Northwest

Vol. 29, No. 2

TURFGRASS TOPICS

September 1986

PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON

PROGRAM
40TH NORTHWEST
TURFGRASS
ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

The 40th Northwest Turfgrass Association Conference will
be held at the Red Lion Inn at Pasco, Washington, on September 22-25, 1986. The following is a program that has been developed by your Program Committee which we think will serve
the needs of anyone in the turfgrass management industry.
MONDAY, September 22

PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Greetings!
It is less than a month until the 40th Annual Conference of
the Northwest Turfgrass Association convenes in Pasco,
Washington, September 22-25. It has been "Forty years of
growing", and in this year since our last conference, we have
| seen our membership grow as a result of increasing awareness
in the Northwest Turfgrass Association.
At this year's conference in the Tri Cities, you will enjoy
a first-rate program of educational speakers, the largest supplier
show yet, and a format of interesting social functions.
As you make plans to attend and are sending in your preregistration materials, give some serious thought to cordially
inviting another fellow professional to attend the conference as
well.
Our Association holds the record for continuous conferences
in the United States and is an Association that you can be proud
of to invite others to join.
With the media focus recently aimed at chemical use in the
"green industry", now is the time to become more involved
in our Northwest turfgrass community through an active
membership in the Northwest Turfgrass Association.
The demographics of our region will support an everincreasing attendance at our conferences, but it is we who must
continually seek interested people to join. The larger our
membership becomes, the stronger the benefits of our
Association will be.
Literally, millions of Northwest citizens enjoy the use of our
turfgrass areas and certainly one of the best sources of technical
advice is through our Association.
Thank you for your support. I look forward to seeing you
and a new member at the Pasco Conference.
Pesticide Re-certification
Credits will be available for
Washington & Oregon registered attenders.

00 a.m.
30-4:30
00 p.m.

