Greenkeeping Research

Abstract

EVERY question connected with turf production and maintenance comes under review at the St. Ivee Research Station, Bingley, Yorks, and a perusal of the Report for 1935 published by the Board of Green keeping Research shows how rapidly both the experimental and advisory work have developed since the Station was founded in 1929. The bulk of the money required to finance the work is subscribed by British golf clubs through the national unions. Free postal advice is supplied to subscribers on any green-keeping matter, and advisory visits are carried out at standard terms, the large number of requests for advice showing that the work of the Research Station is already widely appreciated. At the same time, it is inevitable that non-subscribing golf clubs are also reaping the benefits of the experience gained at the Station, and the Board urges all unions to consider whether the time has not come when every affiliated club should be required to make an annual minimum contribution to this work for the common good, at a fixed rate according to membership and size or number of their courses. A danger exists that if the present system of purely voluntary subscriptions is maintained, clubs which have supported the work liberally in the past may be unwilling to continue their subscriptions at the same rate, while other clubs obtain similar benefit for a smaller contribution or even contribute nothing at all.