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" A Patch of Green" 31823 U tica Road, Fraser, Michigan 48026 (313) 293-3540 P u b lis h e d monthly by the Michigan and Border C itie s G o lf Course Superintendents A sso cia tion C irculation 750 Ted Woehrle, Oakland Hills CC Editor Blakeman Publications Graphic A rts /C ir c u la tio n A D V E R T IS IN G R A T E S Double P age Spread...........................................• 100.00 Back O utside P a g e...................................................65.00 Full P a g e.......................................................................55.00 Half P a g e.......................................................................35.00 Quarter P a g e................................................................ 25.00 Eighth P a g e.................................................................. 12.50 Sixteenth P a ge...............................................................7.50 C la s sifie d Ad (per in ch )...........................................5.00 DISCOUNT RATES One Year 10 % THIS MONTH’S ADVERTISERS American Research Corp. Century Supply Corp. Certified Laboratories, Inc. J. J. D ill Company Gunter Co., Inc. L ak eshore Equipment Lawn Equipment Corp. W. F. Miller Garden Miller Sprinkling System s National Chemsearch Corp. 0. M. Scott & Sons Company Turfgrass, Inc. Turf Supplies, Inc. Terminal S a le s Corp. Wifkie Turf Equipment Co. 3 MICHIGAN AND BORDER C IT IES GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION P R E S ID E N T TED WOEHRLE OAKLAN D HILLS COU N TRY CLUB Birmingham. Michigan O ff. 644-3352. R es. 646-8512 TAM -O-SHANTER COUNTRY CLUB V IC E P R E S ID E N T GERALD GILL 3466 Walnut Lake Road Orchard Lake. Michigan O ff. and R es. 626-8325 S E C R E T A R Y -T R E A S U R E R BOB HOPE KNOLLWOOD COU N TRY CLUB 6330 Inkster Road Birmingham. M ichigan Off. and R e 8. 626-6062 B O A R D O F D IR E C T O R S C. H. WOLFROM, JR. D E TR O IT GO LF CLUB D etroit. M ichigan 530 Kendry (R e s .) WESTERN GO LF & COU N TRY CLUB ROBERT PRIESKORN 721 V enoy R oad (R e s .) D etroit. M ichigan Off. KE 1-1549. R es. 721-6648 ALBERT KALTZ M APLE LAN E O O LF CLUB Sterling H eights. M ichigan O ff. 268-2180. R es. 463-2892 DAVID S. MOOTE ESSEX GOLF CLUB P.O . B ox 180 Sandwich. Ontario O ff. 734-7815, R es. 966-1617 GARY BARTSCH PINE LAKE COU N TRY CLUB P .O . B ox 216 Orchard Lake. M ichigan Off. 681-1322. R es. 476-5852 ROGER GILL R O Y A L OAK G O LF CLUB R oyal Oak. M ichigan O ff. 549-7125. R e s. 573-6859 P R E S ID E N T E M E R IT U S WARD SWANSON PLUM HOLLOW G O LF CLUB 29642 W estfield (R e s.) L ivon ia , M ichigan O ff. 852-2436, R es. 421-8049 The President’s Message and over Association interest c o n t i n u e s high. We 85 a v e r a g e d members guests per meeting. The educa­ programs were tional r e c e i v e d and well appreciated. We intend to continue these fine programs on a local level next year plus an end of clinic of a one day duration. year Keep this in mind so you will be ready to suggest subject material and a name of a speaker or two as well. chapter participating e d u c a t i o n a l material The National Association has also been providing us with some much needed in business management. To date, we have only had three members of our local - True Professionalism cannot be obtained until we all improve ourselves in turf grass m a n ag e m e n t . The National Association also has a program of Certification to establish some basic standards so that we can judge our­ selves in comparison to a set standard. Our meetings this year were held at many of our outstanding clubs. We thank these clubs for the use of their facilities and a special thanks to the Host Superintendents that so graciously gave of their time and talents to make this one of the real fine years in our history. The 7th Annual Turfgrass Field Day was a huge success. The members of this Association should be proud of themselves. Over 52% of our Class A members p a r t i c i p a t e d in the fund raising day. This is really outstanding when you consider that last year we only had 40% participation. I guess we would be dreaming if we thought we could reach 75% next year. We still have members that refuse to help themselves. They expect the other guys to do all the work. No wonder we haven’t moved towards our goals. There are still too many guys holding onto the shirt tails of the front runners. Congratulations anyway to the guys that really worked hard to make this event such a huge success. faster speaking Turf wise this has been an excel­ lent year. There were a few poorly drained areas show up on all golf courses because of all the rain, but generally it was a pretty good year. With all the new chemicals and new equipment available, we are finding our jobs a little more bearable. Or perhaps we are maturing a little bit and the problems are not affecting us as much as in the past. Your president, Ted Woehrle Ra in ^ B ir d SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO MEET THE MOST DEMANDING WATERING REQUIREMENTS OF ANY GOLF COURSE. IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS ( 313) 543-7730 3890 WEST ELEVEN MILE ROAD BERKLEY, M I C H I G A N 4 8 0 7 2 4 Can You Forecast the Weather? Golf Course Superintendents have always been good weather prophets. Are you one of them? We hope you enjoy some of these tried-and-true ways of forecasting the weather. I’ m certain you will recognize some of them. If you know of others, please forward them on to us. I can remember Grandma and her corns hurt or Dad’ s r h e u m a t i s m bothered him. It was a sign of changing weather. The groundhog has always been an important part of predicting when spring would arrive. If he sees his shadow on February 2, we will have six more weeks o f .cold weather. Watch this one next year. Some old timers always said that we never have good weather until after Easter. When late we late spring. We can would have a usually expect snow flurries the week o f Easter. it was Remember this one? If March comes in like a lion the month will go out like a lamb - The opposite is also true. You all know how important rain is to us. Here are a few ways to forecast rain. We can look for signs that will tell us when it is going to rain or storm and how much to expect. If the sun sets behind a bank of clouds, it usually rains the next day. It will rain shortly after you see a ring around the moon. CHRISTMAS PARTY Friday, December 8, 1972 EDGEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB H ost Superintendent, Ken M cR ae and his w ife, E liz a b e th, have promised us a great dinner and good music to dance to. It's never too late to c a ll and make reservations. 5 approaching Did you ever have a dog that was afraid of storms? Most animals can sense storms. Cats usually rub themselves behind the ears before bad weather. Teachers claim that children become restless before a storm. following seven Sundays. If it rains on Easter, it would rain If it the rained on the 1st of June, it would rain for 21 days in June. (This one was true this year.) If it rained on Monday, we can expect it to rain three more days that week, but Friday would be the fairest or the foulest of them all. If a rain started before 7 o’ clock, it would stop before 11 o’ clock. If a rain started with big drops, it wouldn’t last very long (about as long as a snowball in a hot oven). If the horns of the new moon are vertical, it indicates dry weather. Being able to predict the coming winter is also important. The color of the wooley worms is an important indicator. The fall of the year is the time to judge them. If they are very dark, the winter will be cold. If they are light colored, the opposite is true. If the worms are striped, we can predict warm and cold spells alternating. If the squirrels bury their nuts, we can expect warm weather with very little snow. If they store their nuts, look out for a cold blustery winter. For each day in August, we will have a snow in winter (that should make eleven). Also the date of the first snowfall denotes the number of snows we will have this winter. Thunder in February means frost in May. Some old timers claim that for every day the snow stayed on the trees after a storm that would indicate the number Continued on Page 10 More Photos Andy Bertoni, left, Master of Ceremonies and Dan Uzelac, Supt. Dominion Golf Club, Windsor, Ontario, winner of trip for two to Las Vegas. Three hard workers at the registration desk: Left to Right; Doug Forier, Chairman of the Golf Committee, Dave Forier, Registration Committee and George Prieskom, selling raffle tickets for the prizes. 6 Don LaFond proudly stands in front of his display of prizes, Ward Swanson, not shown, helped obtain funds for the prizes. George Prieskorn, Chairman of the Ticket Committee, spins the tumbler so one of the lovely hostesses from Bay Pointe could make an occasional drawing for prize winners. GUNTER CO., INC. 0-12495 DIXIE HWY. HOLLY, MICHIGAN 313 634-4812 f t GOLF COURSE CONSTRUCTION C O M P L E T E G O L F C O U R S E C O N S T . R E M O D E L IN G E X IS T IN G C O U R S E S IR R IG A T IO N S Y S T E M IN S T A L L A T IO N C O N V E R S IO N O F E X IS T IN G S Y S TE M S 7 Bill Freehan, All Star catcher of the Detroit Tigers and Jim Northrup, centerfielder of the Tigers, chatting with Bob Mauck, Supt. of Franklin Hills. CHOW TIME — Delicious steaks, baked potatoes and corn on the cob. No synthetically produced fertilizer can compare with MILORGANITE Go If Courses Use More M ILORGANITE Than Any Other Fertilizer TERMINAL SALES CORR 12871 EATON AVE. DETROIT, MICH. 48227 (313) 491 -0606 8 RAKES TURF AND VACUUMS IT CLEAN RAKEOVAC FROM TORO To Arrange For A Free Demonstration Call: Wilkie Turf Equipment Company The Anderson Division 23455 TELEGRAPH RD., SOUTHFIELD, MICH. 48075 • PHONE: 353-5300 Weather Forecasting Cont. of weeks the snow would stay on the ground. Remember these? Red sky