How to Make a Good Turf.
11 Banger in the Sporting and Dramatic New» says :— When, early in the present century, the Duke of Richmond and Lord George Bentinck took the Goodwood racecourse in hand this is what they did with it. Four inches of mould were laid upon the old surface, on which another layer of turf was placed. Over this three inches more of fine soil were spread, and then a fresh layer of specially selected turf brought from a farm two or three miles away. The course is now reaping the benefit of this treatment, and it is a thousand pities that the Ascot authorities are not spirited enough to take a leaf out of Lord George Bentinck'a book.
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Manawatu Herald, 14 October 1897, Page 3
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122How to Make a Good Turf. Manawatu Herald, 14 October 1897, Page 3
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