this scheme of things, being unable
to take in sufficient carbon dioxide to
manufacture their extremely essential
sugars. After they have used up all
their stored starches which are made
available as sugar, they burn up with a
sort of a fever which either causes or
is the effect of poor respiration in the
plant. To complicate matters further,
the roots declare a holiday, not having
anyone upstairs for whom to work.
Another thing that greenkeepers have
discovered is that the clubs which have
been using high concentrates during the
brown patch have been more infected
than those clubs which have not been
able to afford fertilizers. If there is
anything to this one begins to wonder
if brown patch is something like gout,
gout being an ailment of high living
people, half starved people not being
afflicted. But in looking into the matter
it is obvious that richly fed greens must
be softer, more succulent, and greater
sap containers than those grasses
which have been fertilized lightly
or not at all. The latter would
be more fibrous with less space

in the cells and with less material for
microbes to feed upon. A green of this
latter type of grass would be less likely
to burn if fertilizers were applied during
a warm spell than a green of richly fed
grass.
Perhaps after all greenkeepers have
been trying too hard to achieve the
well nigh impossible: perfect green 365
days in the year. There may be nothing to it but the fact that clubs which
could not afford to buy fertilizer were
least affected by brown patch is bound
to carry a lot of weight in this regard.
It has already been proved that the continual use of ammonium sulphate is
dynamite as far as grass is concerned
and if carried too far will be absolutely
fatal. Further it has been shown that
even the smallest application of this
chemical during hot weather will burn
the grass to some degree, and that it
will start a violent attack of brown
patch if the conditions are right, and
they usually are.
To sum the whole question of brown
patch treatment, which is synonymous with maintaining fine greens, it is
a vital factor for those greenkeepers
with a reputation to keep and whose
love for their work is paramount. The
writer has consulted with many experienced grass men and from them has
gleaned a considerable fund of information, which, coupled with his own experience, suggests that the following
treatment will help but not cure greens
afflicted with brown patch:
If either large or small brown patch
is prevalent, give a dose of any of the
advertised mercurial compounds to
check the ailment, and then correct the
soil condition by an application of
crushed lime rock or any other available
calcium material. Keep the greens cool
by watering frequently but lightly; do
not allow ground to get soggy. Refrain
from giving greens all highly nitrogenous foods or any other material likely to
burn. An application of a loamy soil
free from weeds and mixed with a good
gradet of peat will protect the roots from
the hot sun and furnish sufficient food
to sustain life and keep the grass
healthy. Raise the cutting height of the
mowers to five-sixteenths of an inch
even though the greens become nappy
or slow to putt upon. Remember that it
is easier to perfect a strong growing
green than a sick one and that a full
grown leaf will take in twice the amount
of nourishing food that half a leaf will.
Spike or disc the greens occasionally to

permit the entrance of oxygen into the
soil.
These commonplaces are the best
ideas that at least the writer has for the
treatment of brown patch. Until some
heaven sent panacea is produced, the
best that greenkeepers can do is to keep
healthy what grass they have by not
seeking the will-o'-the-wisp of perfection.
AN IDEA
We had been hearing some of the
experts say that we shouldn't worry any
more about brown-patch, that they can ^ ^
control it all right, and such remarks,
when this season came along, and everybody feels that they really know very
little. Mercury compounds that controlled
before were not of much use in some
cases, grass scalded when watered daily,
new diseases, or what appeared new,
came to visit several. It appears to us
that although the work being done by
the experts is good and will help, that
more must be done by the greenkeepers
themselves before we will ever get anywhere in the control of these troubles.
In talking with greenkeepers here and
there, I find many conflicting opinions.
I feel that many are of value, and the
truth and value of them should be sifted
out and all pieced together.
I would suggest that we of the New
England Greenkeepers Club form a
committee to be known as the BrownPatch Committee, (for want of a better
name), and that this committee gather
from all of our members all data and
thoughts and opinions, and try to work
it all out and get some data which
might help. In this connection, each
member should keep records of every
attack of any disease, its severity,
greens affected, types of grass attacked,
control measures used, humidity and
temperature at time of attack, etc. All
this data could be analized with some
benefit, and a few years might give us
data that would end the trouble. Such
data gathered would help the experts
who are trying to help us. The gathering of it would possibly help each of us
doing it.
If other district associations cared to
work along such lines, we might progress faster and better. The success of
such a plan would lie in the carefulness
with which the data was gathered, its
completeness, and the way in which it
was all used. What do you think of
the idea?
G. C. W.

