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TURF PROBLEMS— Producing Results on the Golf Course— 



The Turf-Nut — Seed Selection 5-7 



THE SOIL— Making the Best of Poor Land— The Ideal Soil .... 8-9 



MAKING THE FAIRWAY— Time Required— Humous Mate- 

 rial — ^Plowing — Grading — Drainage — Enriching the Surface 

 Soil — Harrowing — Sandy Fairways — Selecting the Seed — 

 Mixtures — Soil-Testing — Seed Quality — Seeding IO-18 



BUILDING THE PUTTING-GREEN— Drainage— Soil— The 



Seed-Bed — Seed for the Green — ^Weeds — ^Turfing 19-22 



THE CARE OF THE TURF— Improving Old Turf--Mainte- 

 nance of the Course — Mowing — Rolling — Watering — Re- 

 seeding — Fertilizing — Sanding — Earthworms — Ants — Moles 

 — Brown Patch 23-30 



FERTILIZERS— Continuous Fertilization— Barnyard Manure 

 — Sheep Manure — Peat and Muck — Mushroom Soil — ^The 

 Compost Heap — Commercial Fertilizers — Nitrate of Soda — 

 Acid Phosphate — Potash — Sulphate of Ammonia — Bone 

 Meal 31-37 



WEEDS— Persistence of Weeds— Controlling Weeds— Methods 

 of Eradication — Crab-Grass — Pigeon-Grass — Dandelion — 

 Buckhorn Plantain — Broad Leaf Plantain — Chickweed — 

 Creeping Thyme — Pearlwort — Pennywort — Moss — Poa 

 Annua — Clean Seed 3^-45 



TURF GRASSES— Kentucky Blue-Grass— Canada Blue-Grass— 

 Red-Top — Rye-Grasses — ^The Bent-Grasses — South Ger- 

 man Mixed Bent — Rhode Island Bent — ^The Fescues — Chew- 

 ings' Fescue — Creeping Red Fescue — Sheep's Fescue — 

 Meadow Fescue — Bermuda-Grass — Carpet-Grass — Japan 

 Clover— White Clover 46-54 



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