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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: | Organic fertilizers for fairways |
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| Section: | Question and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 9, No. 12, December 1929, p. 226-227. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "I have been a reader of the Bulletin for several years, but do not recall that you have urged strongly the fertilizing of fairways each winter with manure, a practice which has been observed consistently on many courses. Do you recommend a liberal top-dressing of fairways with manure each winter or spring?" |
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| Source of Question: | Illinois |
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| Answer/Response: | "There are several reasons why we have not strongly urged the top-dressing of fairways with manure, while at the same time we have not condemned the practice. Manure is yearly becoming more difficult to procure in many golf centers. Due to its scarcity we think clubs may be well advised to use to the best advantage such manure as they may procure; and it may be used to the best advantage in the making of compost. There are other organic fertilizers, possessing higher fertilizer content, which may be used more economically for top-dressing purposes, such as pulverized poultry manure, activated sludge (Milorganite), and cottonseed meal. The nitrogen content of manure is about 1 per cent, so that 1 ton of manure would contain only 20 pounds of this most important fertilizing element; while 20 pounds of nitrogen may be obtained in about 300 pounds of any of these other three organic fertilizers, which also contain phosphorus and potash, as does manure. It is the greater bulk of organic material contained in manure which makes it especially useful for mixing with soil in that it improves the mechanical texture of the soil. If manure is spread directly on established turf, much of its organic content is lost, since it can not be expected that such light, strawy material will work its way into a heavy, dense soil in this manner. Another objection to the use of manure for top-dressing purposes is that it frequently contains considerable weed and clover seed which, upon germinating, may be detrimental to fairways, whereas the other organic fertilizers to which we have referred do not contain weed seeds. Fertilizers for top-dressing turf should be purchased largely on their nitrogen content, since this is the most valuable element for turf fertilization. In this conection attention is invited to the Bulletin for June, 1928, which contains a list of plant food material contained in the various fertilizers. It is preferable to fertilize fairways in late summer or early fall, since the summer weeds are then beginning to disappear and turf grasses are recovering from the heat of summer and are in excellent condition to make good use of fertilizers. It is sometimes objectionable to apply manure to fairways at that time of the year, and therefore when manure is applied to fairways it is usually applied in the winter just previous to the spring thaws. The manure lying on winter frozen fairways over winter, however, does no good, and it may be that a great deal of fertilizing material is lost by being washed from the frozen ground." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Fertilization program; Fertilizer recommendations; Golf fairway maintenance; Manures; Organic fertilizers; Seasonal maintenance; Topdressing
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| Trade Names: | Milorganite |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also R=51181 R=51181 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1929. Organic fertilizers for fairways. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 9(12):p. 226-227. |
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