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PRO-NU-GREEN

After reading of others' experiences
with brown-patch this Summer, I am
relating mine. I bought and used two
hundred pounds of Barbak 211 before
I found chat Nu-Green was much better for my troubles. I surely had a lot
of ring patch (large) start, but went
after it at the start and prevented scars.
I claim of the three, Barbak 211, Semesan, and Nu-Green, that Nu-Green is the
most effective as a control or cure.
I had some scald but heavy watering
and light fertilizing is a great cure.
The only use I have for poling is to
dry grass for cutting. I have tried poling half of one green, and leaving the
other half to dry without using the pole,
and find the half poled was affected a
hundred per cent more with ring patch.
This was done just for an experiment.
I have a part of my lawn of Rhode
Island bent set off for experimental
work. I am working on weed control,
patch, fertilizers, ants, watering, etc.,
and get a lot of fun out of it.
I would not think of trying to control
brown-patch without a two hundred
pound pressure sprayer, but have found
by mixing Nu-Green with screened loam
and broadcasting and watering it in
gives fine control. One objection I have
to Barbak is that it leaves a grayish
color to grass while Nu-Green seems to
give grass a darker shade of green
which I am very anxious to have. My
greens are all one solid green color due
to proper handling of fertilizing and
topdressing.
If anything on the market is good and
I can be shown is cheaper for patch
than Nu-Green, I am open to look it
over, but do not want to take any
chances with a dreaded disease like
patch.
Roland F. Robinson,
Comstock Park.
SEPTEMBER

MEETING

The September meeting was held at
the Charles River Country Club, Newton Centre, Mass., on Monday, September 14. The morning was devoted to
an interesting examination and discussion of the experimental plots.
Results of 18 hole medal handicap
tournament held in afternoon are as
follows:

1st net—M. McDonald—100-24-76.
2nd net—Jim Holden—97-18-79.
3rd net—C. O'Keefe—94-15-79.
Most 3's—James Sullivan.
Largest gross—E. Polhamus.
Special prizes for green chairmen
won by:
Mr. Paul—1st net—89-15-74.
Mr. Turrell—2nd net—92-14-78.
The club championship will be held
at the Rhode Island Country Club,
Barrington, R. I. on Monday, October 5.
Dinner at 12; 18 hole medal play
tournament at 1 P. M.
Clifton E. Sowerby.
When the newly-crowned P. G. A.
Champion Tom Creavy said that he
putted well because he never before
had putted on such fine .greens, and a
well known sports writer wrote that the
greens at Wannamoisett were perfect,
Martin Greene received two well-deserved tributes to the splendid condition of his greens, and indeed his' course
as a whole, during the week of September 14th. In this year of brown-patch,
scald, and other kindred troubles, when
we hear of courses here and there playing on temporary greens, and others reseeding their greens, it was indeed remarkable to find Wannamoisett in such
wonderful shape. We know the struggle
Martin has had this year, and we hereby
extend our congratulations that he has
done such a fine job.
In an exclusive interview with your
Editor, Martin says he had luck with
him, and especially so in that he had
his greens sprayed just before the heavy
attack of large brown-patch came early
in July. Spraying with Calogreen
every fifteen days since has prevented
all small brown-patch, and nearly all of
the large.
Our congratulations are also due the
Wannamoisett Country Club officials
for the able way in which this P. G. A.
tournament was run. We feel that it
was a credit to all New England Golf.
At the August meeting, held at the
Cohasse Country Club, a No. 2 Stewart
iron was taken by mistake from the bag
of James McCormack of the Unicorn
Country Club, and probably was put in
someone else's bag. As this club belongs
to a matched set, Mr. McCormack is
very anxious to get it back, and would
appreciate hearing from anyone who
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The annual Fall Field Day on grass
culture will be held at the New Jersey
Agricultural Experiment Station, New
Brunswick, N. J. on Monday, October 5.
The meeting will open on the experimental plots at 3 P. M., and will be followed by an evening meeting at the
Hotel Woodrow Wilson, with several
speakers and discussions.
Those who grow bent grass for seed
production have their troubles, as well
as we who grow the bent for turf, as is
noted in a recent letter from A. N.
Peckham of Kingston, R. I.:
"I think I have had what you could
honestly call "a Hell of a time" growing Bent for seed production this summer. Don't you think for a minute that
the fellow that is growing Bent grass
for fine turf production is the only one
that has trouble along the line. The
fellow that grows Bent grass for need
production has just as many troubles,
if not more than the man who takes
the seed and grows it for fine turf. You
have brown patch of one or two kinds,
and various other fungus diseases, and
of course you have bugs, worms, and
soil conditions that you have to surmount. Now in growing Bent for seed
production we have to correct our soil
conditions in order to grow it clear.
That is if we have extremely basic conditions clover, etc. are bound to come
into the picture, and the seed will become mixed with the Rhode Island Bent.
To correct such conditions we have to
apply acid reacting chemicals. We have
our blights, and our blasts that affect
the grass in the fields. We have just
the same brown patch as you have. It
often kills out areas and we cannot
check it practically on large areas that
are devoted to seed production the same
as you can on small areas devoted to
turf production. We also have different
kinds of grubs that often come in damp
seasons and eat the root system of
whole fields at a time, and then we have
the cussed army worms. I have been
afflicted with them twice in eleven
years. Army worms are usually more
prevalent in wet seasons, and when
army worms decide to go through a field
of Bent they completely ruin the areas.
If they should happen to go over a putting green they would only eat off all
the green grass. It would start right in
growing again within a few days. But
if they go through a field of Bent for
seed production they ruin the year's
crop. This year we have had a new

