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March 1979

Published monthly by the Metropolitan Golf Course Superintendents Association

MEETING NOTICE:
Day & Date
Thursday, March 15, 1979
Location
Westchester Hills Golf Club
Ridgeway Rd.
White Plains, N. Y.
f Host
Mark Millet
Telephones:
Superintendent: 914-948-1942
Clubhouse:
914-948-5020
Program
Business Meeting
Lunch:
12 noon (cash)
Directions: From Northern Westchester: Take Hutchinson
River parkway to North St. exit (White Plains) At first light
f (Ridgeway) take left. Club is on the left about Vi mile.
From Southern Westchester: Take Hutchinson River
Parkway to Mamaroneck Ave. exit. (White Plains) Look for
Ridgeway and club signs on your right. Take right at
Ridgeway and club is 14 mile on right.
COMING EVENTS:
May 24
MGCSA Monthly Meeting, Westchester C.C.
June
MGCSA Monthly Meeting, Mt. Kisco C.C.
July 9-15
1979 U.S. Women’s Open, Brooklawn C.C.,
Fairfield, Conn, (for info call 203-334-5116)
July 19
MGCSA Monthly Meeting, Innis Arden G.C.
July 25
Univ./Mass. Annual Turf Field Day
August
Family Picnic — Woodway Country Club
August 16-19 Westchester Classic
August 22
Univ/Rhode Island Turfgrass Field Day
September 20 MGCSA Invitational, Ridgeway C.C.

GCSAA NEWS:
The 50th International Turfgrass Conference and Show
ended last week with a total record breaking registration of
6,501. Over 100 foreign visitors attended the conference from
such far away places as Japan, Australia, The Netherlands,
Europe, The Philippines, and South America.
One of the presentations I found most interesting was the
Keynote Speaker, Mr. George H. Labovitz, Professor of
Organizational Behavior at the Boston University School of
Management. Dr. Labovitz’s speech, entitled “ Managing for
I Productivity” concentrated on a fresh approach to
management in keeping in turn with our current society.
“Behavior depends upon both the individual and the environ-

Vol. IX , No. 2

ment” Labovitz stressed, “ You must foster a desirable work
environment to help an individual unlock his or her abilities.”
Who was your best boss? Probably one who a) left us alone, {¡¡¡^delegated responsibility to us, c) motivated us, d) was
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“ The best bosses rem w rrfte obstacles confronting the peo­
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Participative Management is one that
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defines WF?&®£is^g be done, and leaves the HOW to the
persons c(<$l^i$^Lie jéft&Dtffine the job, set the objectives,
and leave the system to them.
Speakers at the conference included USGA Green
Section personnel, University Professors, Environmentalists,
Management Consultants, and other turf management
specialists. Topics of discussion during the week covered
water usage, turf management, landscaping, fertigation,
pesticides, greens construction, dealing with flood damage,
and sand topdressing.
The exhibit area covered nearly 4.5 acres, containing 235
exhibitors. This area displalyed many kinds of equipment,
supplies, and services necessary for the operation of golf
courses and other turfgrass areas. One thing which struck me
was the large amount of foreign equipment which is capturing
the American market.

MGCSA Treasurer Sherwood Moore delivering the financial
report. President Robert Alonzi to his right.

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Editorial Staff
Ted Horton, Co-Editor

Office: 914-698-2827
Home: 914-937-3613
Office: 203-637-3210
Home: 203-637-3939

Pat Lucas, Co-Editor

O F F IC E R S

President

R o b e rt A lonzi, B urning T ree C o u n try Club
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Vice-President

M ichael M affei, Back o f B ey o n d G o lf C ourse
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Secretary

Paul Caswell, G reenw ich C o u n try Club
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Treasurer

S herw o o d M oore, W oodw ay C o u n try C lub, Inc.
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Melvin B. Lucas, Jr. delivering a most interesting
presentation concerning our history, including
many historical items.

N o t copyrighted. I f there is good here, we want to share it with
all chapters - unless author states otherwise.

JOB OPENING:
Cherry Valley Country Club
Garden City, New York
Available: March 15, 1979
Resumes to:
Mr. Warren Leker, Green Chairman
3rd St. & Rockway Ave.
Garden City, New York 11530

The April issue of Tee to Green will carry information on
obtaining printed proceedings of the conference along with
cassettes of the speakers program.
Charles H. Tadge, CGCS, South Euclid, Ohio, was elected
president of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of
America today at their annual membership meeting. Melvin
B. Lucas Jr., CGCS, Long Island, N.Y., was elected vice
president. Each man will serve a one-year term. Michael R.
Bavier, CGCS, Palatine, 111., and Edward F. Dembnicki,
CGCS, Myrtle Beach, S.C., were elected directors for threeyear terms.
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Pat Lucas
Membership Survey:
We will continue utilizing the monthly return postcard for
the purpose of surveying to benefit our members.