at night, sailors delight; Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning. When the wind is in the East, ‘tis neither fit for man or beast. If the hold, the coming winter will be cold. If Christmas day clear; we’ ll have two winters in the year. fishermen had a few rhymes leaves on the trees still is bright and The too. When the wind is from the east, the fishing is the least. When the wind is in the west, the fishing is the best. Keep some of these in mind and notice how accurate they are. Let’ s talk about them sometime. From an article by Ruth Kirkpatrick Goodwin, Prairie Farmer, November, 1972. James Bertoni’ s weather forecasting con be found on page 11 in case you missed the wooley worms this fall. formula for - NEXT MONTH - Winners of the Annual Golf Tournament at Stoneycroft. Roster Questionaire Secretary Bob Hope is gathering information for our new Roster for 1973. You will be getting a question­ aire soon and we would like to have your answers as soon as possible so we can get it printed early next year. Please c o o p e r a t e . If you want correct information printed about you and your family - we will need your help. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING THE MICHIGAN AND BORDER CITIES GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION? Fill in the questionaire below and mail to: N A M E O F I N T E R E S T E D P E R S O N D A T E a l b e r t k a l t z M ap* Lan. Golf Club Sterling Heights, Michigan 48077 Phone: Off. 268-2130, Res. 463-2Ü92 M A IL IN G A D D R E S S ________________________________________________________ C I T Y ____________________________________ S T A T E _______________ Z I P _____ Or you may contact the next golf course supplier who calls on you and give him the information needed for application. 10 “Weather” or Not ■ You Care! by JAMES BERTONI, Editor of The N e w s le tte r o f The C hic ago lan d G o lf Course Superintendents’ A sso ciation The golf storms course oncoming superintendent could be much more effective if he could only predict the weather and a n t i c i p a t e or conditions. Weather fore­ obnoixous casts through newspapers, national weather bureau and even radio and TV are very helpful, but seem to leave a lot to be desired. They report only what p r o b a b l y will happen while leaving out the other conditions that may happen under conditions other than the probable. With the help of an encyclopedia, we will try and become our own “ Back Yard” weathermen. First we must understand weather. Weather is the instantaneous state of the atmosphere. The definition implies much more than it says since it is the weather that makes us hot or cold, wet or dry and even happy or unhappy. It is a also the most influential part of our environment. When a portion of the atmosphere develops, consistant profile of factors such as t e m p e r a t u r e and humidity, it is classified as an air mass. These large segments of air are classified by the regions from which they obtain their basic properties, their paths of travel, and by such modifications as they undergo because of their path and their age. Air masses originate either as dry (Continental) or moist (Maritime) as cold (Polar) or warm (Tropical), de­ pending upon their source region. When of markedly different air masses properties bad weather or changeable weather usually develops. The separation between d i f f e r e n t air masses are called Continued on Next Page clash, zones of WIND AND BAROMETER INDICATIONS FOR FORECASTING Wind Direction SW to NW SW to NW SW to NW SW to NW S to SE SE to NE SE to NE E to NE Barometer Pressure 30.10 to 30.20 & steady 30.10 to 30.20 & risin g rapidly 30.20 & above & steady 30.20 & above & fa llin g slow ly 30.20 & fallin g rapidly 30.10 & 30.20 & fa llin g slow ly 30.10 to 30.20 & falling rapidly 30.10 & above & falling slow ly E to NE 30.10 & above & fa llin g rapidly SE to NE SE to NE S to SW S to E E to N 80.00 or b elow & falling slow ly 30.00 or b elow & falling rapidly 30.00 or below & risin g slow ly 29.80 or below & fa llin g rapidly 29.80 or b elow & fa llin g rapidly going to w est 29.80 or b elow & fa llin g rapidly 11 Weather Indicated fair, little temp, change for 1-2 days fair, follow ed eith in 2 days by wanner and rain continued fair — no marked temp, change fair with slow ly risin g temp, for 2 days wind increasing, rain with 12 to 24 hrs. rain within 12 to 18 hrs. increasin g wind and rain within 12 hrs. In winter, rain within 24 hrs. In summer, with light winds, rain might not o ccu r for several days In winter, rain or snow with increasing winds. In summer, rain probably within 12 to 24 hrs. rain w ill continue for 1 - 2 days rain with high winds follow ed in 36 hrs. by clearing and cooler clearin g within a few hrs. and fair for several days severe storm follow ed within 24 hrs. by clea rin g and in winter, cooler severe NE gale and heavy p recipitation. In winter, heavy snow follow ed by a cold wave. clearing and cold er GOLF COURSE CHEMICALS Donald Benham NATIONAL CHEMSEARCH CORP. 5589 Abington Road Birmingham, Michigan 626-1111 You Can RELY ON L A B O R A T O R IE S , IN C . FOR TURF CHEMICALS CALL ARNIE COLLENS 27848 K E N D A L L W O O D F A R M IN G T O N , M IC H 4 8024 P H O N E : (31 3 ) 4 7 7 -4 5 9 5 T U R F G R A SS, INC. 365 WOODLAND DR. 