pest. We don't know what it is. It
turns the hay completely brown before
the seed is ripe. It isn't any of the
usual regulation fungus diseases that
we know about. It appeared in several
fields of my Velvet Bent. We have also
had very adverse climatic conditions
during the summer to harvest the seed.
The seed this year will not carry a high
percentage of germination and it will
look brown because of the excessive
amount of rain."
From a recent letter from a prominent executive:
"I notice the controversy now going
on as to whether the man that does all
the work on the golf course and is responsible for not only the maintenance
of greens, but the maintenance of everything else, whether it be buildings, trees,
bridges, creeks or lakes, should be
called something else besides the greenkeeper.
The boys will have their merry little
argument, and the thing will end up
by the men who are really superintendents still calling themselves superintendents, and the men who are more
interested in being solely greenkeepers
calling themselves greenkeepers.
I notice that some of those in this
week's discussion used the argument,
"What's in a name? A rose will still
smell as sweet" or words to that effect.
This might have been all right in
Shakespeare's time, but a pertinent
article in this week's Time suggests that
if the late Starr Faithful had been
named Sadie Schmitz she would never
have gotten beyond the fourth or fifth
page. As it was, she had the front page
for the past several weeks.
Undoubtedly it's the man behind the
title, but the shrewdest concerns in this
business realize that the title helps to
make a good man a better man, and
that is the whole point which rests behind the present suggestion to change
the name."
At Braeburn, rocks are being blasted
in rough and fairways. John Shanahan
also reports that they are busy fighting
crab grass. Greens on which $200 was
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will cost but $50.
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"Fertilizer Tests of Several Soil
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Cornell Univ. Agri. Exp. Station.
"Lawn Fertilization" by M. F. Morgan; Circular 77, Conn. Agri. Exp. Station.
"The Effect of Various Sources of
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Boston Factory Branch
273 BOYLSTON ST., BROOKLINE, MASS.

W h e n writing our advertisers, mention NEWSLETTER

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The TORO "Knockabout" is a three wheeled, rubber tired, motor
driven conveyance to provide quick and inexpensive transportation of
operator and hand tools from place to place on the Golf Course.
The power is furnished by the TORO Park Special motor. Thousands
of these motors are daily delivering satisfactory service on power mowers,
power cultivators and other types of equipment. This motor like the other
TORO products is built within our own factory.
It is to be expected that the first thought of using a machine of this
type may appear altruistic and perhaps amusing, but we are told by those
trying it that it has a definite place on the Golf course and after a day
or two of joy riding it has proven its worth in transporting hose, sprinklers,
cup cutter, tee towels, ball washer soap, not to mention its value for
messenger and inspection service.
Our desire this season is to secure and analyze as many reports from
experience as the time will afford. This demonstrator is now in Newton,
and it will be delivered for trial purposes, without charge to any member
of this Greenkeepers Club for a limited period of time. Your only obligation is to request the machine, and give us an unbiased report after you
have tried it for three or four days.
This machine, like any other new product, cannot be purchased nor
used unless it can by virtue of its capacity demonstrate that it will perform
certain duties in an efficient manner. We believe you men can better
form this decision after it has been given a first hand trial.

N E W E N G L A N D TORO C O M P A N Y — N E W T O N , MASS.
Phone Newton North

7900-7901