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September, 1931 Vol. 3, No. 9 C O O P E R A T I V E B U Y I N G

For several years now, group, or co-operative, buying of the supplies and equipment fo r the maintenance of golf courses has been agi tated and a t tempted. The f a c t tha t no permanent headway has been made over a period of five or six years should indicate tha t the ad-vantages f r o m this type of purchasing are not too easily available to such a peculiarly specialized business as golf course maintenance. The persistency of the idea, however, indicates tha t it is still very much alive in the minds of many golf club executives. Unfor tuna te ly these men are not famil iar with the details of group buying and so are unable to determine if such a policy is practically possible. Briefly:—to them the idea sounds good. It should be adopted. Co-operative buying in its simplest fo rm is the collecting of the similar needs of individuals into one unit . Plac-ing the order fo r this un i t at the source most favorable and paying f o r the uni t by a single payer. A f t e r these opera-tions are per formed the mater ia l be-comes available to the individuals in the amounts indicated when the pool was being formed. The individuals pay fo r their takings to the pool agent who has, as I have indicated already paid the producer fo r the gross amount . In the fer t i l izer and grain business the pool agent receives the car loads on a draft-bil l-of-lading and the individual! pay him, cash a t the car door fo r their takings. There can be many variat ions bu t basically the above is t rue co-operative buying. Now let us apply this to golf club buying. I will g ran t t ha t it is possible to get enough individuals clubs to agree upon one commodity to create a volume sufficiently a t t ract ive to a producer to

cause him to make a worthwhile price concession b u t who is going to act as the pool agent . Wha t individual or club will guaran tee the payment and auto-matically take upon itself all the detail of collecting f r o m the individual clubs who make up the pool? The dis-t r ibut ion cannot so easily be taken care of as the "cash-at-the-car-door" policy of the feed and fert i l izer business. Warehousing also will enter into the problem. I t still may seem practically possible to set up an organization to handle this work, t rue , but determine the total volume of business, est imate the maxi-mum savings and check this against the ^ cost of operat ing an organization com-petent to insure its sa t isfactory func -tioning. Truly co-operative buying becomes something more than a fine idea tha t ought to be adopted. Charles Parker ,

Belmont Spring C. C.

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(Republished f r o m August , 1931— Pacif ic Greenkeeper) N e v e r in t h e history of Southern California golf have greenkeepers had to contend with more trouble than dur-ing this year of 1931. What with de-pleted treasuries, heat and humidity, army worms and cut worms, and finally both variet ies of brown patch in enorm-ous quantities, i t would seem tha t the greenkeepers ' cup of woe could contain not another drop. And unfor tuna te ly the people who play golf will never v realize at what a cost the courses have been kept playable nor the herculean tasks tha t have been accomplished by individual greenkeepers and by green-keepers as a group. But even with con-s tant care it is safe to predict tha t had the heat and the humidity lasted an-other two weeks, scarcely a fine green out of the host would have been l e f t in Southern California. Even at this late date the greens are not safe because spasmodic outbreaks of brown patch constantly are occuring, but not to the alarming extent of a f ew weeks ago. At the present time, which might be termed a brea th ing spell, it would be well fo r greenkeepers to take stock of brown patch and see how f a r they have traveled towards a system of control of the pest. To say the most, they have

not moved very much. By the employ-ment of certain methods of cul ture and aided by expensive mercury-chlorine compounds the growth of the pernic-ious ailment can be checked, but tha t is about all tha t can be claimed. I t has been fa i r ly conclusively demonstrated tha t while the mercurial compounds kill the germs or whatever it is t ha t is di-rect ly responsible f o r brown patch, it also destroys those bacteria useful to plant life. Greenkeepers find them-selves in the same predicament as the ci trus growers who fumiga te fo r red — spider and a t the same t ime kill scale destroying lady bugs. It must be appar-ent to anyone who is an observer chat a continued use of calomel or corrosive sublimate cannot help but destroy all the life in the soil, fo r the compounds of mercury and chlorine consti tute some of the deadliest poisons known to man. B u t t h i s possibly is not the worst resul t of the t rea tments . Because the soil is so broken down the green-keeper must begin all over again in building it up, and herein lies the very grave danger of applying jus t a little too much fer t i l izer with consequent dire re-sults, especially if the weather is very warm. Many a greenkeeper wonders to this day why his greens burn t when only a t iny portion of fer t i l izer was applied. The same amount of fer t i l izers used in other years would have been wasted as being not enough to keep the grass s t rong and vigorous, but this year the presence of the highly corrosive chemi-cal fer t i l izers which have been applied to the soil in such abundance have tend-ed to dry up the soil water or sap, and ^m^ to feed high concentrates immediately a f t e r their application was f a t a l to fine grass. Pine grasses with their succulent growth never in their lives have much stored plant food and if a fer t i l izer en-gendered plant burn strikes when the plants are in a disease-weakened condi-tion they are gone forever .

