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-April, 1930.

Vol. 2, No. 4.

"Make your chart before you start. Know what you're after before
you start out for it."
We are pleased to note the evident desire of the staff of the
Massachusetts Experiment Station to be of service to us and to all
golfers. All interested in golf should be made to realize the vast
amount of helpful experimental work which the State Experiment
Stations could do, if the money was made available. In addition to
the work carried on at Amherst, the Experiment Station could easily
be made the clearing house and interpreter for all the experimental
work done at the various clubs. We hope that a start may be made
at once on this work.
The Golf Committee has made a good start for the Summer
season by revising the list of handicaps, and printing them in this
issue of the NEWSLETTER. These Summer meetings offer you
opportunities to inspect and play other courses, to meet your fellows
in comradeship, and usually to learn something to help you in your
work. Help yourself and help others by being present as often as
possible this Summer.
When a problem troubles you this Summer, use YOUR club,
ask the Information Committee to help you. This Committee desires
to be of service.

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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

on the executive committee :t me Golf
Service Bureau of N. E., we invitee Mr.
F. C. Hood, Chairman of the Bureau to
be present with us. At this meeting we
discussed the relations of the Golf Service Bureau and the Greenkeepers Club.
Many points of interest were brought
up and we hope that much good will
312 Mt. P l e a s a n t St., Pall River, Mass.
come from this meeting. Even though
meeting was called at rather short
MARSTON BURNETT . Business Mgr. the
notice, the chairmen as well as the
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greenkeepers were out in fine numbers.
We wish at this time to express to
April, 1930.
Vol. 2, No. 4. those present our thanks for their kind
interest.
The foregoing will show, we think,
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
that, at least, we are making a start in
When your president took office he our program ofC.cooperation.
E. Treat, President.
stated that he was anxious to work for
more cooperation between the Greenkeepers' Club and the organizations
working for the betterment of golf in
APRIL MEETING
our section. The following is offered, as
a sort of report of progress along these
The April meeting was held at H: milines. From time to time, your president cultural Hall, Boston, on April 7. At
intends to give to the members direct, the business meeting Philip I. Cassidy
just what the officers and directors are of Needham Country Club and John
trying to do for the Club.
Riley of Stony Brae Country Clu": were
The Club held a special meeting in sleeted Associate Members.
The committee on revision of by-laws
connection with the Golf Show held at
the Massachusetts Agricultural College reported that the revised by-laws would
this last month. We had a good atten- be submitted at the next meeting.
dance at this meeting and we were glad President Treat reported that at a ;: int
to hear Col. John Morley, of Youngs- meeting of the club and the Connettitut
town, Ohio, president of the National Association, it was planned to have a
Association of Greenkeepers of America, joint meeting of the two clubs, probably
who gave the main address. Mr. Fred sometime this Summer.
The resignation of Daniel C. Sncw as
Burkhardt, manager of the golf shows
held by that association spoke as did Trustee was received and accepted with
Pres. Joe Whithead, of Middletown, regret.
The speaker for the meeting was Dr.
Conn., head of the Conn. Greenkeepers
Association. The question-box period Fred J. Sievers, Director of the
which followed was again of great Massachusetts Experiment Station. Director Sievers pointed out the need of
interest.
During this same golf show the experimental work along golf course
Greenkeepers' Club held a joint meeting lines, that the Experiment Station
with the Conn. Greenkeepers Assoc., and exists to serve, there is a willingness on
it was decided at this time that we his part to serve, and that the people
would hold a joint meeting and tourna- of Massachusetts should be aroused to
ment at some club, located centrally, the need of investigational work along
for both organizations. It was quite golf course lines.
A resume of Dr. Sievers' talk follows:
apparent that the Conn, group were as
"In a study of the history of Agrianxious to meet and cooperate as were
we. Plans are already under way to culture, one is especially impressed with
hold a two or three day conference for the fact that the tremendous progress
Greenkeepers and others interested in which this industry has made is confined
golf, under the auspices of the College almost entirely to the last fifty years.
One needs to go back only to the days
next winter.
Just recently your Board of Directors of our grandfathers to find that agriinvited their Greens Committee Chair- cultural practices at that time were
men to an informal dinner and discus- about as primitive as at the beginning
sion at the Woodland Golf Club. Since of the Christian era. Archeologists only
several of the respective chairmen were recently unearthed a stone tablet over

