Georgia forestry, Vol. 2, no. 10 (Oct. 1949)

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Georgia forestry

Forestry Promoted

(from the Austell Enterprise) By Trade Group

HELP PRESERVE
GEORGIA'S FORESTS
Today Georgia is blessed with a rich and bountiful forest. Her VIOodlands occupy more than half of our state's total area. Many of us make a living from producing forest products, while others of us find many valuable uses in many of the i terns produced.
For instance we read a newspaper which is produced from pulpwood. Somebody offers us a cigarette and we light it with a wooden match. During the winter months we use V\Ood for our stove.
Ceorgia's trees also play a big role in conserving our soil and cultivating our crops, such as tobacco, corn and cotton. Trees help to conserve the rainfall, too.
All of these benefits are given to us by Georgia's great forests. A gift such as this should be cherished and a reasonable effort made to conserve it.
Forest fires are the worst enemy to the woodlands of our state. Through carelessness and indifference, acres of Georgia's woodlands are being .devastated by fire! Trees are destroyed , others slowed in growth, seedlings are killed, and damaged trees are left more susceptible to insects and disease.
What measures can be taken to stop all this?
For one thing, in clearing land for some special reason, use tools other than fire. In burning woodlands for the cattle to graze, be careful that fire doesn't spread and cause damage to the land belonging to others. And in all other situations dealing with that dreaded ha~~~_!ire, i n the woodlands--FE ~1IOOS, ALWAYS!
The daily life of every citizen is affected by the attitude toward Georgia's forests.

The rapid growth of timber and the work of the Decatur County Forest Protection Unit are featured in a folder published by the Fainbridge and Decatur County Chamber of Commerce. The informational folder is designed to promote Dec~tur County's business, agricultuTal and industrial opportunities.
A stand of "fast growing V,ine timber from natural seeding 'is pictured and one paragra~h asserts, "Timber grows rapidly 1n Decatur County and there are several sawmills and two box factories to utilize all kinds of timber ....... The rapid growth of pine timber, both long leaf and slash, makes timber and its associated products very essential to the welfare of this section.
"Millions of young pine trees have been planted during the past few years" it was stated. "Orders have been'sent to nurseries for over three million seedling pines to be planted in Dec~tur Coun~l alon~ during the plant1ng season

The Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association will hold ~ts 19~0 annual meeting at the P1ltmore
? otel, Atlanta, on Wednesday, February 15. Announcement of the se-
lection of this date and place for the yearly meeting was made by Henry Malsberger, Forester, of the
association.

Georgia Forestry

Vol. 2

October,l949

No. 10

A monthly bulletin published by the Georgia Forestry Commission, 4~~ State tapitol, Atlanta. Entered as second-class matter at the Post
Office, Atlanta~ Ga., under the act
of August 24, 1Yl2. Member, Ceorgia
Press Association.

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~ extensive research program, des1gned to determine the best method of managing forests of the Piedmont Plateau for the various owner objectives, is being carried on in Georgia and Alabama. Research foresters engaged in the study are members of the Southern Piedmont Branch Station of the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, U. S. Forest Service. The group has headquarters in Macon and does research on the 5,000-acre Pichiti Experimental Forest in Jones County.
The research serves the entire lower Piedmont Pegion of Georgia and Alabama and the studies are made on a commercial scale, using

approximately 40 acres as a test un1t. The research includes determination of best management methods for the production of pulpwood, sawtimber, and high qual1ty specialty products. Systems for restocking areas and for highest volume and quality production are being studied, along with investigations into the financial and economic aspects of forest management.
Guyton DeLoach, director of the Georgia Forestr{Corrmission, attended a meeting o the National Association of State Foresters held at Hot Springs, Arkansas, October 3-6.

GEORGIANS fEATURED ON NATIONWIDE BROADCAST
RalPh.McGill, editor, Atlanta. Constitution, left, taLks with M.E. Murphy, Supenntendent, Herty Nursery, Albany, right, over a. WCON (Atlanta.) mike. ~~ey wer~ among t~O!}e po.rti ci po. t.ing recently in a. program publicizing the
e of m~nero.l sp~r~t~ o.s weed k~llers in tree nurseries. The program was a. feature of the Amenco.n Broadcasting Company's "American farmer" series.

