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PAGE TWELVE The National Greenkeeper APRIL, 1930

Extra Land is Good Investment

THE size of the site must be carefully con-sidered. It is usually wise to acquire a few

(:xtra acres. This extra land may often be soldat a handsome profit. A country club alwaysraises property values and should be the oneto benefit. It is better to have an acre to sparethan to be obliged to pay a fabulous sum laterfor an acre or two to complete the develop-nlent.

The probable ultimate membership of theclub must be borne in mind when acquiringthe si te. Fee courses are likely to be unhap-pily congested if ample provision is not madeto accommodate large crowds \veek-ends andholidays. In many cases it is very desirableto have extra large fairways to avoid danger.

The accessibility of a site is one of the mostimportant factors. Golfers are reluctant tojoin clubs located too far away from theirhomes or places of business. Speedier auto-mobiles make time more of an element thandistance however, and the conditions of theloads to the links is of more importance thanthe actual distance. Often a short stretch ofill-kept muddy road is more of a detrimentthan several miles of well-paved highway.As a coun try club cannot con trol the upkeepof the roads in its vicinity, it should considerin advance the likelihood of such roads beingkept in repair.

While almost all families belonging to coun-try clubs have an automobile not all familiespossess more than one yet. Frequently while

one member of the family is using the car,another would like to play a round of twoof golf. Therefore, a site on a suburbansteam or electric line or motorbus route is adecided advantage. Such a location has animportant publicity advantage.

Bu t because a certain piece of land has beensuggested as a site for a golf course does notmean that it would be unsuitable. On thecontrary, it might be ideal for the purpose.There are many fine golf cours~ sites in everysection of the country. Probably some ofthe very best sites are still undeveloped.

A magnificent course, no doubt, will some-time in the near future be developed alongthe shores of Lake Michigan or Lake Erie inthe attractive sand dunes, the God-given landof golf. Here may be found a perfect site,m.oulded by Nature with its wind-made gapsand valleys that defy imitation. So it is theGreat Artist who makes the best golf coursesites. Man at his best is only an imitator.

Next Month-Designing the Course

Hawkins Appointed Organizer

H HAWKINS, green keeper, Lakeview Golf f1 Coun-• try Club, Port Credit, Ontario, Canada, has

been appointed by the Directors of the National As-sociation of Greenkeepers of America, as organizer forthe Canadian District. Mr. Hawkins occupies the sameposition in Canada as Lewis M. Evans of Philadelphiain the United States. He is already hard at worklining up new members among the greenkeepers ofthe golf courses of the Dominion of Canada.

THE 16TH HOLE AT THE PITTSBURGH FIELD CLUB

This hole was reconstructed about two years ago under supervision of the late John lv/cNamara, green keeper

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Impressions of the ConventionBY JOHN MacGREGOR

Greenkeeper Chicago Golf Club, Wheaton, Ill.

~ THE fourth Conven-~ tion and third Golf

Course EquipmentShow of the N. A. G. A.is over. It was by far thebest of any previouslyundertaken. When theconvention was awardedto Louisville for 1930I was doubtful as to theoutcome; it was very evi-dent however that suchdoubts were groundless.

It behooves me to giveGeorge Davies g rea tpraise for the efficientway in which he carriedou t his part of the pro-gram; he seemed to for-get nothing which would"

JOHN MACGREGOk make everyone's visit toLouisville a happy one. Not on~e was a green-keeper heard to sing the anthem.

The banquet and the entertainment deserve~pecial mention; it may be that George willhave to take off his hat to Columbus next year.

The afternoon meetings of W ~d., Thurs. andrriday were educational and instructive andattended by a greater number of Green chair-men and Greenkeepers than at any previousConvention. The program was of a highclass nature and given by men who are authori-ties in their different fields. I am sure it was2 great satisfaction to them to talk to such aninterested audience. There is no doubt every-one took something away \vith him from thesemeetings. We were fortunate in having suchmen as were on the program to talk to us.

The equipment and golf course supply showwas the finest we ever had. The exhibits weremore numerous and complete than any of ourprevious shows. Fred Burkhardt, who is get-ting to be a wizard at staging a golf show.outdid any of his previous attempts, all creditfor that show being due to him.

The outstanding feature of the show wasthe golf hole constructed by George Davies on\vhich he used bent turf taken from his course.

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I~ was a fine piece of work, and ought to pro-vIde the promoters of indoor courses with foodfor thought.

The greens constructed by Charles Ericksonand Joe Valentine were also a novelty at theshow. Among other things it should openthe eyes of golf club officials as to the abilityof green keepers to cope with the design andconstruction of golf holes. The men who as-~isted in the construction of the two greens atthe golf show are men of high repute in thegreen keeping world.

The exhibits were numerous and well staged.The exhibitors had, I believe, more salesmenthan at previous shows, which I am sure waslnore 'profitable to them. Green chairmen andgreen keepers were given courteous treatmentby these men. Description advantage, relia-bility, mechanism, etc., was gone into verythoroughly, and I believe many sales in thenear future will be the result.

We are proud to list in our honorary mem-bership, Prof. L. S. Dickinson of Amherst,Mass., who gave us a most instructive andeducational address on the ever present sub-

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It was a great satisfaction to have our Presi-dent made a Colonel of Kentucky on the Gov-ernor's Staff, also to see him reelected for an-other year to carryon as head of our organiza-tion. He is to be congratulated for his goodjudgment in choosing his committee chairmen,and the efficient manner in which the wholeConvention and Show was conducted.

Bezek Names CommitteesPresident Matt Bezek of the Midwest Green-

keepers Association announced his committees for1930 at a recent meeting held in Chicago.

