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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: | Covering greens with stable manure over winter |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 10, No. 6, June 1930, p. 117. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "We have obtained a plentiful supply of well-rotted stable manure. Should we make a compost pile of this for use on our greens next spring, or put the manure on the greens as a dressing before winter sets in? Our winters are very cold, often the greens being covered with ice." |
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| Source of Question: | New York |
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| Answer/Response: | "All experiments and observations of which we have knowledge indicate that nothing is gained by covering putting greens in the North with any material in order to protect the grass from winter injury, but that in many cases much damage has resulted from such practice. In any case we would advise that stable manure, no matter how well rotted, be kept off of putting greens. It is almost impossible to get manure free from weed seeds. As a winter topdressing, stable manure forms a soggy blanket by the time spring has arrived, which is liable to smother and otherwise injure the grass at that season. Even in northern Canada it has been found that it is not necessary to cover putting greens over winter to protect the grass from injury. Winter injury usually occurs on poorly drained greens, and is not due to lack of covering. In certain cases it is due to snow-mold, a fungous disease which may be controlled by applications of murcury fungicides. As will be noted in the article on snow-mold in the Bulletin for October, 1928, greens covered over winter have proved to be more liable to suffer from snow-mold than greens uncovered. If greens in your vicinity suffer from winter injury it is probably due to the existence of pockets in them or to inadequate drainage." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Golf green maintenance; Manures; Protective covers; Recommendations; Winter injury; Winter maintenance
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also related article "Snow Mold" The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section, 8(10), October 1928, p. 198-200 R=51229 R=51229 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1930. Covering greens with stable manure over winter. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 10(6):p. 117. |
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