I t is problematical what heavy irriga-tion has had to do with the develop-ment of brown patch, but my experience has shown tha t the greens which were irr igated most had the most brown patch. Nor did drainage have any ef-f ec t because the banks of the most heavily infected greens were effected worst by the ailment. There is a ten-dency during hot weather to throw vol-umes of water on the greens, perhaps more than the grass needs fo r healthy growth. Every available space in the soil is filled by water leaving no room

fo r the oxygen which is necessary fo r the continuation of plant life. Acquatic plants are an exception to this rule, of course, fo r they, through countless ages of specialization have learned how to take care of themselves in this regard. W h i l e s p e a k i n g of irrigation, the time fo r water ing must be considered. We know tha t brown patch develops during the night and on cloudy humid days. When the sun is shining and a dry breeze is blowing it hardly ever oc-curs. We know then tha t f o r its maxi-mum culture it requires heat , darkness, moisture, and an absence of wind, and yet we insist in keeping the greens sa turated with water all night long. This may be a controversial mat te r with greenkeepers and one open to heated discussion, but as f a r as I am concerned night water ing of greens is out. Another thing tha t perhaps we have overlooked during the hot, humid, brown patch period is the practice of cut t ing greens closely. The quali ty of service is as grea t among greenkeepers as any other class because if they do not please they lose their jobs. But the golfers ' demand fo r closely cropped greens is something else again, or should be. Un-fo r tuna te ly the golfers do not know this, so they get their greens like billiard tables whether it is good fo r them or not. Unfor tuna te ly fo r everybody con-cerned the grasses kick over the t races at this scheme of things, being unable to take in sufficient carbon dioxide to manufac tu re their extremely essential sugars. A f t e r they have used up all their stored starches which are made available as sugar, they burn up with a sort of a fever which either causes or is the effect of poor respirat ion in the plant. To complicate ma t te r s f u r the r , the roots declare a holiday, not having anyone upstairs fo r whom to work. Another thing tha t greenkeepers have discovered is t ha t the clubs which have been using high concentrates during the brown patch have been more infected than those clubs which have not been able to afford fert i l izers. If there is anything to this one begins to wonder if brown patch is something like gout, gout being an ai lment of high living people, half starved people not being afflicted. But in looking into the mat te r it is obvious that richly fed greens must be sof ter , more succulent, and grea ter sap containers than those grasses which have been fert i l ized lightly or not a t all. The la t ter would be more fibrous with less space

in the cells and with less mater ia l f o r microbes to feed upon. A green of this la t ter type of grass would be less likely to burn if fer t i l izers were applied during a warm spell than a green of richly fed grass. Perhaps a f t e r all greenkeepers have been t ry ing too hard to achieve the well nigh impossible: per fec t green 365 days in the year. There may be noth-ing to it but the f a c t t ha t clubs which could not afford to buy fer t i l izer were least affected by brown patch is bound to carry a lot of weight in this regard. I t has already been proved tha t the con-t inual use of ammonium sulphate is dynamite as f a r as grass is concerned and if carried too f a r will be absolutely fa ta l . Fu r the r it has been shown that even the smallest application of this chemical during hot weather will burn the grass to some degree, and tha t it will s tar t a violent a t tack of brown patch if the conditions are r ight , and they usually are. To sum the whole question of brown patch t rea tment , which is synony-mous with maintaining fine greens, i t is a vital fac tor fo r those greenkeepers with a reputa t ion to keep and whose love fo r their work is paramount . The wri ter has consulted with many experi-enced grass men and f r o m them has gleaned a considerable f u n d of inform-ation, which, coupled with his own ex-perience, suggests t ha t the following t r ea tmen t will help but not cure greens afflicted with brown pa tch : If either large or small brown patch is prevalent , give a dose of any of the advertised mercurial compounds to check the ailment, and then correct the soil condition by an application of crushed lime rock or any other available calcium material . Keep the greens cool by water ing f r equen t ly but lightly; do not allow ground to get soggy. Ref ra in f r o m giving greens all highly nitrogen-ous foods or any other mater ial likely to burn. An application of a loamy soil f r e e f r o m weeds and mixed with a good gradet of pea t will protect the roots f r o m the hot sun and furn i sh sufficient food to sustain l ife and keep the grass healthy. Raise the cut t ing height of the mowers to five-sixteenths of an inch even though the greens become nappy or slow to pu t t upon. Remember tha t it is easier to pe r fec t a s t rong growing green than a sick one and tha t a fu l l grown leaf will take in twice the amount of nourishing food t h a t half a leaf will. Spike or disc the greens occasionally to

