Turf for Golf Courses - Msu

254 TURF FOR GOLF COURSES
in, distribute it on the ground evenly, rake lightly
and then roll the ground firmly. Water when
necessary.
A light dressing of nitrate of soda, 100 pounds
to the acre, mixed with ground bone, 200 pounds
to the acre, will help the grass after its germination.
Put this dressing on immediately before a rain.
Scatter the seed evenly, ten to twelve bushels to
the acre.
Putting-greens.
The best putting-greens we have on Shinnecock
Hills were built as follows: In order to conserve
moisture, blocks of salt meadow sod, eight to twelve
inches in depth, were first placed in the sand, disk-
harrowed and cross-harrowed, until the surface
was evened up; a heavy coating of crushed lime-
stone was then placed on this frayed meadow sod;
then a quantity of the best sandy loam obtained
in the- hollows between the hills was mixed with an
equal quantity of our compost sufficient to make a
six- to eight-inch bed for seeding. Some greens
were seeded entirely with Rhode Island Bent, others
with Creeping Bent, sometimes sold in England
as "South German Agrostis," while others with New
Zealand Fescue, but the larger number of the greens