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Georgia forestry

Forest Farlll.er Manual

Will Be Published

Do you know exactly what steps you can take to protect your woodland from fire? Do you know what is the best species of trees to plant and how many per acre, depending on the spacing? Do you know the specifications you must meet if you sell poles, pulpwood or other forest products.
These and many other questions will be answ-ered in "The Forest I'armer Manual" which is to be published in February by the Forest Farmers Association.

operator to have at hand for ready reference.
"The Forest Farmer Manual" will be distributed to the membership of the Association and to those who place advance orders for the publication. All orders should be accompanied by payment and should be mailed to the Forest Farmers Association,' P. 0. Pox 692, Valdosta-, Ga.

This Manual is something new in the field of hel~ for the timberland owner. It w1ll be prepared in a manner easily understood by every person who has anything to do with woods work, either in growing a timber crop or in harvesting the
crop. There will be tables, charts, and other practical and useful information which is needed almost every day in woodland activities.
While some of this information is available and can be obtained from a large number of different bulletins and publications, it has not been possible to put your fin~ ger on one publication which brings all of this material under one cover. The Manual will not be a text book, but it will be a working guide. For those who want more detailed and technical information it will contain references to other sources of material.
This initial edition of "The Forest Farmer Manual" will rerlace the usual February issue o the Forest Farmers Association regular magazine, "The Forest Farmer". It is planned that this will become an annual issue which will be revised and improved annually in order that the material may be the best obtainable and the most current that can be found. The Manual will be a
"must" for every forest owner and

:this "Georgia :tree farm" sign on the property of Union Bag and Paper Company in Atkinson County means good fire protection, good management and cutting practices, and sustained high vo~ume and quality Production of forest Products. :this is one of Georgia's 26 :tree farms, comprising more than 335,000 acres of wood~and and varying in size from 73 to 208,000 acres. :these new, attractive green-and-white ":tree farm" signs are being distributed to :tree farmers throughout the State.
CFFP Slogan To
Stress Fire Waste
The slogan "Our Yost Shameful Waste" will feature the 1950 Coop- ', erative Forest Fire Prevention Campai~ of the State Forestry organizations, the U. S . Forest Service and the Advertising Council.
The great emotional appeal of. the slogan will carry a direct, forceful message to the public, and will strongly emphasize the fact that forest fires are in fact ''CUe Most Shameful Waste".

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editor of The Atlanta Journal prior to enlisting in the Anny in 1942.
Cuyton DeLoach, director of the Georgia Forestry COmmission, announced that Stout would be succeeded by Richard E. Davis who is now assistant educational forester. Mr. Davis is a graduate forester who also studied journalism at Fmory University.

Smokey, The Forest Fire Preventing Pear, has popped up in the popular comics!

Ed Stout Named
To AFPI Staff
Ed Stout has resigned as infonnation and education chief for the Georgia Forestry COmmission to become southern manager of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., a national educational association of lumber, pulp and paper, and plywood industries.
The organization has headquarters in Washington, D.C., with field offices in New Orleans, Poston, and Portland. Stout wi 11 have headquarters at New Orleans.
~ational sponsor of the American Tree Farm program, AFPI also promotes the "Keep America Green" movement for forest fire prevention and other projects to encourage better management and protection of forest lands. Charles A. Gillett is managing director.
Stout joined the Georgia Forestry Commission two years ago. He studied journalism at the University of Georgia and served as farm

The National Comics group created and is sponsoring a full-page forest fire prevention cartoon story in current issues of 33 comic magazines. Ten million copies of these magazines carry the picturestory of how "Smokey, the Forest Fire Preventing Pear, Comes to the J~escue of Peter Porkchops".
Arrangements for publishing of the cartoon were made by the National Advertising Council as part of the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention campaign. Use of the ad emphasizes the growing popularity of Smokey as the trademark for forest fire prevention.
Fire Loss Reduced
The acreage of protected Georgia fonst lllnd burned during 194~ was substantially less tb~:n the averal;P rocreage burned yearly during the period 1944-1941'. The nurrl-er of fires on protected 1and in Georgia was also below the average for the five year!>, 1944-1948, inclusive.
These figures, contained in a recent survey made by American Forest Products Industries, Inc. show definite progress in decreasirot, the fire loss on protected land, and demonstrate the increa~ar effectiveness of the prevention, detection r>nd :wpprt>ssion activities of the county forest protection units.