permit the entrance of oxygen into the soil. These commonplaces are the best ideas t h a t a t least the wri ter has fo r the t r ea tmen t of brown patch. Until some heaven sent panacea is produced, the best tha t greenkeepers can do is to keep heal thy what grass they have by not seeking the will-o'-the-wisp of perfec-tion. AN IDEA

We had been hearing some of the experts say that we shouldn' t worry any more about brown-patch, tha t they can ^ ^ control it all right, and such remarks, when this season came along, and every-body feels t ha t they really know very little. Mercury compounds tha t controlled before were not of much use in some cases, grass scalded when watered daily, new diseases, or what appeared new, came to visit several. It appears to us tha t al though the work being done by the experts is good and will help, tha t more must be done by the greenkeepers themselves before we will ever get any-where in the control of these troubles. In talking with greenkeepers here and there, I find many conflicting opinions. I feel tha t many are of value, and the t ru th and value of them should be s i f ted out and all pieced together . I would suggest tha t we of the New England Greenkeepers Club fo rm a committee to be known as the Brown-Patch Committee, ( for want of a be t te r name) , and that this committee gather f r o m all of our members all data and thoughts and opinions, and t ry to work it all out and get some data which might help. In this connection, each member should keep records of every a t tack of any disease, its severity, greens affected, types of grass at tacked, control measures used, humidity and t empera tu re at time of at tack, etc. All this data could be analized with some benefit, and a f ew years might give us data tha t would end the trouble. Such data gathered would help the experts who are t ry ing to help us. The gather-ing of it would possibly help each of us doing it. If other district associations cared to work along such lines, we might pro-gress f a s t e r and bet ter . The success of such a plan would lie in the carefulness with which the data was gathered, its completeness, and the way in which it was all used. What do you think of the idea?

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A f t e r reading of others ' experiences with brown-patch this Summer, I am re la t ing mine. I bought and used two hundred pounds of Barbak 211 before I found chat Nu-Green was much bet-ter fo r my troubles. I surely had a lot of r ing patch (large) s tar t , bu t went a f t e r it a t the s tar t and prevented scars. I claim of the three, Barbak 211, Seme-san, and Nu-Green, tha t Nu-Green is the most effective as a control or cure. I had some scald but heavy water ing and light fer t i l izing is a g rea t cure. The only use I have fo r poling is to dry grass f o r cutt ing. I have tr ied pol-ing half of one green, and leaving the other half to dry without using the pole, and find the half poled was affected a hundred per cent more with r ing patch. This was done jus t fo r an experiment. I have a p a r t of my lawn of Rhode Island bent set off f o r experimental work. I am working on weed control, patch, fert i l izers, ants, watering, etc., and get a lot of f u n out of it. I would not think of t ry ing to control brown-patch without a two hundred pound pressure sprayer, bu t have found by mixing Nu-Green with screened loam and broadcast ing and water ing it in gives fine control. One objection I have to Barbak is tha t it leaves a grayish color to grass while Nu-Green seems to give grass a darker shade of green which I am very anxious to have. My greens are all one solid green color due to proper handling of fer t i l izing and topdressing. If anything on the marke t is good and I can be shown is cheaper f o r patch than Nu-Green, I am open to look it over, but do not want to take any chances with a dreaded disease like patch. Roland F. Robinson,

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The September meet ing was held a t the Charles River Country Club, New-ton Centre, Mass., on Monday, Septem-ber 14. The morning was devoted to an interes t ing examination and discus-sion of the experimental plots. Results of 18 hole medal handicap tou rnamen t held in a f t e rnoon are as follows:

1st ne t—M. McDonald—100-24-76. 2nd n e t — J i m Holden—97-18-79. 3rd net—C. O'Keefe—94-15-79. Most 3 ' s—James Sullivan. Largest gross—E. Polhamus. Special prizes fo r green chairmen won by: Mr. Pau l—1st net—89-15-74. Mr. Turre l l—2nd net—92-14-78. The club championship will be held at the Rhode Island Country Club, Barr ington, R. I. on Monday, October 5. Dinner a t 12; 18 hole medal play tournament a t 1 P. M.

