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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: | [Wetting agents on golf courses] |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | USGA Journal and Turf Management. Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1956, p. 31-32. |
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| Publishing Information: | New York: United States Golf Association |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "A great many "wetting agents" are being advertised in trade magazines. Do they have a place on the golf course?" |
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| Answer/Response: | "Wetting agents have been used for many years in connection with the application of spray materials. The modern name for a wetting agent is "surfactant", a contraction of the words "surface acting agent." They have sometimes been called "spreaders." Fish-oil soap was one of the earliest, and smelliest, components of spray mixtures and it was used primarily as a "spreader" or wetting agent. A wetting agent lowers surface tension and spray particles flatten out instead instead of sitting on plant leaves and bead-like droplets. This allows more thorough coverage and thereby produces greater effectiveness of herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and fertilizers used as foliar sprays. Wetting agents may perform another function for turf growers and this possibility has been long over-looked. Localized dry spots may be wetted much more easily if they are first irrigated with a solution of water and wetting agent. Even dry peat may be wetted quite easily when one of these materials is added to the water. Thatched turf areas behave in a manner similar to peat in that they are difficult to wet and therefore allow water to run off instead of infiltrating the soil. Fairy rings are partially caused by the drying out of the soil in which the mycelium of the causal fungus is growing. Wetting agents can help in alleviating these conditions." |
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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. 1956. [Wetting agents on golf courses]. USGA J. Turf Manage. 9(2):p. 31-32. |
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