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6,000 years old showing a man milking
a cow. He is depicted as seated behind
the cow. After sixty centuries, the only
change in milking made, before the advent of the milking machine, is that we
moved one-fourth of the way around
the cow and milked her from the lefthand side.
The first teachers in our agricultural
colleges, founded soon after the Civil
war, discovered to their dismay that
they had nothing to teach. The agriculture of that day was so lacking in
scientific foundation that the subject
could not be presented in a logical or
impressive manner. In other words, it
was not teachable; and these early educators found themselves confronted with
the necessity of doing investigational
work before they could present the subject matter of agriculture in the classroom with any degree of enthusiasm
or effectiveness. It was not enough to
know "how" and "when", but he had to
know "why" also; and, although the
former might be gained by experience,
it is difficult to impress any one else with
the value of certain experiences unless
the story possesses the logic that depends on knowing "why"—and "why"
can be answered only through investigation. Thus agricultural investigational
work began and soon was supported
financially by both federal and state
funds, until today we see established in
every state in the Union a well organized Agricultural Experiment Station.
The results of the activities and findings of these stations, when injected into the actual business of farming, became evident in making for greaterefficiency. Of this greater efficiency
there are many illustrations, but, without citing any in detail, it is perhaps as
impressive to state that with an ever
increasing population we have today in
this country less farmers and less land
under cultivation than we had twenty
years ago. Instead of requiring all of
the labor of our total population to
supply us with the essentials of food,
clothing and shelter, as was the case less
than one hundred years ago, we have
only one-third of our labor so employed
at present. Because of our greater
efficiency it has been possible to release
the labor of the remaining two-thirds
for the purpose of supplying us with
what would have been considered
luxuries in our grandfather's time.
Your work as greenkeepers is in a
large part agricultural and should be
responsive to the same type of investi-

gational work. Such investigational work
has not been done and, therefore, whatever scientific methods you have in
your practices have been very largely
adapted from general research in the
field of soils and field crops. That
much more could be accomplished here
if research efforts were directed more
definitely toward your specific problems
is self-evident. Any practice that has no
sound basis of scientific background is
bound to be wasteful and therefore
difficult to justify in the present day
and age. I am sure that many of the
practices at present followed in your
profession are more extravagant than
they need to be in spite of the fact that
you have done more than your share
toward putting greens keeping on a
scientific basis. What you need is organized research.
The Agricultural Experiment Station
has not been in a position where it
could volunteer much service because
golfing and the maintenance of golf
courses are distinctly in the field of
luxury and recreation, and there is
naturally a hesitancy in using public
funds for this purpose in spite of the
fact that the recreational side of our
lives is fast becoming of increasing importance. It occurs to me that if the
interests which you represent could be
awakened to the fact that it would be
a matter of great economy to support a
research program in this field they
might be willing to make the first move
and set aside a certain sum of money
for that purpose. In our organization
we are at present manned so that we
could easily furnish the direction that
the investigators should take, and we
could also organize and interpret the
results so that they could be applied to
any New England conditions. If cooperation with your organization would
be perfected, and thus furnish at least
a temporary solution of. the financial
handicap with which this work is at
present confronted, it is hoped that the
means would be thus supplied for the
development of a sound investigational
program, for which public funds can
later be justified."
STEAMING

LOAM

I have heard the process of steaming
loam criticised by different authorities
on turf and greenkeeping. Others I
have talked with feel much the same as

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I do about this steaming process, but
cannot get their club members or chairmen interested.
My experience with this steaming of
loam covers only four years or seasons,
but I have in this short period seen a
marked difference in the cleaniness of
my greens. Before we started steaming
loam it was necessary for me to have
men weeding greens; this is an eyesore,
and we have now eliminated such
worries!
I have given this process of steaming
a strict test, and have found by experimenting that 99% of all weed seed are
killed. I also believe that most of the
weed seed are planted with the compost
dressing and a very small amount is
blown on the greens from the fairways
and rough.
I cannot say that this sterilization
process has made our greens immune
from brown-patch, as I have my
troubles during that season, but I believe it helps, as the attacks are never
serious.
In the steaming of loam it is
necessary to have a good equipment, and
to make it as economically as possible.
We have an upright boiler (housed in),
capable of 200 pounds steam pressure,
but 80 pounds is all that is required to
start the steaming or cooking. The box
I have built to hold the loam has a
cement floor and a waterproof cover;
this is essential as the loam is left in
the box two or three days to cool and
dry. There are five six foot lengths of
inch and quarter pipe leading from a
header with holes about every inch
through which the steam is forced. In
order to steam four yards of loam and
get results, about two hours time is required.
The cost of steaming for the season
is very small considering that it is not
necessary to have men on my greens
weeding. There is always plenty of dead
wood in cleaning up a golf course, sufficient to fire the boiler each season.
Those interested in this steaming process of sterilization of compost can inspect our plant at Weston at any time.
Paul G. Wanberg,
Weston Country Club.

