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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Making compost |
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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. 6, June 1925, p. 142-143. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "We would like to have information as to the best way to make compost." |
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| Source of Question: | New York |
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| Answer/Response: | "Our present opinion, based on a lot of experience, is that the best type of compost is a mixture of about 80 per cent loam and 20 per cent manure. If more manure is used you will have more trouble from earthworms and grubs. The loam can be good top soil of a loamy nature; or if that is not available it can be clay loam and sand mixed until you get a soil of the physical texture of loamāthat is, something which when moist and pressed in the hands will break readily apart. This texture is necessary so that the compost when used as a topdressing will filter down into the grass and fill up depressions in the surface. Another common source of loam is well-rotted old sod. In fact, you can use any kind of vegetation in your compost so long as you get a loamy consistency and the manure content is not over 20 per cent. Better results seem to be obtained with a compost bed than with a compost pile. With a pile much hand labor is necessary in turning or stirring the material. With a bed not over 2 or 3 feet in height, the material is spread out so that a harrow, rake, or cultivator can be used on it and much hand labor thus saved. When the work can be done with machinery it is not so apt to be neglected as when the work must be dcne by hand. Moreover, the material rots more quickly when spread out in a bed than it does when piled up in a heap. The compost should stand preferably for a year before being used." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Compost system design; Composting materials; Loam soils; Manures; Recommendations; Soil texture
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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. Making compost. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(6):p. 142-143. |
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