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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Renovating fairways |
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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. 4, April 1930, p. 72-73. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "Our fairways, which are on sandy soil, have not been dressed or seeded for twelve years and are getting very thin and patchy. The following method of renovation has been suggested to us and we should appreciate your advice in the matter. It has been suggested that as soon as play is over for the season we take an adjustable disk-harrow, attach weights to it, and adjust the plates straight so that it cuts but does not turn the soil. This is to be drawn in four directions over the turf. A certain commercial fairway fertilizer and shredded cattle manure are then to be broadcast at the rate of ½ ton of each to the acre, and worked in by dragging with a large bundle of tree brances. A mixture of colonial bent, Chewings' fescue, and redtop seed is then to be sown at the rate of 75 pounds to the acre, and this also dragged with tree branches. The fairways are then to be rolled." |
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| Source of Question: | New York |
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| Answer/Response: | "On most established fariways we do not recommend reseeding unless there are large areas several inches in diameter with no grass. From what you say your fairways seem to be suffering mostly from lack of fertilizer. Hundreds of golf clubs have found that the same amount of money put into fertilizer will improve fairways far more than if put into seed. It is therfore suggested that you concentrate this year entirely on a heavy fertilizing program and perhaps follow it next season with further fertilizing of the areas that are still thin. Another year it might be desirable to put seed into the areas where the turf is still patchy. If established turf is poor due to lack of fertility there is no reason to assume that seedlings resulting from new seed will make any better turf. Old starved turf can quickly thicken and give a fine fairway if sufficient food is supplied. Sandy soils are much more apt to be starved than clay soils, due partly to the fact that plant foods are more rapidly washed out of sand than out of clay. All in all we consider the program you outline as a rather expensive method of treatment. On sandy soils there is usually little to be gained from disking established turf. In hard baked clay fariways there is some value in disking if it is proposed to work into the soil manure, other forms of organic material, or sand. When manure is applied to fairways it is better to do the disking after the manure is applied, so as to work it into the soil. Manure lying on the surface, whether the surface has first been disked or not, soon dries out and thus loses most of its value. Moreover, shredded cattle manure is one of the most expensive fertilizers you can use for the results to be obtained. You could probably use mushroom soil to much greater advantage than shredded cattle manure, and if this were disked into your fairways you would no doubt get much better results, since mushroom soil in addition to the manure it contains also contains some clay, which greatly improves very sandy soil. We suggest also that you get prices on other fairway fertilizers, such as activated sludge, poultry manure-tankage, cotton-seed meal, bone meal, and a number of trade mixtures of which you know the composition. On page 112 of the Bulletin for June 1928, you will find a list of the common fairway fertilizers, showing their relative fertilizer values and rates of application, and with the figures there presented and the prices you can get on the various fertilizers delivered you will be able to determine which fertilizer you can use to best advantage." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Application methods; Application rates; Fertilization program; Fertilization rates; Golf fairway renovation; Harrow; Recommendations; Soil management
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | related article "The fairway fertilization" The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section, 8(6) June 1928, p. 110-112 R=51181 R=51181 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1930. Renovating fairways. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 10(4):p. 72-73. |
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