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Georgia forestry

"Birth of a Pine"

Is Title Of New

Forestry Movie
"Firth of a Southern Pine'' is the newest movie to be released by the Ceorgia Forestry Commission through their film library facilities. It is the third in a series of educational forestry films sponsored by the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association and the Georgi a Forestry Commission.
Describing the film, H. J. Mats-
berger, Forester of the Association~ says "'Birth of a Southern Pine' vividly portrays the interesting process of reproducing a pine tree. The biological functions of the male and female flowers resulting in the pine burr, followed
by the ~eed, and finally the seed-
ling growing in the grass on its way to becoming a mature tree, makes the picture of unusual interest to those not intimately associated with the woods.
"It affords a course in nature study insofar as trees are concerned, which will help all those observing the forests to better appreciate Nature's struggle to reproduce a tree crop in spite of her enemies, largely created by man through fire, and unwise cutting methods", ~-~alsberger says.
The 1S-minute movie is filmed in color with sound. It will be especially valuable to schools because of the scientific approach and will give general forestry information to all types of forestry gatherings. "Firth of a Southern Pine" may be ordered from the Georgia Forestry Commission, 435 State Capitol, Atlanta. All films offered by the Georgia Forestry Commission are for l6mm projectors.
Two other films already have b~en released by the SPGA. The f1 rst of these was "Lonnie's r<:ew Crop'\ pertaining to tree planting and the importance of reforestation. The other, "Fire Call", shows the importance of providing organized fire control units to prot e ct the forest land of the South .

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ANOTHER fORN Of fiRE PROTECTIO
The Centra~ of Georgia Railroad has plows cut the breaks a~ong both sid, will be between the tracks and the" woods.

A new gum processing plant has been placed in operation at Tifton by the Columbia Naval Stores Company. The new plant which has a daily processing capacity of 840 standard barrels replaces the plant d~troyed by fire last spring.
The new plant incorporates the newest development in still design, with about three times more liquid surface area than the usual still. The plant has four dumping vats, each with a capacity of 125 standard barrels of gum. The plant's. four huge wash tanks each hold 125 barrels of gum. The three storage tanks have a combined capacity of
125,000 gallons.

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ed pre-suppression firebreaks aLong many miLes of right-of-way. T;actors.and tracks at sufficient distance to insure that fires started by pass~ng.eng~nes The fires can then be readiLy suppressed before the fLames reach ~nto the

Georgians Get Alcohol Plant

Lease of an experimentai industrial alcohol plant at Springfield, Ore., to three Georgians has been reported from Washingto~ D. C. by the Associated Press. 1ne Georgians, all of Americus, were listed as Olarles P. Hudson, Jr., William S. Hudson and Mrs. W. E. Mitchell.
The news account reported War Assets officials as saying the Georgians plan to use the plant to determine whether production of industrial wood waste is practical. The plant cost the government three million dollars, the AP said.

Permanent officers of the Ceorgia chapter of the Southeastern section, Society of American Foresters, were elected recently at a meeting held at ~aeon.
The officers include: Professor A. E. Patterson, member of the faculty of Peabody School of Forestry, University of Georgia, chairman; L. C. !-tart, Jr., assistant state forester, vice chairman; C. Ed Knapp, of ~'aeon, secretary-treasurer.

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Georgia forestry

Hubert Billue, Ranger, Wilkinson Gbunty, recently sponsored an essay contest for all 4-H club members in his county. The essay title was
"v.hy Prevent Forest Fires". Prizes awarded at a picnic and rally fol-
lowing the contest, included cash awards and groups of pine seedlings. The cash prizes were donated by the Jeffreys-:-,kFlrath Manufacturing Company of Macon and
Hodges Lumber Gbmpany of Milledgeville. Macon Kraft Company will supply the seedlings for delivery during the planting season.