The executive committee will be the officers of theassociation.

Membership committee-Fred Kruger, Chairman,Olympia Fields; C. A. Tregillus, Mill Road FarmC. C.; P. Stewart, Lake Shore C. C.

Tournament Committee-J. T. Langell, L. J.Norris private estate; F. Mastroleo, Geneva GolfClub; Alfred Buller, Lakeside, Michigan.

Speaker and entertainment committee-F. Ingwer-son, Bunker Hill; A. L. Brandon, St. Charles C. C.;A. H. Abrahmson, Rob Roy C. C.

A paper on course architecture was well received bymembers; it was submitted by Pete Stewart of LakeShore C. C.

It was decided to start the outdoor meetings onthe last Monday in each month beginning withApril.

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High ...Speed GreenkeepingBY w. D. CHINERY, Greenkeeper

York Downs Golf Club, Toronto, Ontario

GRASS, grass, more grass, and mind the sound reasoning in thebetter grass. This has been old adage that which is one man'sthe slogan for many years but meat is ofttimes another man's

never perhaps in the annals of pOlson.grass-growing has the desire or de- In the old days it was alwaysmand for better production been so considered good judgment to avoidkeen as at the present time. Not the use (whenever possible) of anyonly on golf courses' alone is this fertilizer that was of a hastening orapparent but owners of private es- burning nature for a permanenttates and officials of cricket, tennis, crop and this applies to grass on aand bowling greens all vie with one golf course. Any food that is con-another in producing the, best. w. D. CHINERY ducive to quick growth must of

There are at least two outstanding points in necessity mean a soft and somewhat coarseconnection with the cultivation of grass which growth and in many cases this is forced toohave occupied the attention of those who are much at the expense of the root which underresponsible for its production as never before, certain conditions cannot develop at the sameviz: bent grasses and brown patch disease. rate. especially during the hot Summer months.From \vhat source has the latter sprung? It and thereby hangs a tale.appears to me that it has developed along with Cannot Outrage Naturethe intensive culture of bent grasses. ONE cannot outrage nature for long at a time

When one considers and enumerates the long without suffering the consequences. We aslist of fertilizers, both chemical and organic, green keepers have been in certain respects led byhumus, etc. that the ear so to speakare placed on the wi th regards tomarket, good. bad the treatment ofand indifferent. our grasses bywith the endeavor so me "experts"to produce two with their theo-blades of grass retical bunkum sowhere one grew t hat years ofbefore, one may practical experi-ask this question ence often gained-are we not us- under adverse con-ing too much dope ditions have beenfor the production thrown in the dis-of good heal thy card. For a longturf? Personally. time we have beenI think we are. It told to render ouris not the use so soil acid by appli-much perhaps as it cations of chemi-is the abuse that cats, to procure atells the tale and sourness in ourwe should bear in NUMBER4 HOLE,YORKDOWNSCLUB,TORONTO,aNT. soils for the bene-

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In certain respects and conditions extremeacidity goes hand in hand with brown patchdisease or should I use the term algae? Theaverage horticulturist and farmer have forman y years recognized the value of sheepman ure for certain crops, especially grass, ow-ing chiefly to the acid con tained in the excre-ment, etc. but allow me to say that the acidcon veyed to the soil through the manurialproperties of sheep manure is vastly differentto that produced by continued application ofchemicals. Results speak for themselves andthe reason is obvious.

As our very worthy President, Mr. J. Mor-ley, has intimated in a previous article, we areliving in the age of the motor car, the aeroplaneand the radio, and in consequence the general

i feeling is perhaps that we must speed up tokeep pace with the times. And that pace. hasbeen set to some extent in some quarters andto whom our worthy Editor, Mr. Power,sounded a warning note in his editorial of Jan.,1929. Some of us no doubt err on the oneside by being too cautious or old fashioned inour methods while others probably err more

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by jumping to conclusions or otherwise. Withthe multitudinous assortment of fertilizers thatare to be obtained today and with the desireto maintain and keep our courses verdant andin the pink of condition during the playingseason, are we not prone to overdo this and inso doing are we not apt to overlook DameNature?

Brown Patch Disease and Patches

MY experience is that B. P. D. attacks certainbent grasses more severely than other

grasses. As a matter of fact I have never seenthis disease on any grasses but bent. With usthe fescues, Kentucky blue, P. E. 1., bent andvelvet bent seems immune from the disease.We have quite a lot of native bent, P. E. 1. andSou th German ben t on most of our fairwaysbut have never seen any of it attacked by B. P.D. or Algae with the exception of certainpa tches in proximity to the greens, then onlyslight. Here then surely is food for thought.Is brown patch disease hereditary to certainbent grasses and by taking them somewhat outof their elemen t are we engendering this diseaseby in tensive culture in the way of fertilizing.too close cu tting, etc?

Having read the many articles on B. P. D.that have appeared in our magazine I cannothelp but think that some of them appear ratherconflicting; for instance, one may read thatanyone having greens situated in the open oron high ground need not fear B. P. D. Othersappear to differ in this respect. Then againone may read \vhere others rely on sulphate ofammonia to bring their grass back to normalagain after or during an attack of the disease.On the other hand there are some who elimi-nate this food during B. P. attacks and on thispoint I for one fully endorse. The answer orargument. if any, is perhaps ans¥lered best bythe old adage quoted above.

I t seems to me that with the in traduction ofa lot of new foods or fertilizers for the produc-tion of good turf and incidentally ofttimes atoo luxuriant gro\vth follows such applica-tions and some of us are apparently satisfied\vith the results obtained; then comes mid-season with its horrors of B. P. D. and we arecalled upon to invest in another chemical out-lay to coun teract this disease. Though \ve

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