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When the newly-crowned P. G. A. Champion Tom Creavy said that he put ted well because he never before had put ted on such fine .greens, and a well known sports wri ter wrote that the greens a t Wannamoiset t were perfec t , Mart in Greene received two well-de-served t r ibutes to the splendid condi-tion of his greens, and indeed his' course as a whole, during the week of Septem-ber 14th. In this year of brown-patch, scald, and other kindred troubles, when we hear of courses here and the re play-ing on temporary greens, and others re-seeding their greens, it was indeed re-markable to find Wannamoiset t in such wonderfu l shape. We know the struggle Mart in has had this year, and we hereby extend our congratulat ions tha t he has done such a fine job. In an exclusive interview with your Editor, Martin says he had luck with him, and especially so in tha t he had his greens sprayed jus t before the heavy a t tack of large brown-patch came early in July. Spraying with Calogreen every fifteen days since has prevented all small brown-patch, and near ly all of the large. Our congratulat ions are also due the Wannamoise t t Country Club officials f o r the able way in which this P. G. A. tou rnament was run. We feel t ha t i t was a credit to all New England Golf.

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The annual Fal l Field Day on grass culture will be held a t the New Jersey Agricul tural Exper iment Station, New Brunswick, N. J . on Monday, October 5. The meet ing will open on the experi-menta l plots a t 3 P. M., and will be fol-lowed by an evening meet ing a t the Hotel Woodrow Wilson, with several speakers and discussions. Those who grow bent grass fo r seed production have their troubles, as well as we who grow the bent fo r tu r f , as is noted in a recent le t ter f r o m A. N. Peckham of Kingston, R. I . : " I think I have had what you could honestly call "a Hell of a t ime" grow-ing Bent fo r seed production this sum-mer. Don't you think fo r a minute tha t the fellow tha t is growing Bent grass for fine tur f production is the only one tha t has t rouble along the line. The fellow tha t grows Bent grass fo r need production has just as many troubles, if not more than the man who takes the seed and grows it fo r fine tu r f . You have brown patch of one or two kinds, and various other f u n g u s diseases, and of course you have bugs, worms, and soil conditions tha t you have to sur-mount . Now in growing Bent f o r seed production we have to correct our soil conditions in order to grow it clear. That is if we have extremely basic con-ditions clover, etc. are bound to come into the picture, and the seed will be-come mixed with the Rhode Island Bent. To correct such conditions we have to apply acid react ing chemicals. We have our blights, and our blasts t ha t affect the grass in the fields. We have jus t the same brown patch as you have. It o f ten kills out areas and we cannot check it practically on large areas that are devoted to seed production the same as you can on small areas devoted to turf production. We also have different kinds of grubs tha t o f ten come in damp seasons and eat the root system of whole fields a t a time, and then we have the cussed a rmy worms. I have been afflicted with them twice in eleven years. Army worms are usually more prevalent in wet seasons, and when a rmy worms decide to go through a field of Bent they completely ruin the areas. If they should happen to go over a put-ting green they would only eat off all the green grass. It would s ta r t r ight in growing again within a f e w days. But if they go through a field of Bent fo r seed production they ruin the year ' s crop. This year we have had a new

pest. We don' t know what i t is. I t turns the hay completely brown before the seed is ripe. I t isn ' t any of the usual regulat ion f u n g u s diseases that we know about. I t appeared in several fields of my Velvet Bent. We have also had very adverse climatic conditions dur ing the summer to harvest the seed. The seed this year will not carry a high percentage of germinat ion and it will look brown because of the excessive amount of ra in ."

