would be little or no complaint, at least
none justified, but the catch is that
you get about 80 cents worth for 90
cents and think you are getting the
hundred cents value.
Perhaps this editorial can be applied
to the Golf business, but whether or
not, the thought I want to get over to
the boys is that this editorial represents
sound thinking and that each of us_ in
Barrington, Mass.
our small individual ways can help bring
the scheme of general happiness
Vol. 4, No. 8 back
and security by lending our efforts to
this good cause."

This NEWSLETTER 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
812 Mt. Pleasant St., Fall River, Mass.
MARSTON BURNETT . . Business Mgr.
WyantenUck G. C., Great

August, 1932

BARGAINS

The subjects of bargains and cut
prices fill a good many pages of our
magazines and newspapers today. The
great American tendency today seems
to see how much we can buy at what
really is below cost of production. In
the golf course maintainence line, we
greenkeepers have kept our costs down
greatly this year because of cut prices,
and bargains here and there. Some of
these are justified; because of lower
costs of production, and other factors,
but others have only been due to the
price wars which various dealers have
waged to get the business. We greenkeepers have reaped the benefits of any
such price wars.
We have noticed on various sides
thinking men, economists, business men,
who are pointing out the danger of this
present attitude, of forever trying to
find the bargains. We believe that the
editorial on the back cover, taken from
the August issue of Good Housekeeping
has a real message to us as buyers of
thousands of dollars of merchandise
yearly. In this connection we are quoting two paragraphs of a letter which
came to the Editor from Manager 0. 0.
Clapper of the New England Toro Co.
"The enclosed editorial from the
August Good Housekeeping magazine
touches on a subject of vital importance
to the stability of business today. Too
much has been said for the bargain
hunter and bargain proffer and it's time
we all realize that the institutions of
today rendering good service at reasonable prices are entitled to reasonable
consideration. The day is coming when
the buyers who have built the bargain
seller at the expense of the staple merchant will find their pet bargain dealer
upping his prices to compete with the
old line dealer who retained his standing
at great sacrifices. Were it impossible
to buy a dollars worth at 90 cents there

AUGUST

MEETING

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More than fifty members and guests
attended the August meeting, held at
the Wannamoisett Country Club, Rumford, R. I. on August 1st. At a shoro
business meeting the following were
elected to membership: Dennis A. Hannon, Howard B. Hall, Michael McDonough, H. C. Darling, regular members, and Thomas T. Mattus, Arthur W.
MacLean, associate members.
At the 18 hole medal handicap tournament, first gross was won by E. Ma~ciocchi with a fine 75, while three tied
for first net, and three others for
fourth net. After the tosses, the results were:
1st net, Wm. McBride 90-18-72.
2nd net, Michael O'Cra^v—87-15-72.
3rd net, John Latvis—96-24-72.
4th net, Harry Browning—90-16-74.
5th net, Martin Greene—92-18-74.
6th net,Howard Farrant—89-15-74.
7th net, E. Masciocchi—75-0-75.
8th net, Elmer Puller—106-30-76.
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9th net, Paul Wanberg—104-28-76.
Guest prizes were won by R. Barsanti, 94-25-69; and Peter Carlone,
102-30-72.
Ernest Lord reports bad attacks of
the sod web worm at the Cohasse
Country Club. Kerosene emulsion, as
recommended by the Green Section, was
used for control, and was successful,
the only ill effect being a slight yellowing of the tips of the grass.
A pair of glasses in a case were found
at Wannamoisett the day following our
meeting there. If these belong to any
of our members, owner can procure
same by writing Martin Greene, 8 Ivy
St., East Providence, R. I.

