President—
JOSEPH B U T L E R
U n i t e d Shoe Country Club
3 Ridgewood Terrace
Beverly, Mass.
P h o n e WA 2 1263
First Vice-President—
LEON V. ST P I E R R E
Longmeadow Country Club
5L F e n w o o d Road
L o n g m e a d o w 6, M a s s .
P h o n e LO 7 5 5 6 2
Second V i c e P r e s i d e n t —
A N T H O N Y D. C A R A N C I , JR.
l.edgemont Country Club
22 H i l l v i e w D r i v e
N o r t h P r o v i d e n c e 4, R . I .
P h o n e PA 3 1688

Secretary—
JOHN C A L L A H A N
Spring Valley Country Club
194 E d g e h i l l Road
Sharon, Mass.
P h o n e SU 4 6370

Trustee—
W I L L I A M ASH
Allendale Country Cluh
P h o n e WY 3 8767
9 Patton Street
N o . D a r t m o u t h , Mass

Treasurer—
A R T H U R L. CODY
W o l l a s t o n Golf Club
P h o n e S u p t . O f f i c e at c l u b
G R a n i t e 2-3535
H o m e G R a n i t e 2-7913
19 A r d e l l S t r e e t
N o r t h Quincy, Mass.
Trustee—
A L B E R T L. A L L E N
Kernwood Country Club
P h o n e PI 4 7783
Kernwood Country Club
S a l e m , Mass

Trustee—
JOHN K E A L T Y
The C o u n t r y C l u b
209 W. P l a i n S t r e e t
C o c h i t u a t e , Mass
- P h o n e OL 3 1 4 0 8
Finance C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m a n GEORGE R O M M E I L
Hyannisport Cluh
P h o n e SP 5 - 2 4 1 9
169 G o s n o l d S t r e e t
Hyannis, Mass.

Educational Committee C h a i r m a n THOMAS CURRAN
Oak H i l l C o u n t r y C l u b
P h o n e Dl 2 9198
37 P a r k e r S t r e e t
Fitchburg,. Mass.
Golf C o m m i t t e e C h a i r m a n —
EDWARD J. M U R P H Y
Lexington Country Club
194 O x b o w Road
Wayland, Mass.
Newsletter Committee Chairman
R I C H A R D C. B L A K E
Mt. Pleasant Country Club
P h o n e 869-2737
211 Sewall Street
Boylston, Mass.
Past P r e s i d e n t —
N. J. S P E R A N D I O
Concord Country Club
C o n c o r d , M a s s .Phone EM 9 47^3

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June Meeting
The June meeting was held June 1, 1964
at Pleasant Valley Country Club, Sutton,
Mass.
This was a joint meeting with the Rhode
Island and Connecticut Golf Course Supts.
Associations. There were 129 present for
lunch and several more arrived after lunch.
Herb Berg Supt. conducted a tour of the
course explaining the entire operation. Of
special interest was the irrigation system
and fertilizer injection system. Below -are
listed some notes sent to the editor by the
host Supt:
At the time of the Superintendents visit,
approximately 15# of 12-4-8 per 1000
square feet had been applied in two applications to the greens, 10# of 12-4-8 to
tees and fairways. Uran 30 (liquid nitrogen) was being injected at approximately
1/7 gallon of Uran to 1000 gallons of
water, or slightly less than 1/2 pound of
actual N per 1000 gallons of water.
Total actual N applied dry and through
watering at the time of visit was approximately 2-1/2 pounds per 1000square feet
on greens, 1-3/4 pounds on tees and
1 - 3 / 4 pounds on fairways.
Our diesel pumps deliver 800 gallons per
minute.
Greens had all been vertified and top
dressed the week before the visit — 1/4"
spoons were used.
At the present time we have 36 golf cars.
RESULTS OF GOLF TOURNAMENT
— Callaway System
1st low gross — Gill Carter
- 80
1st low net — Sam Mitchell, Sr. - 71
2nd low net — Milt Brown
— 72
Mel Wendall
- 72
T h e Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Pesticides Board recently issued Rules &
Regulations regarding use of pesticides.
This law to date has no number or other
identification but is effective and licenses
must be taken out before February 1, 1965.
Information regards these laws will be published when available.

sQddociation-.

The Golf Course Supt. Assoc. of New
England and the Mass. Turf & Lawn Grass
Council will have the most prominent display area at the Massachusetts Building at
the Eastern States Exposition in September,
1964.
Mr. McNamara, Commissioner of Agriculture and Mr. Reddy, Director of Fairs
for the Commonwealth of Mass. recently
met with Leon St. Pietre and it was decided
that the scene will comprise of one golf hole
made up of real grass, featuring a tee, fairway and green built in front of a background.
The theme of the Mass. Building will be
"Recreation in Massachusetts" with special
-attention on golf and skiing.
—:————
President Butler a p p o i n t e d Leon St.
Pierre as Chairman of a committee to represent the G. C. S. A. of N. E. Committee
members are: Herb Berg, Lou Duval, Tom
Curran and Dick Blake.

Next Meeting

July 13, 1964, Manchester Country Club,
Manchester, N. H.
New Hampshire Turnpike — Take right at
Rte 3, exit to club is 500 yds. on right side
of Rte 3.
No business meeting
Lunch - 12:30
Host Supt. — Ed Buecher
Any guest may play golf with the approval
of the host Supt. but may not participate in
the Supt's. golf tournament.
Please register for golf tournament.
PROPOSED MEETINGS
Aug. 3 Belmont C. C., Supts. Championship Golf Tournament
Sept. 14 Lake Sunapee C. C., N. H.
Oct.
Brae Burn C. C., Supt. - Pro
Tournament
Nov. 2 Blue Rocks C. C. , Cape Cod
Dec. 7 Waltham Field Station, Annual
Meeting
The Rhode Island Turf Field Day will be
held August 26 at Kingston, R. I., sponsored
by the University of Rhode Island and the
R. I. G. C. S. A. Dr. C. R. Skogely urges all
those interested in fine turf to attend.

