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be pulled — never pushed. If pushed, and 

 the ground be soft, the footprints of the man 

 are left; and, anyway, a man digs in his toes 

 more when pushing than in pulling. 



"Another thing: do not, under any cir- 

 cumstances, keep players off the regular 

 greens at any time. The more they are 

 played on, the better, irrespective of time or 

 weather conditions. Play on them day in 

 and day out, the year around. They will 

 be improved by it, although it is hard to 

 beUeve this when the frost is coming out of 

 the ground, and deep heel-marks are left by 

 the players. Rolling will correct this. 



GETTING RID OF WORMS 



" Worms once in seem to flourish and multi- 

 ply if left to themselves. Thousands were 

 got rid of in one year by sprinkling 

 soap-suds on the infested patches, but great 

 care had to be taken on account of the pre- 

 sence of alkali in the mixture. In 1902 I 

 tried a solution of corrosive sublimate (bichlor- 

 ide of mercury). The formula is i to 

 256 — i. <?., one part of corrosive sublimate to 

 256 parts of water. Three to four pints of 

 this solution mixed with a barrelful of watel 



