Turf for Golf Courses - Msu

100 TURF FOR GOLF COURSES
but stored seed usually sprouts promptly if planted
when the weather is warm enough .
. Seed of Japan Clover is now commercialized and
can be purchased in any quantity at reasonable
prices either hulled or unhulled. It is handled by
all southern seedsmen.
In the North it should be seeded rather thickly
so as to secure a thick stand of tud quickly. Its
ability to grow on the poorest and hardest soil is such
that no previous treatment of the land is necessary,
but if sown on thin slopes it may wash down during
heavy rains. On such places, therefore, the soil
should be scratched or the seed covered with a little
soil. Where the tud is bunchy, Japan Clover is
one of the best plants to fill in the cuppy interstices.
Heavy seeding is desirable, about one bushel to th~
acre where turf is thin.
It still remains to be determined just how far
northward Japan Clover can be used with satisf~c-
tion on golf courses, but with little doubt it will be
found valuable at least as far north as indicated by
the limit on the map (Fig. IS). Its very high value
as far north as the southern line of Pennsylvania,
where it persists naturally, leads to the conclusion
that it will be valuable much farther north. Until