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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Fertilizer to replace compost |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 8, No. 4, April 1928, p. 83. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "Will you kindly give us your opinion regarding a statement in advertising literature that golf greens can be satisfactorily maintained, and in face, better maintained without the use of compost for topdressing? What do you think of a published statement that the use of such compost is sometimes the cause of brown-patch?" |
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| Source of Question: | Ohio |
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| Answer/Response: | "We always look with suspicion on any new theory on golf course maintenance when that theory is apparently prompted chiefly by the obvious motive of increasing sales. Compost, in addition to carrying plant food, serves to improve the putting surface. There is still some question as to the best amount of compost needed for maintaining good greens but there seems to be a united opinion throughout the country that some compost is necessary to maintain a good putting surface. Many greens are kept in good condition with much less than the usual rate of topdressing, but in spite of all the elaborate claims made for some fertilizers, we have yet to see a clear demonstration which could be interpreted as adequate proof that a fertilizer can entirely replace compost, especially on bent greens planted with stolons. We feel that the published statement concerning compost as the cause of brown-patch is merely "sales-talk."" |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Composts; Golf green maintenance; Marketing tools; Rhizoctonia blight; Topdressing program
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1928. Fertilizer to replace compost. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 8(4):p. 83. |
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