The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-04-21
BIG IMPROVEMENT
AT COUNTRY CLUB
Grass Greens Are Being In
stalled and the Playing
Course Heightened.
WILL COST OVER $4,000
Pipe Line Connects With
City Water-Complete
in About 80 Days.

With the installation last week
of the waterworks system on the
course of the Sank Centre Country
Club, and the laying of a surface
pipe line by the City waterworks
department early this week, rapid
progress is being made toward the
completion of new grass greens
which are to enhance the joys of
golfing on the local course in the
future.
Connections between the Coun-
try Club waterworks system and
the City pipe line were completed
yesterday morning and everything
was in readiness for work on the
greens, planting of which will be
under the supervision of E. M.
Barrows, expert of the Toro Man
ufacturing Company of Minneapo-
lis, through which the bent grass
stolons were purchased. Dry soil
is required for the planting and
Mr.. Barrows intends beginning
work Monday instead of having
done so yesterday, as planned.
Many courses have had the SER
vices of Mr.. Barrows, throughout
the country in construction of
grass greens, including the Mini
kahda Club at Minneapolis, so that
proper installation is assured.
Piping on the course alone will
represent an. outlay of approx
mately $11OO, and a similar am
cunt will have been expended by
the City for over 1900 feet of 8
inch surface pipe, running along
the west side of main street north
to the southeast corner of the
Club property. Stolons purchased
for the nine greens, which will av
erage 1000 square feet of surface,
will cost $500.
A mixer, required for pulver-
ization of fertilizer and soil in
making compost, has been con-
structed during the winter months
by Charles Harrison, at cost of
about $3.50, a considerable saving
to the Club. Mr.. Harrison is in
charge of all the work being done,
ably advised by D. B. Caughren,
president Of the club, and by H.
A. Falk.
Besides the waterworks installa-
ton, preparatory work for the new
greens has been quite extensive.
Last fall much dirt was hauled to
elevate the surfaces, all of which,
however, was secured on the
course. Holes five and seven have
been heightened. Caretaker Bill
Smith has spent several weeks in
sodding the banks of the raised
greens, the sod being obtained on
the course, out Of the gully in the
first fairway. He has also raked
and rolled the surfaces of the
green's putting them in condition
for the planting of the stolons.
A description of bent grass may
be of interest. It is called "bent"
because it bends and creeps along
the ground. 1t is propagated from
the nodes or joints of the stems,
by the most approved method and
the most expensive, instead of by
sowing seed. The grass is gener-
ally chopped and spread over the
prepared ground, together with
compost, a--mixture of fertilizer
and pulverized soil, rolled in and
then waterei. The bent grasses
are favored to date for golf greens
largely because of their quick
growth and hardness. They also
lend themselves readily to weed
control since they are not harmed
by acidity of the soil, produced by
properly applied top-dressings of
prepared soil and chemicals.
II is possible to play on greens
so prepared in ninety days or less.