BUDD MFG. CO., Ravenna, Ohio OLD ORCHARD CREEPING RENT

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1 both of which factors make a little go a long way. In controlling sod webworms, one gallon of finished spray will thoroughly treat about one square yard of surface, which makes the cost extremely moderate. Moreover, one thorough application will generally guard against a return of the pests for the balance of the season." LAB REPORT APPROVES ALTA-CO AS GOLFER-FOOT PREVENTIVE Westport, Conn. Tests made by Pease Laboratories, Inc., and citing confirmatory remarks of the government investigators, give an excellent showing to Alta-Co, athlete's foot preventive, made by C. B. Dolge Co. Prevention of the disease is assured, according to reports of the tests, by immersion in a foot bath of Alta-Co and in other test cases cures were effected. Despite exposure to new infection, the cures were made lasting during the period of the test by treatment with Alta-Co, which is a material supplied for use in bath departments of golf clubs. W. C. TYSON NOW WITH BOLSA Chicago, 111. W. C. (Bill) Tyson has resigned his position as general sales manager of the Friend Mfg. Co. and has associated himself with Bolsa Supply Co. of Oak Park, 111., mid-western distributors of the Friend Co. Tyson will devote himself largely to furthering the golf course equipment business of the Bolsa company. "ELECTRIC CHAIR" DEALS DEATH TO INSECT OFFENDERS Chicago, 111. Frost Electric Screen Sales Co., 6 N. Michigan avenue, now has exclusive sales rights for Frost electric screen. This is a device having adjacent wires of opposite polarity. Current is stepped up by special transformer to voltage high enough to be fatal to insects but non-injurious to men or animals. Golf club kitchens and resturants have numerous installations of the screen. All Can Have Them Now! "Would like to have them but can't afford it" is a thing of the past. Increased production and decreased manufacturing cost bring this efficient, 4 cutting edge blade within the price of all. Write f«r new Price List "GG" and full details. A postal will do BUDD MFG. CO., Ravenna, Ohio BUDD BED BLADES buy <-m;i;\s H i n t I.ay them down like a carpet! u i l h s U t i n l Uviii I Hundreds of landscape architects, golf and country clubs, greenkeepers, parks, athletic fields. estates. homes. etc., use Illinois Grass Co.'s True Washington Strain Creeping Bent in solid turf form. Our greens withstood the heat waves of the past two years like nothing else. Furnished in rolls ready to lav down like a carpet. Extremely hardy and uniform in texture: is mowed with a putting green mower and is hand-weeded at our nurseries. Guaranteed to grow vigorously into rich, velvety greens if properly cared for. Our scientific nursery methods of propagation and growth are unexcelled. Also sold in stolon form, packed 250 sq. ft. to the bag, same high quality as the turf. We also grow Blue Grass sod. Write today for price«, samples and facts about our unusual service.,1. A. CARTER, Sales A»tent 75 E. Wmkrr I>rive, Chicago, or the nurseries at ILLINOIS GRASS CO Re i get Road, l>ept.»02. Home wood FRASER'S 1932 (10th Annual Edition) Ready Now Price $2.50 World-Wide Club Directory section, 9,000 Clubs. Separate alphabetical U. S. Golf Professionals List 2657 names. Fraser's Aims to answer every question about Golf. FRASER'S INTERNATIONAL GOLF YEAR BOOK 23 East 26th Street New York City OLD ORCHARD CREEPING RENT HARDY SOFT UPSTAXDIX«Economical to rare for OLD ORCHARD KENT «HAS* NURSERY Rox :i."» MadiNon. W i w.

