DO 1 DEl S lIED BY HI OUTEVE IS The world's first machine which, through a unique pumping process, can rapidly remove surface water at the rate of 200 gallons per minute. Problem: Many millions of dollars are lost every year due to cancelled or delayed sporting events. Every season, playing conditions are unnecessarily bad, and turf is damaged due to soggy or flooded playIng surfaces, and very often management is forced to close the facilities. Solution: The WATER HOG is a high speed water collecting machine, developed specifically for turf, and can handle anything from a light shower to two inches of flood water. Highly effective for golf courses, stadiums, parks & recreation areas, race tracks, memorial parks, universities, and all other large high traffic areas. OTHER FEATURES CAPACITY • Rapid removal of surface water prior to and • Theonly machine in the world which can during tournaments. clear water from grass covered ground at • Preparation of greens for cutting in rainy the rate of 12,000 GALLONS PER HOUR season. (nearest competitor 800 G.P.H.) • Firms the turf and lessens potential mower and player damage in wet weather. LOW COMPRESSION • Water removal for the reduction of disease • Extremely low compression on the ground pressure. drive means that the machine can travel • Off green surfaces - water removal from across saturated turf without dameage to drainage swales, bunkers, cart path edges, the playing surface. primary landing erees, etc. WATERHO~ 4740 S. Ocean Blvd., Suite 416 • Highland Beach, Florida 33487 • (305) 394·0090 Circle 122 on Postage Free Card Sports Turf Nutrition in the early spring for fairways of Kentucky there are excellent slow-release fertilizers continued from page 30 bluegrass and/or perennial ryegrass. Bent- which help reduce the number of fertilizer zones and according to the amount of play grass fairways would possibly require a fifth applications. They will reduce the labor to on the turf. application. Monthly fertilization is advised apply fertilizers, but not the cost of the fer- Kentucky bluegrass requires more nitro- for bentgrass greens during the playing tilizers themselves. gen than perennial ryegrass, tall fescue, St. season. In a way, fertilization is like irrigation. You Augustinegrass or zoysiagrass. Kentucky Managers of athletic fields of common must first make a commitment to quality turf- bluegrass on high use fields and fairways bermudagrass, centipedegrass or ba- grass. Once that commitment is made it has may need as much as a pound or more per hiagrass should fertilize no less than twice to be followed up with continuing main- month, while the other turfgrasses perform per year and preferably three times. If the tenance and support. You paid for the hard- well on between half and one pound per turf is hybrid bermudagrass, try to make four ware, now you have to pay for the water month. Annual bluegrass also does well on applications, but avoid late winter or early and keep the system performing at its soils with moderate to high fertility. spring. If the bermudagrass is overseed- designed capacity. Maintenance programs with low fertiliz- ed in the fall, do not fertilize for a month Realistically, to provide quality sports turf er budgets can possibly get by with ba- prior to overseeding. You want to slow the you must make a commitment to quality turf- hiagrass, centipedegrass, red fescue and bermuda down so it will not compete with grasses which have moderately high fer- possibly tall fescue. The newer, turf-type the annual or perennial ryegrass. tility requirements. To invest in quality sod tall fescues however, require more nitrogen Golf course superintendents with hybrid or seed and then deny the turf the nutrients than the forage types such as Alta and K-31. bermudagrass fairways and greens should it needs to withstand sports is a complete The higher the sand content of the root be on a monthly program from late spring waste. Fertilizer is not an area for budget zone the more frequently fertilizers will need to a month prior to overseeding. The fer- cuts. If you have to cut the fertilizer budg- to be applied. A high portion of fertilizer ap- tilization program then continues for the et, you might as well write off the field or plied to sandy root zones should be slow- ryegrass. Southern superintendents with fairway. release. bentgrass greens need to be extremely cau- Finally, the home lawn expert does not The manager of a cool-season turf sports tious about fertilizing these greens during understand the additional fertilizer require- field on a tight budget should make every the summer and follow a preventative dis- ments of sports turf. Utility and lawn turf effort to apply no less than three pounds ease control program. have entirely different needs. Sports turf of nitrogen per year. This can be divided With the extremely high use of golf must be kept on a much more sophisticat- into three applications, the