Men's Golf Tournament
Registration
No Host Bar at Poolside followed by Western
Barbecue and Golf Awards.
TUESDAY, September 23
GENERAL SESSION - Chair, Tom Cook
7:30-8:00 am Registration
8:00-8:15
Welcome and opening remarks
8:15-8:45
Recent Observations on the Role of Potassium in
Turfgrass Performance" Dr. Robert Shearman,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
8:45-9:10
'Understanding Lime and its Effects on Soil and
Turfgrasses", Dr. Roy Goss, Washington State
University, Puyallup, WA
9:10-9:50
How We Kill Plants", Dr. Robert Partyka,
Chemlawn Services Corporation, Columbus, OH
9:50-10:30
"Will Growth Regulators Ever Work for Us?",
Dr. John Kaufmann, Monsanto Ag Products
Division, St. Louis, MO
10:30-10:50
Break
SPLIT SESSION A - Session Chair, Roy Goss
10:50-11:20 am "Critical Elements Affecting a Drainage System",
Mr. Carl Kuhn, P.E., C.H. Kuhn and Associates,
Mercer Island, WA
11:20-11:50
"Understanding Properties and Uses of
Geotextiles", Mr. Gary Anderson, E.I. Dupont
Company, Wilmington, DE
11:50-12:30
"Efficient Use of Fungicides", Dr. Richard
Smiley, Oregon State University, Pendleton, OR
12:30-1:00 pm "Lesser Known Pathogens of Putting Turf', Dr.
Gary Chastagner, Washington State University,
Puyallup, WA
SPLIT SESSION B - Session Chair, Dennis Pagni
10:50-11:20 am "What are Good Seed Specifications?", Dr. Bill
Meyer, Pure Seed Testing Inc., Hubbard, OR
11:20-11:50
"Tips on Maintaining Baseball Infields", Mr.
Mike Hebrard, Hobbs & Hopkins, Inc., Portland,
OR
11:50-12:20
"Measuring Sprinkler Application Uniformity",
Mr. Richard Regan, Oregon State University,
Salem, OR
12:20-1:00 pm "Strategies for Using Herbicides in a Hostile
Environment", Mr. Tim Rhay, Eugene Parks
Department, Eugene, OR
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HANDS-ON SESSION
2:30-4:00 pm "Measuring Sprinkler Application", Mr. Richard
Regan, Oregon State University, Salem, OR
2:30-4:00
"How to Line Out and True Up a Baseball
Infield", Mr. Mike Hebrard, Hobbs & Hopkins
Inc., Portland, OR
2:30-4:00
Equipment Demonstrations
4:00-7:00
Product and Equipment Show
WEDNESDAY, September 24
SPLIT SESSION A -Session Chair, Bo Hepler
8:30-9:00 am "Fine Fescues - What's Their Place in Park and
School Grounds?", Dr. Bill Meyer, Pure Seed
Testing, Hubbard, OR
"Successful Low Budget Renovation of Athletic
9:00-9:30
Fields", Mr. Dennis Johnson, Southern Oregon
State College, Ashland, OR
"Selection and Early Maintenance of Trees for
9:30-10:00
Streets, Parks, and Grounds", Mrs. Pat Elder,
Seattle Parks Department, Seattle, WA
Break
10:00-10:20
"Mimicking Symptoms - Is it Really Herbicide
10:20-11:00
Damage?", Dr. Robert Partyka, Chemlawn
Services Corporation, Columbus OH
"Experiences With Sand Base Turf in Lithia
11:00-11:30
Park", Mr. Ken Myckleson, Ashland, OR
"A Practical Topdressing Program for Parks",
11:30-12:10
Mr. Kay Kinyon, Lake Oswego Parks
Department, Lake Oswego, OR
12:10-12:30
Sessions merge
SPLIT SESSION B - Session Chair, Mike Kingsley
8:30-9:00 am "Pumps: Their Purpose and Problems", Mr. Carl
Kuhn, P.E., C.H. Kuhn and Associates, Mercer
Island, WA
"Pumps: Their Care and Maintenance", Mr.
9:00-9:30
Wayne Olson, Pumptech, Inc., Bellevue, WA.
"Confessions of a USGA Agronomist", Mr. Larry
9:30-10:00
Gilhuly, USGA Green Section, Placentia, CA
Break
10:00-10:20
"Fungicide Effects on Thatch and Disease", Dr.
10:20-11:00
Richard Smiley, Oregon State University,
Pendleton, OR
"Bunker Design, Layout, and Construction", Mr.
11:00-11:20
John Steidel, Kennewick, WA
"Is Contour Mowing Here to Stay?", Mr. John
11:20-11:40
Ford, Tacoma Country and Golf Club, Tacoma,
WA
"Rubigan Effects on Annual Bluegrass", Dr. Bill
11:40-12:10
Johnston, Washington State University, Pullman,
WA
12:10-12:30 pm Sessions merge
12:30-1:00
Northwest Turfgrass Association General Business
Meeting All members should definitely attend
No host bar
6:30-7:30
Banquet Dancing after banquet
7:30
THURSDAY, September 25
GENERAL SESSION - Chair, Gene Howe
8:30-9:00 am "How Does Aerification Affect Thatch and
Compaction?", Dr. Robert Shearman, University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
9:00-9:20
"Snowmold and Perennial Ryegrass - Effects of
Cultivars, Mowing Height, and Fertility", Dr.
Bill Johnston, Washington State University,
Pullman, WA
9:20-9:40
"Influence of newer preemergence herbicides on
turfgrass quality and rooting", Dr. Stan Brauen,
Washington State University, Puyallup, WA
9:40-10:00
"Fungicidal Control of Necrotic Ringspot", Dr.
Gary Chastagner, Washington State University,
Puyallup, WA

10:00-10:20
10:20-11:00

11:00-11:40
11:40-12:00
12:00

Break
"Characteristics and Uses for Wild Flowers in
Landscapes", Mrs. Crystal Rose-Fricker, Pure
Seed Testing Inc., Hubbard, OR
"Some Practical Tips on Pruning Shrubs and
Trees", Mr. Tom Cook, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR
"Questions From the Floor"
Meeting adjourned

