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Content Type:Q & A
Corporate Author(s):USGA Green Section
Title:Controlling ants and eradicating plantain
Section:Questions and answers
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Source:The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 6, No. 8, August 1926, p. 185.
Publishing Information:Washington, DC: USGA Green Section
# of Pages:1
Question:"We have been greatly bothered lately with ants appearing on the greens and do not know the best method to pursue to exterminate them. We should therefore be pleased to have your recommendations in the matter. We should also like to know what you would recommend to get rid of plantain weeds which are growing in one or two of the fairways and seem to be gaining on us very much."
Source of Question:Pennsylvania
Answer/Response:"We have been unsuccessful in finding anything which could be relied upon to rid putting greens of ants on a wholesale scale. In fact, the only means of getting rid of them that we have observed up to this year is to treat each individual nest with some substance such as carbon disulfid or paradichlorbenzine. This material should be injected into the nest and then the hole stopped up. We have this year however noticed on our brown-patch experimental plots at the Arlington Turf Garden that where we apply corrosive sublimate the ants are either killed or driven away, and while this is not sufficient evidence of the efficacy of bichlorid in this respect to justify a positive recommendation we feel that it is worth experimenting with further. We would suggest that you mix 2 pounds of corrosive sublimate with a cubic yard of compost, topdress 5,000 square feet of your green most seriously infested with these pests, and follow the topdressing immediately with a thorough watering. Corrosive sublimate has shown indication of being a very effective remedy for the brown-patch disease and is also one of the best known remedies for earthworms. With regard to the plantain in your fairways, we know of no means of getting rid of it other than digging it out or treating it with chemical weed-killers, which are likely to burn your grass to a considerable extent. Of course, in case of there being only a few plants scattered sparsely over the fairway, it might be found practicable to take a can of sulfuric acid and use some instrument similar to an ice pick, dipping this into the acid and piercing the crown of each plant. If the plants occur thickly in small areas, probably the best method would be either to plow the areas up or spray them with an iron sulfate solution consisting of 1½ pounds to 1 gallon of water. This treatment may have to be repeated three or four times during the season to get the desired results."
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Ant control; Golf fairway maintenance; Golf green maintenance; Inorganic mercury; Insecticide application; Plantago; Recommendations; Weed control
Language:English
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USGA Green Section. 1926. Controlling ants and eradicating plantain. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 6(8):p. 185.
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