NEWSNOTES Michigan Turfgrass Foundation 1st Issue - January 1978

MTF 102

Pesticide

M.S.U.,

Michigan

Research

East

Turfgrass

Foundation

Center

Lansing,

Michigan

48824

Paula

M.

Dietz,

1978

Editor

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