LADIES PROGRAM

MONDAY, September 22, 1986
10:00 a.m.
Brunch and Fashion Show
TUESDAY, September 23, 1986
8:00 -9:30
Hospitality Room, Coffee, Tea and Danish
Available
10:00 a.m.
Mexican Scramble Golf Tournament at Tri Cities
Country Club. The Tournament Fee also includes
golf carts. This tournament was such great fun
last year, we thought we would repeat the
Mexican Scramble this year.
WEDNESDAY, September 24, 1986
8:00 -9:30
Hospitality Room, Coffee, Tea and Danish
Available
9:15
Tour to Richland Science Center and Preston
Winery tour and lunch.
THURSDAY, September 25, 1986
9:00 a.m.
Hospitality in Suite No. 516. Coffee, Tea and
Danish available.
NOTE: Be sure that your wives see this program.

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A boss once told his employees that if you are prone to make
mistakes, it is greatly to your advantage to not make the same
ones twice. Apparently, your editor has goofed twice, and
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in the three-color program brochure and also for not recognizing
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Again, we apologize and hope that this will not happen again.
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By Roy L. Goss

Soil compaction is one of the major causes for the loss of
turfgrasses and soil structure. With the loss of soil structure there
is an interference with infiltration rates of water, root
penetration, oxygen diffusion and a major loss of air porosity.
The standard aerifying equipment on the market today usually
will not penetrate more than 3-4 inches. Usually, these aerifiers
will pretty much relieve the compaction on turfgrass areas such
as putting greens, but may not sufficiently do the job on golf
course fairways, parks facilities and other large turfgrass areas
where tractors and heavy equipment are frequently used.
My first experience with the Vertidrain was on a clay-loam
soil near Sydney, Australia, while participating in a turf growers
field day in 1985. The soil was quite dry and very hard, and
this machine had no problem whatsoever in penetrating near
16 inches deep. The machine is manufactured in Holland and
can be equipped with 1-inch or 3/4-inch tines. The 1-inch tines
(all tines are solid) will penetrate as deep as 16 inches, and the
3/4-inch tine will penetrate up to 10 inches. The effect of the
solid tine aerification is very similar to that having been
described earlier as shattercore aerification. The interval
between holes on linear travel is 2-8 inches apart. This spacing
can be adjusted by a creeper gear on the tractor.
At the present time, this machine has been demonstrated on
a number of turfgrass areas including very shallow soil areas
underlain with cemented hardpan. It is reported that the larger
tine effectively penetrated these hardpan soils and has resulted
in significantly better water and root penetration.
The machine has been used on essentially all turfgrass areas
including putting greens that have internal drainage problems
and essentially all other turfgrass applications. It should be
pointed out that this machine is not a panacea but can be a
tremendous assist in moving water through the surface and at
least to depths of 16 inches were compaction may be less of
a problem. The greatest disadvantage of the machine is the
slowness of operation, but when an area has been properly
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The spring and early summer of 1986 set some records for
low temperatures, cloudy days and extended light but generally
insufficient precipitation. The hue and cry around the Northwest
was, "It looks like we are not going to have a summer this
year." All of a sudden, the showery weather quit in July (around
the 15th) and some 40 days later, there was no measurable
precipitation. During this time, temperatures ranged from a little
better than 100 degrees in the Coastal areas to well over 100
degrees F east of the Cascade Mountains. Portland, Oregon and
the Willamette Valley had many days near the 100 degree mark.
Now, let's go back and analyze the year. The month of May
we had deficit rainfall - in other words, our evapotranspiration
rate exceeded our precipitation, in spite of the fact that it was
cold, cloudy and drizzly from time to time. What this was telling
us is that we were losing soil moisture slowly. During this period
of time, the localized dry spots or hydrophobic areas were
forming. Not too many of these localized dry spots had
expressed themselves before the hot dry weather began in July.
It took very few days of warm, dry weather for these hydrophic
areas to appear. I observed severe localized dry spots on
sportsfields, play grounds, home lawns, golf course tees,
fairways and greens all over the Northwest.
Frankly, I believe that we have been entirely too negligent
in the use of surfactants or wetting agents. I guess the bottom
line is, what do your bosses expect from you or your turfgrass
facility. If you let sportsfields dry out during the summer, the
comeback is very slow and the turf may not be recovered at
the time that play commences in late August or September. If
this condition occurs extensively on golf course putting greens,
it could possibly be your job. I travelled a considerable distance
to look at severe problems on a golf course in July only to
discover that 95% of the problem was failure to use wetting
agents on sand based putting greens.
While this year's experience is still fresh in our minds, let
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this year will also turn brown on you in 1987 unless you alter
your management programs. The management programs may
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which includes multiple cycling of a single irrigation or the use
of wetting agents or both. To be most effective, you must begin
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the first part of May and not neglect their application the
remainder of the dry season. Applications of wetting agents must
be made every three to four weeks at the longest interval, and
possibly as often every two weeks on critical areas. The
important thing is to make certain that applied irrigation water
soaks in, does not run off and wets the root zone entirely to
the full depth of rooting. Remember that sands are much more
hydrophobic or water repelling than natural soils although soils
can become hydrophobic as well. High levels of organic matter,
and particularly thatch, will shed water as effectively as a hay
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Pines, Colorado, was Superintendent at Cherry Hills, the site
of the 1985 PGA Championship. Armen was innovative with
his liberal use of improved turftype perennial ryegrasses for
complete renovation of tees, fairways and roughs in a region
that traditionally has used bluegrasses. He also planted a mixture
of creeping bentgrasses on his fairways, believing that genetic
diversity is just as important in bentgrasses as in other species.
Armen exemplifies the elite class of superintendents that are
knowledgeable, innovative, and really good at growing grass.
He relishes challenges like Cherry Hills and the new Castle Pines
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WHO DARES TO ASK FOR YET
ANOTHER DAY OFF?