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When visible cipitation moisture into water vapor, the process is called evaporation. The vast cycle of evaporation, con­ densation and p r e c i p i t a t i o n , so precious to life, hinges on the exis­ tence and spreading of water vapor throughout the world. Without water vapor, the earth would be a lifeless, dust-stormed planet. changes ice is All to evaporate thunderstorms usually come about as a result of the lifting of a large volume of moist air which ex­ pands and cools as it ascends. When the temperature of the parcel of air has dropped, sufficiently, it no longer can hold the water vapor in gaseous form and condensation occurs which gives to the air parcel the heat which the water was used originally. Thus, although the air continues to cool as it rises, it cools more than before. Fierce, turbulent currents of air within the cloud may carry water droplets to all levels. Particles of hail may form at the upper levels and be tossed about in the cloud until they become too heavy to be supported. By a process not as yet known, electric charges are built up in different portions of the cloud to be discharged as lightning. As the lightning streaks through the air, is a tremendous ripping apart and heating of the air in the slowly there 12 lightning path, producing what we call thunder. Thunderstorms may form when warm moist air is lifted by the ad­ vancing wedge of a cold front. The mechanically ascending air will expand and cool to form clouds and produce thunderstorms along the entire front line. A thunderstorm may also form within a single air mass when a segment of air heats up from being in contact with a very hot part of the earth’ s surface. In either case the the raising and cooling of a large volume of moist air to form a cloud which contains both water droplets and ice crystals, and favorable conditions for strong vertical currents within the cloud. ingredients must include The newspaper weather map is a simplified form of one of the fore­ caster’ s p r i n c i p a l charts. Wind, temperature, amount of cloudiness, and pressure are shown for representative cities, providing a survey of surface weather conditions around the nation. One of the most effective ways of using the daily newspaper map is to keep three or four consecutive maps on hand up to the current one. Select any given point (Chicago) on the map. Since the map shows the movements of highs and lows with the attending cold and warm fronts, and weather asso­ ciated with these systems, it is more useful to make the point the center of a high or low, or a point on a warm or cold front. Keep track of how this point is moving on the map by placing an onionskin overlay on the maps and marking the progress of the point. When the point has been charted up to the current map, you will be ready to anticipate or forecast where the point will be 24 hrs. from the current maps’ time. This can be generally done by using the “ Path Method” which is based upon the movement of a point in relation to a given time. For ex­ ample, if the point has moved directly from west to east 100 miles in 24 hrs., then has continued another 100 miles the next 24 hrs. from west to east, you may assume that 24 hrs. from now, the point will be displaced 100 miles to CALL LAKESHORE COLLECT (216) 651-1600 FOR ALL YOUR TURFGRASS SUPPLIES - QUOTATIONS ON REQUEST - CHECK OUR PRICES - - LAKESHORE E Q U IP M E N T & S U P P L Y C O . 10237 B E R E A R O A D C L E V E L A N D , O H I O 4 4 1 0 2 YOU’ RE ENTITLED TO THE BEST golf course CHEMICALS (You’ll get it - and more!) 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As another example of the path method, if a point has moved 300 miles to the southeast the first day, then 150 miles changing to due east the’ second day, and moved 75 miles to the northeast on the third day, you can assume that on the fourth day it will move about 37 miles to the north. Essentially, then, the path method is based upon continuance of a pattern of movement. the of all, Other aids are available to us the U.S. D e p a r t m e n t of through Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service. Through this depart­ ment 2 publications are available. the average monthly First weather o u t l o o k which predicts conditions 2 weeks in advance charting the probable temperatures and precipi­ tation expected for any given area. It also gives the predicted pattern of air flow as well as charts on the weather experienced for the past 2 weeks. The other circular available is the local climatological data. 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