From a recent le t ter f r o m a promi-nent executive: " I notice the controversy now going on as to whether the man tha t does all the work on the golf course and is re-sponsible f o r not only the maintenance of greens, but the maintenance of every-th ing else, whether it be buildings, trees, bridges, creeks or lakes, should be called something else besides the green-keeper. The boys will have their merry little argument , and the thing will end up by the men who are really superin-tendents still calling themselves super-intendents, and the men who are more interested in being solely greenkeepers calling themselves greenkeepers . I notice tha t some of those in this week's discussion used the argument , "What ' s in a name? A rose will still smell as sweet" or words to tha t effect. This might have been all r ight in Shakespeare 's t ime, but a per t inent article in this week's Time suggests tha t if the late S ta r r Fa i th fu l had been named Sadie Schmitz she would never have got ten beyond the fou r th or fifth page. As it was, she had the f r o n t page fo r the past several weeks. Undoubtedly i t ' s the man behind the title, but the shrewdest concerns in this business realize that the tit le helps to make a good man a bet ter man, and tha t is the whole point which res ts be-hind the present suggestion to change the name." At Braeburn, rocks are being blasted in rough and fairways. John Shanahan also repor ts tha t they are busy fighting crab grass. Greens on which $200 was spent last year f o r weeding this year will cost but $50. At Charles River, dur ing the recent dry spell, a thousand f ee t of hose were used to wate r the new eighteenth fa i r -way. The 5th fa i rway was also watered.

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The second nine holes are under con-struction a t Riverside Golf Club, the State course, under supervision of Harold Mosher. This new nine is across the r iver f r o m the old layout, and seven holes will be along the river. Prepara-t ions are being made to seed this Fall.

The Winnapaug Golf Club of Wester-ly, R. I. has opened its gates to the golfers of t h a t town f o r September and October, with a reduced greens fee of a dollar a day. Fall work calls for widening of some of the fa i rways, and topsoiling areas on 14th and 15th fa i r -ways.

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W E I N V I T E C O M P A R I S O N S W e are so conf ident that our

spec ia l Fert i l i zer Mixtures for G r e e n s a n d F a i r w a y s wi l l im-prove your turf , w e u r g e y o u to m a k e a c o m p a r a t i v e test w i t h your present t r e a t m e n t a n d c h e c k t h e resul t s t h e b a l a n c e of tire season . This c o n f i d e n c e is b a s e d on t h e e x p e r i e n c e of G r e e n s k e e p e r s n o w us ing t h e s e mixtures . W r i t e for in forma-tion.

The Rogers & Hubbard Co.

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Fine Grass Seeds c a n n o w be b o u g h t at t h e low-est pr ices in years . W h y not t a k e a d v a n t a g e of th is oppor-tuni ty ?

Our s tock inc ludes a com-p l e t e l ine of t h e f inest q u a l i t y i m p o r t e d and d o m e s t i c grass seeds , a n d our a n a l y s i s f igures are ver i f ied by two , a n d s o m e t i m e s three , au thor i ta t ive sources .

A l l inquir ies r e c e i v e p r o m p t a n d cour teous a t tent ion . Thos. W. Emerson Co.

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L I G H T E S T IN W E I G H T . E A S I E S T T O O P E R A T E . A N D L O W E S T IN PRICE.

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The TORO "Knockabout" is a three wheeled, rubber t ired, motor driven conveyance to provide quick and inexpensive t ranspor ta t ion of operator and hand tools f r o m place to place on the Golf Course.

The power is furn ished by the TORO Park Special motor. Thousands of these motors are daily delivering sat isfactory service on power mowers, power cultivators and other types of equipment. This motor like the other TORO products is built within our own factory .

I t is to be expected tha t the first thought of using a machine of this type may appear altruist ic and perhaps amusing, but we are told by those t ry ing it tha t it has a definite place on the Golf course and a f t e r a day or two of joy r iding it has proven its worth in t ranspor t ing hose, sprinklers, cup cut ter , tee towels, ball washer soap, not to mention its value fo r messenger and inspection service.

Our desire this season is to secure and analyze as many repor ts f rom experience as the t ime will afford. This demonstrator is now in Newton, and it will be delivered fo r tr ial purposes, without charge to any member of this Greenkeepers Club f o r a limited period of time. Your only obliga-tion is to request the machine, and give us an unbiased repor t a f t e r you have tried it fo r three or fou r days.

This machine, like any other new product, cannot be purchased nor used unless it can by vir tue of its capacity demonstrate tha t i t will per form certain duties in an efficient manner . We believe you men can bet ter fo rm this decision a f t e r it has been given a first hand trial .

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