H O W ABOUT IT?

Shall we have a Greenkeeper-Green
Chairman tournament this Summer?
Have you visited the demonstration
plots at the Charles River Country
Club this Spring?
What is the best grass for fairways,
on sandy soil? on clay soil?
If you contemplate changing your
greens to bent, what method will you
use? What variety of bent? Seed, or
stolons?
Did you experiment with lime and its
effect on brown-patch this past season? .
What were your experiences?
Is your compost free of fungus
diseases and insect pests?
Why should fertilizers be uniformly
distributed? Do they move laterally in
the soil?
Are you reforesting your waste areas
of property not in use?
Are you encouraging the birds to
nest on your course?

INFORMATION

COMMITTEE

The Information Ce remittee. as
appointed by President Treat. ::nsists
of Prank H. Wilson. Jr. as chairman,
John Shanahan, Guy C. West. Thsnias
Fahey, and Howard Farrant.
All questions should be sent to the
chairman at the Charles River Country
Club, Newton Centre, disss. Mr. Wilson
at the April meeting asked for cooperation from all members to help this
committee with any information at hand.
This committee will help you with
your problems. If the committee does
not know the answer to your question,
it will know w here help may be secured.
The committee will keep much information filed, where it may be secured by
writing the chairman.
With your help this committee will
prove to be one of the greatest forward
steps which the club has ever taken!
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ECHOES FROM THE GOLF SHOW
AT AMHERST

ent was par—and conforms with Bobby
Jones' golf language, so eloquently
quoted by W. E. Woodward in the recent issue of the American Magazine—
"I must simply try to beat par. If I'm
better than the average, I win." What
a licking envy and jealousy would take!
And what energy now spent in watching
the other fellow would be released for
real, honest-to-goodness work! Jones
states he used to play against people;
now he never plays against people; his
opponent is par. He simply tries to beat
par.
In banking and in golf and in every
activity, there is a standard. It's often ^»s
difficult to keep your eye on the ball. If
Babe Ruth kept surveying his competitors and "pressing" every time he came
to the bat, his average would be poor.
Ruth keeps his own score—always knows
where he is, and "times" his hits. Hence
a record each year—and the greatest
drawing card in the game of baseball.
Keep your eye on your own game; let
the other fellow play his. It brings the
great results, the best averages—and
also peace of mind.
A tomb-stone in a churchyard in Scotland bears this simple inscription— "He
averaged well for this vicinity."
Harriman National Bank, New York.

"The Welcome to Greenkeepers was
not as 'green' as the sign indicated."
" 'Gene' did some job with his grass,
didn't he? Some clever—some work!"
"Was that a picture of Pres. Treat
that was made out of grass?"
"For the Love of Mike, do they use
all those kind of seeds in golf work?"
"That sure is a great stunt of having
those different kind of grasses growing."
"Those boxes of grass sure show the
results of the different fertilizers used."
"Say, these fellows know their seeds".
"Isn't that model of a golf course
interesting."
"Greenkeeping is a profession after
all."
"What a delight it is to be relieved of
some of the high-pressure-salesmanship
talk at a golf show."
"The show was fine—the best yet."
"The students in the Course for Greenkeepers sure know their stuff—if this
is a sample of what they can learn here,
GRASS SEEDS FOR GOLF
lead me to it."
From the president of a large mowing
equipment concern—"To my mind this
Extreme Purity Necessary
is one of the greatest golf shows held in
A club annually spends a large sum
this Country."
for the purpose of removing weeds from
Observer.
greens, tees, and, in some cases, fairways. The seeds from which these
weeds spring may be already in the
soil, and they further may be washed
THE AVERAGE MAN
onto the green, blown onto the green,
and deposited there by birds or other
agencies. It is obviously unwise to add
Announcing' the details of his recent to these weeds which ordinarily find
successful combination in banking, which their way on to a golf course, by sowing
brought the Equitable and Inter-State more weed seeds—in other words, by
Trust Companies into the Chase Nation- sowing grass seeds which could, by dint
al Bank, Albert H. Wiggin is reported of a little more care and trouble, be
to have very modestly asked newspaper- made freer of weed seeds. No golf club
men not to publish the enlarged need ever sow seeds which have not been
Chase as the BIGGEST bank, but to cleaned and recleaned to the highest desay that it was the BEST bank. Mr. gree of purity. Such seeds cost a few
Wiggin was not competing with any cents per pound more than commercial
other bank—not trying to do better than stocks, but such a slight extra charge is
the fellow at the next desk. His oppon- offset again and again by the saving in

