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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: | Preparation of rotted tanbark for use as a top-dressing |
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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. 2, February 1930, p. 32. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "We are sending you a sample of rotted tanbark of which abundant quantities are available to us at an old dam near our property. This tanbark lies beneath a 1-foot layer of sand and leaf mold. Is this tanbark in its present state suited for use as a top-dressing on our fairways?" |
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| Source of Question: | Pennsylvania |
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| Answer/Response: | "We have tested your sample of rotted tanbark for acidity and find it is quite acid, showing a pH of 4.5. The material is not of much use for top-dressing purposes unless thoroughly mixed with soil and decomposed more than it is at present. A very good way to prepare the tanbark for top-dressing purposes is to spread it liberally on an area where it may be plowed in and cultivated from time to time. At the same time ground limestone at the rate of 1 or 2 tons to the acre, superphosphate at the rate of 400 to 500 pounds to the acre, and muriate of potash at the rate of 150 to 200 pounds to the acre should be applied and disked into the soil with the tanbark. It would also help greatly to apply as much strawy manure as can be procured and plow and disk it into the soil. This treatment of the tanbark will increase its decomposition, adding to the organic content of the soil as it becomes incorporated therewith, and will give you an excellent top-dressing material. Probably one application of the rotted tanbark in its present state will do no harm to your fairways and perhaps some good; if so applied, the application should be followed with at least 1 ton of rock limestone to the acre." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Fertilizer evaluation; Nutritional value; Recommendations; Topdressing program; 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. Preparation of rotted tanbark for use as a top-dressing. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 10(2):p. 32. |
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