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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Treatment of peat deposits for utilization as top-dressing material |
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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. 73-74. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "We are sending you a sample of soil of which there is a large deposit available for our use. We are thinking of trying this soil on our fairways which, due to their sandy nature, suffer much from drought in summer. Your recommendations on the proper use of this soil will be appreciated." |
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| Source of Question: | Massachusetts |
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| Answer/Response: | "The material you send is very largely sedge peat. It would be of some value applied directly to your fairways but would be much more effective if it could first be composted or cultivated for about a year. It is very acid and not well decomposed. By composting it or cultivating and adding lime to it, its decomposition would be hastened and thus a very fine material would be obtained for use as top-dressing. The cheapest way to prepare it properly, provided it is possible, would be to drain the bed of peat and cultivate it where it lies. By running a few lines of tile or open ditches across the bed, provided with good outlets, the moisture would soon be drained out so that the peat could be plowed. It would then be well to apply about ½ ton of limestone to the acre and plow it in as deeply as possible. After the plowing another ½ ton of limestone to the acre should be spread and disked in. A disk or cultivator should be run over the bed every few weeks to keep it well stirred and aerated. After a year of such treatment the top layer of the bed would be ready for spreading on the fairways. If the bed is deep, the treatment as described above could be repeated and another layer prepared for the following season's use. If it is not practicable to cultivate the material in this manner in the bed where it now occurs, it could be spread on a piece of rough or some abandoned land and then mixed with soil. A layer of the peat should be spread to a depth of 3 or 4 inches and then plowed into the soil after an appliation of limestone at the rate of 1 ton to the acre has been made. It should then be disked occasionally. After a few months this mixture of soil and peat should provide an excellent top-dressing material for use on your fairways. If neither of these plans is practicable, the peat may be applied your fairways as a thin top-dressing, and limestone then applied at the rate of ½ ton to the acre." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Composting; Golf green soils; Peat; Recommendations; Topdressings
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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. 1930. Treatment of peat deposits for utilization as top-dressing material. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 10(4):p. 73-74. |
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