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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: | Preventing injury to bent greens from brown-patch |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 11, No. 3, March 1931, p. 70. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "In September of last year we planted four of our greens with bent stolons and the remaining five with bent seed. Neither the stolons nor the seed have shown proper development, and it has occurred to us that possibly we are too far south for the proper growing of bent grass. Our soil is a sandy loam and as a rule we have early springs and mild autumns. Do you think we would get better results with Bermuda grass?" |
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| Source of Question: | West Virginia |
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| Answer/Response: | "We do not think you are too far south for success with bent greens, as these are proving satisfactory as far south as points in North Carolina. It would, of course, be possible for you to have fine Bermuda greens during summer, but this grass can not be compared with bent grass for putting purpose, and has the disadvantage of becoming dormant after the first frost in the fall. Located where you are, there is no reason why you can not have success with bent grass. Your trouble is probably due to the brown-patch disease, which is particularly damaging to turf from June to late September. During these months it is necessary to apply fungicides to bent grass to save it from injury. The fungicide with which we get most success is a mixture of 1 part of corrosive sublimate to 2 parts of calomel, applied to putting greens at the rate of 3 ounces to 1,000 square feet, for the first application. The application should be repeated as soon as a fresh attack of brown-patch is noticed, at which time the rate may be reduced to 2 ounces to 1,000 square feet. If the applications have to be made within a week of each other, 1 ounce to 1,000 square feet is sufficient. It must be remembered that the application of a fungicide simply kills the fungus causing the disease and hence merely temporarily checks the disease. Therefore areas that have been allowed to become injured do not become green again until the injured grass has recovered new growth. In hot, muggy weather, when the conditions are particularly favorable for the growth of fungus, applications of fungicides may have to be made every week or so. Further information on brown-patch and its control is contained in the Bulletin for December, 1927." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agrostis; Choice of species; Cynodon dactylon; Disease control; Golf green establishment; Inorganic mercury; Mercurous chloride; Recommendations; Regional variation; Rhizoctonia blight
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| Trade Names: | Calomel |
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| Geographic Terms: | West Virginia |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also relateted article "Observations on brown-patch control in 1927" The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section, 7(12) December 1927, p. 237-247 R=51027 R=51027 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1931. Preventing injury to bent greens from brown-patch. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 11(3):p. 70. |
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