Feeling burnt out? Want more vacation?
Hate to tell you—only two of us deserve it!
Author Unknown
If you're like most people, you've got too much to do and
not enough time to do it. And this week, like so many others
in the year, has been a long and hard one. You've taken care
of the daily duties, handled the major and minor crises at work
and at home; maybe you've even taken some work home.
You're exhausted, thoroughly drained. You need a mental health
day to recuperate. So you ask the boss for a day off. He says
no and gives you this explanation.
There are 365 days in the year, but you take weekends off,
so you have to subtract 104 days. That leaves you with 261
working days.
But you only work eight hours a day. The other 16 you are
either sleeping or tending to your own business. So you have
to subtract 174 days. That leaves 87.
But wait. We're not through subtracting yet. You eat lunch
every day, and although lunch hours vary, it is estimated that
the average worker consumes 45 days per year at lunch.
Coffee breaks? Figure 21 days over the course of the year.
Take those 21 days from the 42 left from the last subtraction
and that leaves you 21 days to get your work done.
From those 21 days, you have to subtract your two weeks
of vacation—10 work days. Continuing the subtraction, 10 from
21 leaves you only 11 actual full work days in the entire year.
But, of course, you do not work on Christmas, New Year's,
Independence Day or Thanksgiving. Most firms now allow 10
paid holidays per year. After subtracting the 10 paid holidays
from the 11 days remaining, you've got one full work day to
your credit, and you want to take that day off?
Forget it!!
The boss sees no reason why you should be unduly exhausted
given the above schedule. So you explain to him that the USA's
population is 200 million or so, of whom 72 million are over
the standard 65-year retirement age. That leaves 28 million
people to do all the work.
If you subtract the 75 million under the age of 21, you are
left with 53 million actual workers. Of that 53 million,
27,471,002 are employed by the federal government. That
leaves 25,528,998 workers for all the other jobs.
Subtracting the 8 million people who serve in the Armed
Forces leaves us with 17,528,998 workers. From here, we must
turn to the city and state work force. Subtracting their
16,520,000 from 17,528,998 brings us down to 1,009,998.
Of course, we also should consider those people who have
a complete aversion to work. It's been estimated that there are
some 800,500 vagrants, bums and the like. Now we are down
to 208,498 people to carry the workload for the entire nation.
But, you sill have to subtract the prison population which
accounts for 208,496 people.
This means that two people are carrying everybody else. You
know who those two people are, don't you? It's you and me.
No wonder we're so exhausted!!

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