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THE SUMMER OF 1962
by Ted Horton, CGCS
Winged Foot Golf Club
Do you remember the summer of 1962? As you dredge your
memory I wonder if you’ll recall that this was the summer
that the Periodical Cicada, Magicicada septendicim (L.) last
emerged in the Metropolitan New York Area.
At the recent Professional Turf and Landscape Conference
Ms. Carolyn Klass, Entomologist from the Insect and Plant
Disease Diagnostic Laboratory of Cornell University, pointed
out that during the summer of 1979 the Periodical Cicada,
commonly referred to as the “ 17 Year Locust’’ would likely
reappear.
The adults are about 1 5/8 inches long and have a mostly
black body, reddish legs and eyes and orange-veined wings.
Adults generally do not feed—their main objective being to
reproduce and as a result ornamental damage occurs when the
female insects lays their eggs in pockets or slits cut in twigs of
trees. Cankers, pathogenic problems and storm damage to
weakened branches then result from this egg laying habit of
the insect. Slits of approximately two to three inches in length
are cut into branches and four to six hundred eggs are
deposited. The eggs hatch in six to seven weeks, the nymphs
drop to the ground and burrow into the soil where they suck
juices from the roots of the trees two to twenty-four inches
deep. Development to the adult stage requires seventeen years
in the northern states and thirteen years in the southern states.
In the seventeenth year the larva start to dig upwards to one

inch from the surface where they will open a hole to the sur­
face and emerge in masses on the proper night in June or
July. The pupal case is shed and the pupa will crawl up into a
tree where the shell is then split allowing the callow adult to
emerge. Wings expand in about three to four hours and the
fully developed adult can then fly.
Seventy to eighty species of trees are common hosts of the
insects. Look for egg laying damage or for the small holes in
the soil, particularity numerous under trees, for the presence
of the insect. Sevin is recommended for control and one
application to valuable trees before egg-laying will protect
them for five to eight days. Remember that the insect is a
strong flier—two to five miles—and as a result more than one
application may be needed for control. Specimen plants may
be protected with cloth netting for the five to eight week
period of egg-laying.
Although the “ 17 Year Locust’’ is not expected to be a
severe problem to golf course trees I am somewhat intrigued
by the life cycle of the insect. Because of its swarming habit,
strange appearance and the peculiar noise that it emits I know
that my boys will be catching them and questioning me. At
least I have prepared my answer and quite frankly have
become quite curious myself. I guess my mind is too cluttered
with other nonsense to remember the Periodical Cicada from
the summer of 1962.

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EVENT

Here it is March, and we’re all ‘cranking up’ for another
busy season. And most of us work under stressful situations.
The purpose of this article is not to attempt instruction to
anyone on how to remove stress or keeping stress from
developing. There are many experts and specialists who have
covered that subject very well in books and journal ranging
from jogging to meditation.
We can however, measure ourselves to see just where we
stand on a stress scale. Many years ago, Dr. Thomas H.
Holmes, psychiatrist at University of Washington School of
Medicine in Seattle, developed and widely published the
Holmes Scale.
In evaluating ourselves, we can judge how stressful our
lives are and also what are our chances of becoming ill from
conditions that accompany stress.
Dr. Holmes reported that almost one half of the people
with totals of 300 or more fell sick, while only nine per cent of
those with totals under 200 became sick during the same one
year period.
Pat Lucas

VALUE

Death of spouse......................................................................... 100
Divorce.......................................................................................73
Marital separation....................................................................... 63
Jail term ..................................................................................... 63
Death of a close family member....................................................63
Personal injury or illness.............................................................. 53
Marriage..................................................................................... 50
Fired from work...........................................................................47
Marital reconcilistion..................................................................45
Retirement..................................................................................45
Change in family member’s health.............................................. 44
Pregnancy................................................................................... 40
Sex difficulties.............................................................................39
Addition to family....................................................................... 39
Business readjustment..................................................................39
Change in financial status.............................................................38
Death of a close friend................................................................ 37
Change to a different line of work................................................ 36
Change in number of marital arguments......................................36
Morgage or loan over $10,000 ..................................................... 31
Foreclosure of mortgage or loan..................................................30
Change in work responsibilities....................................................29
Son or daughter leaving home......................................................29
Touble with in-laws......................................................................29
Outstanding personal achievement...............................................28
Spouse begins or stops work......................................................... 26
Starting or finishing school...........................................................26
Change in living conditions......................................................... 25
Revision of personal habits...........................................................24
Trouble with b o ss....................................................................... 23
Change in work, hours, conditions.............................................. 20
Change in residence..................................................................... 20
Change in schools....................................................................... 20
Change in recreational habits....................................................... 19
Change in church activities........................................................... 19
Change in social activities.............................................................18
Mortgage or loan under $10,000 .................................................. 17
Change in sleeping habits.............................................................16
Change in number of family gatherings....................................... 15
Change in eating habits................................................................ 15
Vacation......................................................................................13
Christmas season......................................................................... 12
Minor violation of the law ........................................................... 11

