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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Use of muck in building new greens |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1926, p. 17-18. |
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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 an unlimited supply of muck in a piece of swamp land on our course. We are building 7 new greens, which are already contoured, and 6 inches of fairly good top soil has been placed on top. We are planning to cover this top soil with a seed bed composed of a 3-inch mixture of 60 percent muck and 40 percent sand. The muck and sand will first be screened. We have used this method before and it has produced wonderful results, but we would nevertheless like to have your opinion with regard to our plans." |
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| Source of Question: | New York |
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| Answer/Response: | "We hesitate to object to your plans inasmuch as you have followed them previously with good results. As a better plan we would favor the working of the muck, unscreened, thoroughly into the soil by the use of a team and disk-harrow, and the use of manure in conjunction with it. Muck in itself is generally very poor in immediately available plant food, and it decays very slowly. On our experimental grass plots we can still find muck in the original condition that it was in when we applied it 6 years ago. Furthermore, muck is a very light material, consisting mainly of vegetable matter, and dries out quickly when spread on a green, so that a good deal of it blows away. In our opinion a heavy rain would be sure to wash the bulk of the material off the green." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Golf green construction; Muck soils; Recommendations; Soil quality
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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. 1926. Use of muck in building new greens. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 6(1):p. 17-18. |
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