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the club's labor bill for weeding. Further,
you will invariably get more seeds of the
kind you want in a pound of seed that
has been thouroughly recleaned than you
will from seeds that have not been so
thoroughly purified, because along with
the weed seeds, empty husks and other
materials are withdrawn by the cleaning.
Very often the highest-priced seed is
really cheaper (by actual count of
seeds) than lower-priced seed.
Stumpp & Walter's
From—
"Golf Turf"

It was voted to hold the first meeting
at Albemarle Country Club May 5, and
to notify the secretary of this meeting.
It was voted that the majority of the
prizes be net.
It was the concensus of opinion to
have one meeting in or around a club at
Rhode Island and one near the N. H.
line.
It was recommended that the June
meeting be a meeting of the greenkeepers and their chairman.
Voted to adjourn at 2 o'clock.
Respectfully submitted,
Clifton E. Sowerby,
Robert Mitchell is building a new
Chairman Golf Committee.
double tennis court at Kernwood.
The Board of Directors met on March
31, at the Woodland Golf Club.
Howard Farrant is busy blasting out
COMMON SENSE
a ledge of puddingstone (two weeks'
blasting), to raise the Clyde ninth green
at the Country Club. This work will
a new thought is launched,
also put the green more to right and weWhenever
immediately set up two sides, pro
lengthen the hole.
and con. When this new thought comes
A new nine holes is being added at from sources all ready in question it is
Marshfield to the present layout. More only natural that the arguments for and
against are strong, for convictions are
work for our friend Maxwell!
likewise strong and possibly tinged with
Martin Greene solved the trespassing prejudice.
problem in part by erecting wire mesh
For proof of the above we need look
fences at the club boundaries at Wanna- only as far as the March News Letter
moisett this past Winter.
to the report of Professor Dickinson's
talk on "Brown-patch" and Mr. Ohlson's
Mike O'Grady has been busy at New article
"Johnny On The Spot."
Bedford since his return from Ireland
We know that Professor Dickinson's
the last of February. He has built a new work
has been carried
large first tee, straightening the line of on overon a Brown-patch
long enough period so that
play.
criticism on the ground of hasty conclusions cannot be made. We also know
that Professor Dickinson has checked
this work in the laboratory under conA meeting of the Golf committee of trolled conditions and received concluthe Greenkeepers Club of New England sive confirmation of his own field work
was held April 7, 1930 at 1:30 o'clock in and the observations and opinions of
Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass.
Greenskeepers.
Mr. Ohlson is voiceing not only his own
It was voted that merchandise prizes opinion,
but the opinion of a great many
be given instead of money at the tourna- Greenskeepers.
For this he deserves
ments in 1930.
considerable credit, in that he feels that
are worthy of
It was voted to recommend the above his honest convictions
and so they are. His years
motion to the general club meeting for publication,
of practical experience give him a solid
discussion and approval.
background for these opinions and an
It was voted that the handicaps be expression of one's honest convictions is
revised and a copy sent to the news always desirable and valuable.
editor.
It is not my intention to enter the

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controversial side of this question at all
but my feeling is, after hearing Professor Dickinson, then reading the report of his talk, and then considering
Mr. Ohlson's article, that in all phases
of our work COMMON SENSE must
be applied. Immediate and definite
opinions for or against a new thought
make for an attitude decidedly unwise,
and not likely to be helpful to us in
solving our individual problems.
Thought on any subject is always
helpful and most certainly this airing
the pros and cons of Brown Patch control has caused us all to think, and if
we follow the Middle Ground of Common
Sense we will have helped ourselves and
our Golf Courses.
Charles W. Parker.
We are glad to receive this discussion
of a subject reported in the last NEWSLETTER. We hope that any member
will feel free to send us his reaction to
any article printed in any NEWSLETTER. We aim to present you a
clearing house and forum for community
problems and interests.
Editor.
Any members whose clubs are available for Summer meetings should notify
the chairman of the Golf Committee,
Mr. Clifton Sowerby, 2 Stow Road,
Marlboro, Mass., at once.
HANDICAP LIST OF MEMBERS
GREENKEEPERS CLUB OF
NEW ENGLAND