2 Classified Ads* Rates: 10 cents a word per issue. Minimum charge $2.50 An advertisement in GOLFDOM saves the club officials time and money by getting responses from the best men available. The club department heads who advertise for positions in GOLFDOM obviously identify themselves as men who go after their problems in the right way. They are good men for you to give preference. Manager for town or country club; firstclass caterer. Can handle accounts. Good supervisor of personnel. Wife is able assistant. Will consider salary, concession or any equitable arrangement. Address: Ad 7005, % Golfdom, Chicago. Pro-Manager Age 37, family. Three years at present position. College education; business experience. Good player, successful teacher, with fine results in promotion and management. Member of I'. G. A. Best references. Address: Ad 7004, % Gvlfdom, Chicago. Club Manager 17 years' experience as steward, accountant, secretary. Competent to manage all internal departments. Highest testimonals. Address: John Benson. 315 W. 94th St., New York. Couple experienced in management of clubhouse and grounds, desires connection. A-l references, available immediately, anywhere. Address: Ad 7001, % Golfdom. Chicago. First-class greenkeeper and course constructor of extensive and successful experience now is available at moderate figure. Is expert in operating on low budgets. Highest recommendations. Address: Ad 7000, % Golfdom, Chicago. Caddie master, starter, etc., with thorough experience; ten years at last club; desires new location. Thoroughly competent, dependable and resourceful man. Scotch birth. 45 years old. University graduate. Due to war injuries compelled to be in open air. Excellent man for private or fee club. Also competent in club repairing and general duties. Address: Ad 7002, % Golfdom, Chicago. For Sale Excellent and highly profitable 18-hole golf course joining limits of city of twenty thousand. Address: A. W. Cline, Coffeyuille, Kansas. General Manager successful Northern club seeks Southern golf club for winter operation. Specialist in building memberships, increasing patronage, adjusting finances, augmenting income, balancing budget, maintaining course and developing good will. Address: Ad 6002, % Golfdom, Chicago. Need capital? Golf club operator with record of many years' experience in developing profitable club income, wishes to invest in daily fee or non-equity membership proposition needing finances and well qualified operator. Address: Ad 1505, % Golfdom, Chicago. Wanted Position as greenkeeper. I am employed as greenkeeper at present. Am married and could manage the clubhouse also. Can save money in maintenance. Address: Ad 7008, % Golfdom, Chicago. Greenkeeper-Pro D e s i r e s position anywhere. Well-known authority on maintenance, remodeling, landscaping, designing, construction, irrigation, soil analysis, turf culture of golf courses. Ability and integrity unquestionable. Available immediately. Address: Ad 7006, % Golfdom, Chicago. Pro-Manager Expert teacher, high credit standing, long experience, excellent references. Would consider assistant's berth. Prefers opportunity where economical management of course and clubhouse is appreciated. Address: Ad 7007, % Golfdom, Chicago. Veteran greenkeeper, highest recommendations and thorough experience in excellent maintenance at low cost, is available for new location. Thoroughly versed in every detail of maintenance and construction work. Can lie employed at moderate salary. For full details write: Ad 7003, % Golfdom, Chicago. Racks HANDICAP Cards John Willy Handicap Racks and Cards are standard with practically all the leading American golf clubs. Write /or booklet. JOHN WILLY, Inc., Mcrchand.se Mart North Bank Drive, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, U. S. A. TRUE METROPOLITAN and WASHINGTON CREEPING BENT STOLONS Cheaper than you can grow them. I will have a supply of excellent Stolons of the Metropolitan and Washington Strain of Creeping Bent, which will be ready for fall delivery, beginning about the middle of August. Let me book your order now. Special Prices. DR. H. B. PACK, Post Office and Telegraph Address, Pamplin, Va.

