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Content Type:Q & A
Corporate Author(s):USGA Green Section
Title:[Advantages of Highland bent]
Section:Questions and answers
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Source:USGA Journal and Turf Management. Vol. 2, No. 2, June 1949, p. 32.
Publishing Information:New York: United States Golf Association
# of Pages:1
Question:"We have read in the Agronomy Journal and in the USGA Journal that the Turf Committee of the American Society of Agronomy has recommended that Highland bent be substituted in turf-seed mixtures for redtop. What are the reasons for the change and what are the advantages of Highland bent over redtop?"
Answer/Response:"Highland bent is a close relative of redtop, but it has the advantage of producing a turf of more pleasing texture and color. It becomes a permanent part of the turf, but it acts as a nurse grass by germinating quickly, as redtop does. Highland bent is available in quantity, whereas redtop has been scarce and high in price because of seed-crop failures. Highland bent is less competitive than redtop when included in turf seed mixtures because it grows less coarse and less rapidly. Highland bent produces excellent turf when seeded by itself on golf-course fairways or when included in lawn, tee and even athletic-field mixtures. Its use in athletic-field mixtures thus far has been confined largely to the Pacific Northwest, where it is used in combination with Alta fescue. Because of its smaller seed size, three-fourths of a pound of Highland bent can be substituted for one pound of redtop. In a mixture with bluegrass, red fescue, or Alta fescue, Highland bent generally need not exceed 20 per cent of the mixture by weight."
Language:English
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ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1949. [Advantages of Highland bent]. USGA J. Turf Manage. 2(2):p. 32.
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