Eben L. Adams
Jacob C. Adams
Arthur E. Anderson
Peter Bracken
Thomas Brennan
William Bryden
Marston Burnett
Everett Capello
Albert G. Clark
John Clinton
John L. Counsell

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Dennis Crowley
Thomas Fahey
Howard Farrant
James Ferme
John J. Fitzpatrick
Valentine Flood
Paul Fredette
Elmer Fuller
Thomas Galvin
Thomas F. Grady
John A. F. Graham
Martin M. Greene
Albert E. Hall
William E. Hannigher
Owen Hensberry
Christian Hansen
Edwin Hansen
Lawrence Hay
Paul F. Hayden
James Holden
John T. Johnson
John S. Latvis
James Lawson
W. S. Lindsay
Ernest B. Lord
Robert G. MacAndrew
James M'Cormack
William J. McBride
John McDonough
Bernard A. McLaughlin
Louis Marrato
S. L. Martinage
M. D. Maxwell
R. A. Mitchell
Herbert J. Moran
Harold A. Mosher
Michael J. O'Grady
Alex Ohlson
Charles O'Keefe
Thomas O'Leary
Joseph Oldfield
Charles "W. Parker
Wm. W. Partridge
R. Wallace Peckham
Geno Pettizoni
Elliot D. Pierce
Earl Polhamus
Roland F. Robinson
John Shanahan
Joseph F. Sheridan
Clifton E. Sowerby
Lloyd G. Stott
James Sullivan
Patrick S. Sullivan
T. W. Swanson
Patrick Tameo
Dalbert T. Theall
Carlton E. Treat
George Volmer
Paul G. Wanberg
William Welsh
Guy C. West
Frank H. Wilson, Jr.

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Dr. Basil B. Brook, Horticulturist a n d
Specialist in Turf Maintenance, Golf
Courses, P a r k , etc. who h a s c h a r g e of
the Golf Churse on the f a m o u s Davis
Islands, T a m p a , Florida, writes a s follows:

" F o r a c o n s i d e r a b l e t i m e I h a v e been
very carefully studying, testing
and
c h e c k i n g up w i t h Colloidal P h o s p h a t e
upon the greens. R e s u l t s have been so
r e m a r k a b l y good I a m c o n v i n c e d t h a t
w e have in Colloidal P h o s p h a t e a p l a n t
food t h a t g r e e n - k e e p e r s should be f u l l y
a c q u a i n t e d w i t h , as it w i l l fill a gap
in his f e r t i l i z e r p r o g r a m t h a t has a l w a y s been v a c a n t .
" T h e g r e e n - k e e p e r w h o uses s u l p h a t e
of a m m o n i a l a r g e l y , w i l l find t h a t by
a d d i n g Colloidal P h o s p h a t e to t h e diet
of his greens, a lot of his w o r r i e s w i l l
be over.
" T o those w h o have stopped using sulp h a t e of a m m o n i a because of its a f t e r
effects, I w i l l say, t r y a g a i n , b u t use
Colloidal P h o s p h a t e in c o n j u n c t i o n w i t h
t h e s u l p h a t e and you w i l l be m o r e t h a n
pleased, t h a t you c a n a g a i n use t h e
old s t a n d - b y and h a v e cured h i m of
his f a u l t s .
" I m i g h t c o n t i n u e i n d e f i n i t e l y to e n l a r g e
upon t h e s u b j e c t f r o m m a n y angles. I
am
sure
that
Superintendents
and
g r e e n - k e e p e r s of p a r k s and golf courses
w i l l be j u s t as e n t h u s i a s t i c as m y s e l f
a f t e r using t h i s Colloidal p l a n t food. If
I c a n help you in a n y w a y to get a c quainted
with
Colloidal
Phosphate,
write me."
(Signed)
B. B. B r o o k ,
Golf C o u r s e ,
D a v i s Islands, F l o r i d a .

JACOBSEN
POWER MOWERS
for
GREENS,
TEES,
APPROACHES
Catalog mailed on request.

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