3 This Helps Your Buying Use this page to notify GOLFDOM of your club's requirements for course, clubhouse and pro shop, and you will get prompt and complete details from leading manufacturers. Mail to GOLFDOM, 205 W. Wacker Drive, Chicago. Announcement Ant eradicators Board«Athlete» foot preventive* Absorblne Jr. Foot-Rub Arsenate of lead Awnings Bars canvas. leather Bag Racks, tee Balls what price? ( ) Ball markers Ball washers Bath slippers paper, rubber, wood Bath towels Benches locker, tee Bent stolons Bird houses Bookkeeping system* Brown-patch preventives Buffing motors, supplies Caddie badges Caddie candy bars Caddie time-clocks Caddie uniforms Calks (for golf shoes) Caps Cheese Chlckweed eradicators Cigars, Cigarettes Clothes dryers Clubs Irons, putters, women's, wood, matched sets Club racks Compost distributors Compost mixers Deodorants Dishwashers Dishwashing powder Disinfectants Drinking fountains Dump carts Electric systems Fencing Fertilizers Fertilizer distributors Flags, flag poles Flood lights Club By... Position Address Floor, furniture wax Fly and insect sprays Furniture clubhouse, lawn. porch, grounds Garters, Gloves Ginger si* Handicap cards, racks Health scales Hole cutters, rims Hose water Hosiery Humus Ice-cnbe machines Insecticides Kitchen equipment Knickers linen, wool Laundry equipment Lawn sweepers Leather Jacket«Linens l/ockers Meats, tinned chicken, ham baked, ham boiled Mineral waters Mole traps, poisons Movie cameras, projectors Mowers green, fairway, tee, rough Mower blades, sharpeners Peats Pipe drain, water riayground equipment Playing cards Practice balls knit, rubber Practice driving device«practice nets Practice putting devices Prizes, trophies Pumps Putting cups Ruin Jackets Refrigerators Restaurant checks Rollers fairway, green. spiked Rugs Runners corridors, locker aisles Score cards Score card pencils Scythes motor driven Seed fairway, green Seeders Shafts hickory, steel Shelters, course Shoes Shoe trees Showers Shrubs, trees Silverware Soap bath, flakes, laundry Sockettes Sod cutters Soda fountains Soil analysing service Soil screeners Soil shredders Soil Sterilising equipment Sprayers, power, hand Spike Discs Spreaders Sprinklers portable, automatic Sprinkling carts Sweaters Swimming pools Tags, tickets Tanks Tea room equipment Tee boxes Tee data-plates Teeing devices Tee markers Tee mats cocoa, rubber Tees, patented Tee umbrellas Tennis court equipment Tractors Tractor wheels, wheel spuds Uniforms waiters', maids', caddies', bus-boys' Water coolers Water softeners Water systems Water system engineer Weed kiuers Worm eradicators Date 1932.

4 AUGUST 1932 Qolflom Editor HERB GRAFFIS Eastern Representative ALBRO GAYLOR 20 Vesey St., N. Y. City Tel. Cortlandt Published 1st of each month 205 W. Wacker Drive Chicago, I1L Tel. STAte Vol. 6 No. 8 Advertising Manager JOE GRAFFIS Western Representative DWIGHT H. EARLY 100 N. LaSalle St., Chicago Tel. CENtral 4158 Pacific Coast, HALLETT COLE, 211 New Orpheum Bldg. Tel. Tucker 6428, Los Angeles, Cai. EDITORIAL CONTENTS Midseason Survey Shows Golf in Good Shape. By Herb Graffis 9 How False Economy Steals Greens Budget. By T. H. Riggs-Miller 12 "Back to Player" Is Pro Keynote. By Alex Pirie 16 Dubs Howl for Soft Greens. By Arthur Langton 18 Pros Should Look to Lessons for Income. By B. R. Leach 22 Science Wages Webworm War. By Richard H. Vose 26 Pro Builds Own Fee Course. By Herb Graffis 29 Greens Boss "Tells All" 31 P. G. A. Membership at New High 38 "Old Doc Schacht" Prescribes Sales Remedy 42 Aeration of Turf Important Conditioner. By G. H. Kaley 52 ADVERTISERS' Acme Mole Trap, The 60 Allerton House 58 American Cyanamid Co 5 Bayer-Semesan Co Second Cover Buckner Mfg. Co 2 Budd Mfg. Co., The 61 Carrier, Lyman 60 Codeball Company of America 51 Converse Co., Inc., F. S 2 I)es Moines Glove & Mfg. Co 50 Diamond Calk Horseshoe Co 60 Dow Chemical Company 1 Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co 46 Florex Gardens, The Fraser Publishing Co Glens Falls Open 50 Godwin, Hiram F 4 Golf Course Commonsense Third Cover Illinois Grass Co 61 Kemp Mfg. Co 60 Kroydon Company 45 Lewis Co., G. B 54 McClain Brothers 54 McCormick Bros 2 INDEX McLaughlin-Gormley-King Co 55 Milorganite Nelson Mfg. Co., L. R 6 Old Orchard Bent Grass Nursery. 