most important courses and sports fields today, fertilizer ed diet than utility and lawn turf. That diet being in the fall at the end of the football requirements are increasing. There is no has been standard on golf courses for years, season. Applications in spring and late sum- such thing as permanent, low-fertility sports but lacking on sports fields. There is little mer should also be made. turf. Poorly-fed turf will require annual reno- difference between the two as far as the Golf course superintendents in the North vation at a cost much higher than a properly nutrient needs of the turf if it is to provide should add a fourth application of fertilizer scheduled fertilizer program. Fortunately, a permanent cover under heavy use. 4.' IS YOUR FIELD A gmcuDiJecff}1bzd "WINNER"? BLUEGRASS SOD THE BLEND-Combination of 5 disease resistant cultivars chosen on the basis of adaptability to a variety of growing conditions. SOIL TYPE-820 irrigated acres of sandy loam mineral soil. ROOTING-Rapid establishment in any soil type with less water. Now Available DuPont Penncross TURF CREEPING BENT SOD NEWSTRIPE can supply the products to make your sports BLANKETS 75% Sand Base surfaces the most attractive in your conference. Our line markers and stencils are being used by major universities, Quality Supplier of school districts and soccer clubs for field maintenance. Seed, Fertilizer, Check these possibilities: Chemicals, and [II] Equipment. • Football • Basketball • Soccer • Playgrounds HUBER RAIICR • LaCrosse • Shuffleboard SOD IIURSERY_ • Baseball Schneider, IN 219/552-0552 nMSfAII'\5:::::c =Inc=. ====c • IN 800-553-0552 • IL 800-553-0554 P.O. Box 440881 CALL Aurora, CO 80044 1-800-624-6706 For Details 32 sportsTURF Circle 115 on Postage Free Card Circle 116 on Postage Free Card KANSAS SHOW FEATURES RHONE POULENC specialists to the team. Dan Stahl heads up the new Chipco team SPORTS TURF WORKSHOP COMPLETES UNION as business manager. In addition to the The Kansas Turfgrass Conference will fea- CARBIDE MERGER Chipco line Stahl used to market from New ture a full-day sports turf management work- Jersey, he now has Sevin insecticide, Wee- shop for the first time in the history of the done DPC and DPC Amine herbicides, Roo- event. The sports turf session will take place tone rooting hormone, Florel plant growth on November 2, the first day of the three- regulator and Temik pesticide. The ex- day conference to be held at the Ramada perienced Union Carbide product specialist Inn in Wichita, KS. John Durfee and Andrew Seckinger have been named product managers for the Chip- Larry Leuthold, conference chairman, said co Products Division which is based upon the workshop will cover drainage, wear, com- Rhone Poulenc's 26019 fungicide, Aliette paction and special maintenance techniques fungicide, Mocap insecticide and Ronstar for sports turf. John Pair, of Kansas State preemergence herbicide. University's Wichita research center, will "The addition of several former Union Car- report the results of wear/compaction studies bide products to the Chipco Specialty on four different turfgrasses. Nick Christi- product line promises to increase the utili- an from Iowa State University will focus his ty of the line to turf, landscape and ornamen- remarks on drainage systems for fields. tal managers," announced Dick Lehman, "Sports turf managers in Kansas work with director of specialty sales for Rhone Poulenc. four primary types of turfgrasses (tall fes- "Expanding labels and developing new use cue, bermudagrass, Kentucky bluegrass and Dan Stahl programs will playa vital role in our efforts ryegrass)," explains Leuthold. "Each has In some respects, Rhone Poulenc's pur- to serve these markets." unique characteristics which require the at- chase of Union Carbide Agricultural Four field salesmen and four research and tention of the turf manager. That's in addi- Products Company and its recently com- development specialists were added to the tion to solving the challenges of heavy use, pleted merger was harder on the buyer than Chipco staff. "We feel that the initiation of inadequate irrigation, poor drainage, com- on the seller. Completion of the merger in a full-time product development staff and paction and wear. We decided a special September was a relief to members of the increased number of field sales workshop was needed to provide these an- Rhone Poulenc's New Jersey headquart- representatives servicing these markets will swers to conference goers." ers who moved to North Carolina during the improve our ability to respond to the needs Interested turf managers should contact merger. Instead of cutting back, Rhone of turf and ornamental managers using Chip- Leuthold at Kansas State University, Waters Poulenc expanded its Chipco marketing co products in their management programs," Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, (913) 532-6173. group and added the Union Carbide Stahl stated.