ANNUAL LAWN DAY AT
MASS. STATE COLLEGE

The annual Lawn Day was held at
the Massachusetts State College, Amherst, Mass., on Tuesday, July 26th.
The first speaker was Mr. A. M.
Davis, who spoke on "Why a Good
Lawn, and How I Find Them About the
State". Mr. Davis pointed out that a
lawn gave a feeling of openness, of
freedom. The old settlers brought the
ideas of lawns from England. The desire for openness is expressed in the
commons, which were often in the old
days also drill fialds. The classic example of the open lawn is the Mount
Vernon lawn down to tho Potoma?
River. This lawn is separated from
pastured fields by what is known as a
"ha-ha" wall.
Keeping divisions of lots open gives
a feeling of openness that is not given
by hedges, shrubbery, etc. dividing lots.
The lawn also presents a good, clean,
refreshing color; soft, blending with almost any type of treatment. The lawn
is the most used portion of the home
grounds. The lawn influences the derign of the property. The lawn gives
the base color against which all other
features appear.
In designing lawns, do not clutter
them up with plants; keep the lawn
rreas open so that they can be used.
The use of perspective in designing
gives a feeling of more area.
"A good lawn is a horticultural triumph". There are various factors jtLai
enter into their cuccess.
l awns as I find them have trouble
from watering, as getting no waiei',
light waterings, infrequent waterings,
or soak'ng waterings. There is trouble
"with weeds; the average home-owner
should not worry about weeds unless
too objectionable. Various insects and
diseases cause trouble. Shade is probably the worst offender.
Lawns are quite essential for the
satisfactory development of any property, but there are many problems to
maintain good lawns.
Professor Lawrence S. Dickinson
gave an interesting talk on "Experiences in Turf Growing", and described
various troubles he had been called
iiuon to treat, and treatments given.
Watering is often overdone. Poor seed
is often a reason for lack of success.
If 40% is grass, feed; if less, tear up
and reseed.

Bent greens fertilized nine consecutive years with ammonium sulphate;
cure was lime.
Stones or planks in lawn may cause
spots that dry out easily.
Poor drainage often causes a great
deal of trouble.
The use of sheep manure right from
pens resulted in weeds and bare spots;
bent grass "hates" sheep manure; sheep
manure also full of weeds.
There is a lot of trouble due to desire
to get it just a little bit better.
For grubs, arsenate of lead, 101b per
1000 square feet, under pressure, if
grub is there.
In fertilizing, organic fertilizers are
to be preferred in lawn work usually.
Nitrogen is for pep, for leaves; Phosphorus for vim, for roots; Potassium
for v i g o r . Use complete fertilizer, more
N, less P, less K.
In weed control, clean out sources
of contamination. With crab grass,
every individual plant must be pulled
out.
In using preseeding fertilizers, use no
inorganic nitrogen; some phosphorus
best.
Lawn mowers should be sharp.
Practically impossible to grow lawn
under beech or pine trees. In cases of
low dense shade, it is better to use
ground covers. In high shade, use fine
leaved fescue and rough stalked meadow, even parts by weight, six or seven
pounds per 1000 sq. ft. Seed in August,
rake leaves as they fall, first year anyway. Have alkaline reaction in soil.
Seeds are of various sizes and
weights. In general the finer the seed,
the longer the life of the turf, except
for reel top. This may often be detected
by price, the lower the price, often the
more red top.
Common sense is to be urged in all
points.
Following lunch, Professor G. M. McClure of Ohio State University discussed
"Lawn Soils". In discussing the fundamentals of soils, Dr. McClure pointed
out that soils are complex, are made up
of countless numbers of particles, in
which there are solutions, bacteria,
fungi. Soils differ in various ways.
Soils originally came from rocks, have
different sized particles. Workability
is concerned with this difference in soil
particles, as the soils differ in workability depending on size of particles
in them.