61 Pack, Dr. H. B ) 62 Peckham, A. N 57 Pere Marquette Hotel 59 Piccadilly Hotel, Inc 59 Pletzcker, Geo 56 Premier Poultry Manure Co 4 Pyratone Products Corp 50 Roseman Tractor Mower Co 8 Royer Foundry & Machine Co 6 Scott & Sons Co., O. M 6 Sewerage Commission, The Staude Mak-A-Tractor Co., E. G 56 Stokes Rubber Co., Jos 49 Stumpp & Walter 3 Toro Mfg. Co United States Rubber Co Back Cover Wanamaker, John 48 Willy, John 62 Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Co 41 Worthlngton Mower Co 53 Young Company, L. A 36-37

5 Soils? Grasses? Insects? Diseases? find your solution to these and other problems of modern maintenance in GOLF COURSE COMMON SENSE By G. A. FARLEY THIS valuable and practical guide to successful greenkeeping explains in detail, the methods of the country's foremost greenkeepers. A complete manual of greenkeeping in simple, usable form; each chapter is rich in working instructions. Partial Table of Contents Soils, Fertilization and Growth. Grasses. Fairways. Hazard». Weeds and Diseases. Equipment and Supplies. Greenkeeping in the South. Golf Course Trees. Drainage and Water System«. Tees. Putting Greens. Topdressings and Turf Repair. Birds, Animals and Insects. Keeping Course Records. Growing Choice Flower«. The price, postpaid, $4.00 GOLFDOM BOOK DEPARTMENT 205 W. Wacker Drive CHICAGO Use Your Green Section Research Service The two United States Golf Association experimental turf gardens at Arlington, Va., and West Lake Forest, III., and the 20 demonstration turf gardens at golf clubs have the answers to many of your maintenance problems. Practical, working course superintendents and the internationally noted turf scientists of the Green section, working in close association on a definite plan, have made available for you at these stations a vast fund of valuable course maintenance information. These stations always are open to visitors interested. At the turf gardens Green section men are in attendance and at the demonstration gardens the superintendent at the club will gladly explain the work and its findings. Make use of the Green section stations in correctly and thriftily solving your turf problems. EXPERIMENTAL TURF GARDENS WHERE GREEN SECTION RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED: Arlington Turf Garden, Arlington, Va. Mid-West Turf Garden, West Lake Forest, III. DEMONSTRATION TURF GARDENS GOLF COURSES: ON Charles River Country Club, Newton Centre, Mass. Hyde Park Golf & Country Club, Cincinnati, Ohio. Detroit Golf Club, Detroit, Mich. Lochmoor Club, Detroit, Mich. Meadowbrook Country Club, Detroit, Mich. Indian Trails Golf Club, Grand Rapids, Mich. Century Country Club, New York, N. Y. Upper Monclair Country Club, New York, N. Y. Wheatley Hills Golf Club, New York, N. Y. Keller Golf Club, St. Paul, Minn. Municipal Golf Course, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Philadelphia Country Club, Philadelphia, Pa. Pine Valley Golf Club, Clementon, N. J. Allegheny Country Club, Pittsburgh, Pa. Oakmont Country Club, Pittsburgh, Pa. Country Club of Virginia, Richmond, Va. Westwood Country Club, St. Louis, Mo. Royal York Hotel Golf Club, Toronto, Ontario. Tulsa Country Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, N. Car.