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There are many ways of expressing concentration — the relative content of an item
~ or substance in another. Per cent is one
part per hundred. The Latin root of this expression is 'per centum'.
But, concentrations of plant nutrients in
soils and plants are often so low that expressing them as parts per million is more
convenient than as parts per hundred. Hence,
the reason for the frequent use of "parts per
million" (ppm) in literature dealing with
plant nutrition and soil fertility.

Several illustrations may make this expression more meaningful.
. . . . 1 ppm is two pounds per acre — soil
to a depth of about six inches weighs
approximately 2 million pounds
. . . . 1 ppm is one teaspoon of soil in 1, 000
pounds of soil
. . . . 100 ppm of manganese in dry matter of
a 125 bu. / a . corn crop (about 15, 000
lb. dry matter) amounts to 1. 5 lb. of
manganese
. . . . 1 ppm is 0. 0001 per cent; or one per
cent is 10, 000 ppm
. . . . 1 ppm is one inch in 16 miles
. . . . 1 ppm is one minute in two years
Even though 1 ppm is a very small amount,
it is a very significant amount in agriculture.
The difference between a fraction of one
ppm of micronutrients in plants may be the
difference between adequacy and deficiency.
The difference between four and 10 ppm
of phosphorus in soil solution may also
mean the difference between adequacy and
deficiency.
National Plant Food Institute

Business Meeting Highlights

Life Is I Mixturs

MEMBERSHIP
The below listed Supts. were accepted as
members:
John J. Petraitis
Supt. Crestwood C. C.
Rehobath, Mass.
Regular member
Richard C. Mitchell Supt. Thorny Lea C. C.
Brockton, Mass.
Associate member
Wayne C. Ripley
Supt. Walpole C. C.
Walpole, Mass.
Associate member
Joseph F. Silk
Supt. Pine Meadows C. C.
Lexington, Mass.
Associate member
Joseph E. Zoppo
Supt. Nashawtuc C. C.
Concord, Mass.
Associate member
An application for Associate membership
was received from:
Dean Robertson
Supt. Bradford C. C.
275 Salem St.
Bradford, Mass.

Sooner or later, a man, if he is wise,
discovers that life is a mixture of good days
and bad; victory and defeat; give and take.
He learns that it doesn't pay to be a sensitive soul; that he should let some things go
over his head like water off a duck's back.
He learns that he who loses his temper usually loses out. He learns that carrying a
chip on his shoulder is the easiest way to
get into a fight. He learns that the quickest
way to become unpopular is to carry tales
and gossip about others. He learns that
buck-passing always turns out to be a boomerang, and that it never pays. He comes to
realize that the business could run perfectly
well without him. He learns that it doesn't
matter so much who gets the credit as long
as the business shows a profit. He learns
that even the janitor is human and that it
doesn't do any harm to smile and say 'Good
Morning', even if it is raining.
Valley of Minneapolis

agriculturally
speaking
PARTS PER MILLION
(PPM)

the editor

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Human Communication
In the course of the day we are constantly
faced with the necessity of communicating
with someone. In order to do this we have
to use words. We hope, and generally assume, that the words we use will stimulate
the same thoughts in the mind of our audience that is in ours.
The odds against us, however, are surprisingly high. Words do not necessarily
have the same meaning to everyone.
Ask several people the meaning of democracy, communism, loyalty, hope or love,
and you will get a variety of conflicting
answers.
it we turn to "the dictionary xor a deiini-"
tion, we quickly discover the truth in a
Walter Lippman remark, "Dictionaries carry
definitions of words, but people carry connotations. " Connotations are the meaning
each one of us attaches to a word depending
upon our own experience. As Humpty Dumpty
said to Alice, "When I use a word, it means
just what I choose it to mean, neither more
nor less."
The dictionaries claim that we have
600, 000 words, but people give them different meanings. We live in a world that is infinite. In order to talk about it, we have to
give many of our words multiple meanings.
We say a horse that runs quickly is fast.
He may also be fast in the stable and not
able to run at all, A woman's dress may
have fast colors that won't run, but if the
dress shrinks she may have to fast in order
to fit into it.

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RICHARD C. BLAKE
M t . Pleasant Country Club
Phone 869-2737
211 Sewall Street
Boylston, Mass.

The rapid change in meaning in such a
simple word is but a sample of what we can
expect in the future. In the field of science
alone, new ideas and concepts are generating at the rate of seven sets of Encyclopedia
Brittanicas every working day — in 60 languages.
A recent study by the University of Minnesota in cooperation with 100 leading industries showed an 80% loss in understanding
as instructions traveled down to the worker
through various supervisory levels. The
loss in dollars was estimated at $600,000.
The problems in human communication
are many. In spite of our most earnest efforts our words are frequently misunderstood, our instructions misinterpreted. In
_any^sitnation, JLack n£-iinders.tandlng_can be
awkward — in business, it can be downright
damaging.
We can try, however, to improve the
margin of error in the daily handling of our
jobs. Here, at Norton Company, when we
have occasion to discuss workproblems with
our fellow-employees or give them instructions, let us make sure that he or she understands the point we are trying to make, the
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of intelligence of our listeners that produces
misunderstanding and error, but rather our
own inability to transfer the meaning of our
own thoughts to another human being. It
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digest and correctly interpret the words we
utter.
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Audio-Visual Service
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