When judging soil as to organic matter, the amount of moisture must be
taken into consideration.
The waterholding capacity differs in
soils because of their mechanical makeup. The rapidity with which soil will
take off excessive amounts of water is
of great importance.
The texture has a lot to do with root
penetration. The texture also influences
aeration.
The characteristics of a good soil for
lawns or putting greens:

A good physical texture, not sticky
when wet, loose and friable when dry.
It should contain adequate supply of
organic matter.
Organic matter is soil conditioner,
many soils can be improved by the addition of organic material. Organic
material in new work should be
thoroughly mixed with the soil.
To show the differing sizes of soil
particles, Dr. McClure gave out various
tables. Three of these are appended:

T A B L E 1.
T h e S i z e of S o i l P a r t i c l e s a s a B a s i s f o r C l a s s i f i c a t i o n

Name
Coarse sand
Medium sand
Fine sand
Very fine sand
Silt
Clay
Colloidal clay

Microns
1000-500
500-250
250-100
100- 50
50- 5
5- 1
1-smaller

Diameter

Inches
0.04-0.02
0.02-0.01
0.01-0.004
0.004-0.002
0.002-0.0002
0.0002-0.00004
0.00004-smaller

T A B L E 2.
S o m e P r o p e r t i e s of Soil P a r t i c l e s a s R e l a t e d t o T h e i r S i z e

Very Fine
Sand
Diameter in microns
100
Number of spherical particles
in a volume of 1 cu. m.m.| 1000
Surface in acres of particles
contained in 1 cu. ft.
0.22
* 1 cu. in. contains 16,400 cu. m.m.

Silt
50

Clay
5

8000

80000

0.44

4.4

Colloidal
Clay
1
1 billion
22

T A B L E 3.
T h e E f f e c t of T e x t u r e o n t h e R e l a t i v e C a p a c i t y of S o i l s t o H o l d W a t e r

Soil
Clay
Clay Loam
Silt Loam
Loam
Fine Sandy Loam
Coarse Sand

Relative Capacity to Hold Water
100
85
64
49
18
12

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Oh, here and there red roosters still
are holding sales positions;
They cannot do much now, because of
conditions.
(A Worthwhile Editorial Selected by Butpoor
soon as things get right again they'll
the National Editorial Ass'n.)
sell a hundred firms—
Meanwhile the old black hens are out
and gobbling up the worms.
Said the little red rooster, "Gosh all
—Journal, McComb, Mississippi.
hemlock, Things are tough,
Seems that worms are getting scarcer, P. S. Read the last verse over again.
and I cannot find enough.
Are you a RED R O O S T E R ?
What's become of all those fat ones
is a mystery to me;
There were thousands through the rainy
Prospective members about 1950 or
spell—but now where can they be?"
so are Michael O'Grady, Jr., born February 28, 1932, and Paul Wanberg, Jr.,
The old black hen hopped to her perch, born
April 20, 1932.
and dropped her eyes to sleep,
She had gone through lots of dry spells,
The June meeting of the Rhode Isshe had lived through floods of rain—
Greenkeepers Association was held
So she flew up on the grindstone, and land
at the Wanumetonemy Golf Club, Newshe gave her claws a whet,
port, on June 20th. There were 21
As she said, "I've never seen the time present.
A Golf Committee was elected
there weren't worms to get."
to consist of Messrs. Peckham, Galvin,
Hay, and Greene. Directors elected for
She pecked a new and undug spot; the the
coming year are Messrs. Mullaney,
earth was hard and firm.
The little rooster jeered: "New ground Yule, Peckham, Chapman, Cottelle.
—that's no place for a worm."
For those "blessed" with blind holes,
The old black hen just spread her feet. where
a direction flag is used in the
She dug both fast and free;
center of the fairway, it is a good plan
"I must go to the worms", she said: to
sink a two foot length of inch and a
"the worms won't come to me."
quarter pipe vertically into the ground,
the upper inch about a half inch
The rooster vainly spent his day— with
below the surface of the ground, and
through habit, by the way—
use this pipe as a socket for the flag
Where fat, round worms had passed in pole.
The tractor driver then has litt.e
squads back in the rainy days,
trouble in removing and replacing the
When nightfall found him supperless he pole, when cutting the fairway, and the
growled in accents rough;
pole is held securely when strong winds
"I'm hungry as a fowl can be—condi- blow.
tions sure are tough."
The Directors held a mseang with
He tui'ned then to the old black hen President
McCormack on June 2'7th at
and said, "It's worse with you,
For you're not only hungry but you're Unicorn.
tired too.
I rested while I watched for worms,
TOO WELL BRED
and so I feel fairly perk;
The
patience
which many of our well
But how are you without worms, and intentioned public
officials show in
after all that work?"
pushing this and that plan to change
over the world instanter, reminded a
The old black hen hopped to her perch; caller of the following story:
"There was a young woman in my
and dropped her eyes to sleep,
town who had been very very
And murmured in a drowsy tone, home
carefully brought up, shielded from the
"Young man, hear this and weep;
almost cloistered. She married.
I'm full of worms and happy, for I've world,
The
morning
after the wedding she
dined both long and well;
looked around the room and exclaimed:
The worms are there as always, but I "Why, where is baby?' "
had to dig like hell!"
—Nation's Business.
ARE YOU A RED

