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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Bone meal as a fertilizer for putting 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. 5, No. 9, September 1925, p. 213. |
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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 to begin (October) final topdressing on our greens for the season. They are in need of a good stimulant. We can buy pure bone meal from a local plant here at what we consider a very reasonable price in comparison with fertilizers sold by regular seed houses. Will bone meal itself bring good results? The grass on our greens is mostly fescue and in fairly good shape. Our soil is hard clay. How much of the bone meal would you recommend to use in topdressing for average size greens?" |
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| Source of Question: | Pennsylvania |
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| Answer/Response: | "Bone meal is a very good grass fertilizer, but for bent or fescue greens we prefer ammonium sulfate mixed with good compost such as we have described at various times in the BULLETIN. Bone meal, while quite highly nitrogenous, carries with it other elements that have a tendency to encourage clover and other weeds on putting greens. For the fall we have found a mixture of compost and ammonium sulfate–15 to 25 pounds of the former to 1 cubic yard of the latter–sufficient for treating 5,000 square feet of green. If bone meal is used, 10 pounds to 1,000 square feet is not excessive." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Ammonium sulfate; Bone meal; Fertilization rates; Fertilizer evaluation; Fertilizer recommendations; Festuca; Golf green maintenance; Topdressing program
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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. 1925. Bone meal as a fertilizer for putting greens. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(9):p. 213. |
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