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CALIBRATE EQUIPMENT TO AVOID
CHEMICAL WASTE
Editor's Note: Our thanks to John Weistrand o f MetroMilorginate fo r providing this fine article on Calibration.
Pat Lucas
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Calibrating chemical application equipment will help apply
the right amount of pesticides, says Leland Drew, professor
of agricultural engineering, Ohio State University.
Many dealers use a broadcast sprayer, one on which spray
nozzles are evenly spaced along a broad horizontal support
piece which is usually called a “ boom .” There are two
methods to determine the application rate of such a sprayer.
One way would be to mark off an acre of land. Start with a
full tank of water and go over this acre with the sprayer
operating at normal ground speed and pumping pressure.
After the entire acre has been covered, check the amount of
water used to refill the tank. If it takes 8 gallons to refill the
tank, it means the sprayer is set to apply liquid at a rate of 8
gal./acre.
A calibrated dip stick could be made by starting with an
empty tank, adding 5 gallons of water at a time, and marking
the stick each time at the water level as you fill the tank. The
stick can then be used for later calibration checks.
“ Some words of caution though—be sure that the spray
nozzles stay clean and unclogged during the test run; the
ground speed and nozzle pressure held constant,” Drew said.
The second method of deciding the chemical application

rate can be done before going to the field. Start the sprayer
(using water again) and use a stop watch or other timing
device to measure the time required to catch a reasonable
quantity of material sprayed from al the nozzles. Use bottles
or cans to collect the spray liquid from each nozzle. Covert
the amount of liquid sprayed into gallons and divide it by the
number of minutes used to collect the liquid. This will give the
flow rate of the spray material in gallons per minute.
An acre is 43,450 sq. ft. of land area. To measure an acre,
mark off a square which is 209 ft. on a side. Or, it might be
more convenient to divide the sprayer width into 43,650 to get
the distance the sprayer should have to travel to cover an acre.
For example, a 20-ft. sprayer would have to travel 2,178 ft. to
cover an acre.
The next step is to determine how fast the sprayer will be
covering the acreage. Find this by multiplying ground speed
in miles per hour by the sprayer width in feet and dividing this
quantity into 500. For example, a 20-ft. sprayer operating at 5
mph gives a number of 100, which is then divided into 500 to
give five. This means the machine requires 5 minutes to cover
an acre.
Then, by multiplying the gallon per minute flow rate by the
ground coverage in minutes per acre, the result is the gallons
per acre of spray material applied. If, for example, material is
collected from the nozzles at a rate of 3 gal. per minute, it
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multiplied by five minutes/acre gives an application rate of 15
gallons per acre.
Use the speed-hour meter on the tractor for a given
operating gear to find the ground speed for the sprayer. If this
is not possible, measure the distance covered by the tractor on
a road or in a field in one minute. Since each mile per hour of
speed equals 88 feet per minute, the measurement can be
converted from feet per minute to miles per hour by dividing
by 88. If the tractor went 350 ft. in one minute, that would be
equivalent to 4 mph.
“ The rate of application of equipment can be changed in
three ways,” Drew explained.
First, change the ground speed. Cutting the speed in half
will result in twice as many gallons per acre. Or change the
pump pressure to the nozzles. Pressure would have to increase
four times to double the application rate in gallons per acre.
Finally, change the size of the nozzle openings by using larger
or smaller nozzle tips.
Any of these methods will adjust the application rate up or
down to get the application rate desired. For big changes in
rate, it is recommended that the nozzle openings sizes should
be changed.
The next step is to obtain the correct amount of active
ingredients on each acre. Pesticides are usually bought in
concentrated form and must be mixed with water to get the
concentration of spray solution that will leave the correct
amount of active ingredient in the field.
For example, if the concentrate, as purchased, contained 4
lb. of active ingredient per gallon and the application should
be 2 lb. of active ingredient per acre, mix Vi gal. of
concentrate with 14Vi gal. of water. This would give a
solution mix of 15 gal. to apply on each acre.
Other bases can also be used. For example, knowing the
tank capacity and the application rate (gallons per acre) can
be used to calculate how many acres will be sprayed from
each tankful. Then, add the calculated amount of concentrate
per tankful and fill the remainder with water to get the correct
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I see you at the meetings; but you never say hello,
You’re busy all the time you’re there, with those you
already know.
I sit amongst the members and yet I’m a lonesome guy;
The new ones are as strange as I, but you old members pass
me by.
But darn it, you folks asked us in, and talked of fellowship,
You could just step across the room, but you’ve never made
the trip.
Why can’t you nod and say hello, or stop and shake my hand;
then go and sit among your friends, now that
I’d understand.
I’ll be at your next meeting, perhaps a nice time to spend;
Do you think you could introduce yourself?
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