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Next - Door Shopping

1 were

idly listening to a mid-Western program when we
w
heard a voice say, "I am one of those women who do
not like to worry about their food purchases." There it was—our text,

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almost our whole sermon.
For there is but one answer to the question as to how such worries
may be avoided: by buying only those food products whose quality is
guaranteed by manufacturers who have a reputation to sustain—who are
doing business at a fair profit and who will not cheat their customers to
maintain that profit. There is no well-known manufacturer today who
reached that position overnight; he has kept the faith through long years
of striving for public confidence. And no manufacturer who is worthy
of such confidence is going to be foolish enough, even in times like these,
to try to maintain his business by cheapening his product—and his name.
If he goes down, it will be with banners flying, and you can purchase the
last product that carries that name with the same assurance that it will
be good that you would have if he were carrying on. For even a panic
can not change truth: a good name is still more to be desired than
great riches.
It goes without saying that the kind of manufacturer we are talking
about deserves your steady patronage. The little that you will save by
buying at what the Editor of Harper's Bazaar calls "speakeasy shops" will
not profit you in the long run. Prices of good goods are as low today
as they can possibly be and yield maker and seller a legitimate profit.
Lower prices mean one of two things: a forced sale or an inferior product.
And since we have about reached the end of forced sales, price cutting
will more and more mean quality cutting as well. Every time you encourage the quality cutter, in the mistaken notion that you are saving
money, you are making it just that much harder for the manufacturers
who will cut prices only as much as they can and still maintain their
standard—and most of the national advertisers are to be found in that
group.
Because we started out with a quotation about food purchases, you
may think we are talking only about foods. Not at all. The deceptions,
the quality cutting, in other fields are probably greater than they could
possibly be in foods. After all, we do have a Pure Food Law; certain
regulations must be obeyed. But only your own taste—or gullibility—
sets the limit in most other fields. You may buy a suit of pure shoddy—
and it is your own lookout. You may buy shoes with paper soles—and you
have no redress. You may buy a dress that looks good in the shop, but
isn't worth carrying home—and no one can deny you that privilege. But
your own good sense should tell you that these things do not pay.
We are not urging you to pay only high prices; we are merely aslr.ng
that you look at the absurdly low prices for what they almost invariably
are: an indication, if not a proof, of inferiority—an inferiority that makes
the articles purchased quite expensive in the end. If you must buy cheaply, try your own store before turning into the "speakeasy shop"; if you
can still afford the best, don't help to drive our established trade-marked
goods off the market by trying to save a few pennies, or even a few
dollars, on goods that bear no maker's name. Either way, that is not
good business.
A fitter in one of the better-known shops for men recently chided a
customer for not bringing back to the shop some clothing that needed a
few seams let out. "You know," said he, "we stand by our things for any
service that they need as long as you are wearing them." We're working
back to better times, when the demand will again be for better things and
better service. We can hasten the coming of those times by not overlooking the value of good things and good service now.
William Frederick Bigelow, Editor—"Good Housekeeping."
Reprinted by special permission of the International Magazine Co., N. Y.

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