Ranger Tom Boston, Fartow County, thanks the volunteers who have helped his unit recently in suppres<sing fires. Poston says, "Volunteer help arrived at both fires we had last week, and we were able to put out the fires without much damage. It is very encouraging to know that these people were ready and willing to help fight these fires, even though the fires occurred on Sunday and during the hottest weather."
Rangers of the Eighth District ~re working together ~o build an exhibit which may be moved from county to county during the fall fair season. They point out such a cooperative effort should result in a better and more effective exhibit.

In recent personnel changes a-
IJDng Gbunty Rangers J. C. Powen re-
placed H. D. White in Terrell Cbunty and Owen Riley became Ranger in Screven County, succeeding Claud Frown, who is assistant district
forester at Gainesville. John R. Hamilton has just taken charge of McDuffie County's new forest pro-
tection unit.

The publisher of the Butler Herald gave the Taylor County Forest ,
Protection Unit quite a bit of pro- 1 motion in a speCial edition issued during Soil Conservation Week. The newspaper contained numerous adver tisements promoting forestry, fire
protection, and reforestation.

Howell Foster, Lamar County Ranger, exhibited his vehicles and fire-fighting equipment at therecent county fair. Many hundreds of
Lamar residents were told about the organization and operation of their forest protection unit and saw demonstrations of how mobile equipment is used to fight forest fires.

LaVerne Phillips, a forestry graduate from the Uni ve rs i ty of Georgia who is now a Veterans Class instructor at Soperton, is helping Ranger Parry Sweat promote forestr}
in Treutlen County.

Ranger W. H. Parker, president of the Long Gbunty Farm Bureau, has endorsed the active soil conservation program in his county and stressed the importance of forest protection and the perpetuation of woodlands as a large factor in soil conservation.

Fudget limitations don't worry
Ranger Frank King, Lowndes County, too much. Finding new equipment could not be purchased at this time, Ranger King and his assistants
recently have reconditioned old
equipment at an estimated savin& of $1,200.

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Pulpwood Dealer Urges

More Tree Planting

Believing that pulpwood dealers should plant trees as well as cut them, Jimmy Lawton, of Soperton, wood shipper to Union Bag and Paper Gorp., has some accurate data on the 120,000 seedlings he planted last season.
Mr. Lawton is an outstanding exponent of practicing good forestry on his lands as well as on other tracts being cut for pulpwood. His figures and statements on his reforestration project last season were contained in a letter to P. E. Allen, of the Union Fag Woodlands Division, which was published in an issue of the company's magazine, The Digester. 1-le said, in part:

"I know you will be interested

in some cost records and other data

on this planting! The land I plant-

ed consisted entirely of abandoned,

sandy, old fields. There was a

pretty good slope to the ground, so

instead of trying to run the lines

arrow straight I had my man plant

on the contour by using the old

terraces as base lines. This will

not give a pretty plan~ing fifteen

years hence, but I got the trees in

the ground and that was my chief

concern.



"As recommended by Auburn I planted them in six-foot rows six feet in the row. This gave me 1210 trees to the acre. My plans, depending of course on future growth rates, are to take out every other row fifteen years from now and then possible half of the remainder after taking out every other row. This will leave me with ap-
proximately 300 trees to the acre with a 12 x 12 spacing.
"To plant 120,000 seedlings on approximately 100 acres took 14 working days for two men, or an average of 8571 trees per day. I paid my tractor driver $5.00 a day and the other man $4.00 per day. Total labor costs were $126.00,

tractor rental was $30.00--the weekly charges the Fag Company debits my account--and gasoline and oil came to $35.00. This made a total cost of $191.00 exclusive of the cost of the seedlings. Freaking down further it cost $1.59 per thousand to plant the seedlings and adding $2.60 per thousand for the seedlings delivered here, the cost comes to $4.19 per thousand in the ground.
"Depending on the spacing, you can easily figure the per acre cost of planting.
"In view of this I would like to raise this point. Why don't more pulpwood dealers plant pine trees? We can preach conservation, selective cutting and tree planting all we wish, but unless we do it ourselves and let the ~ublic know that we are sold on the tdea from an investment standpoint, our sermons will have a hollow ring.
I think that if eve ry dealer spent a part of his time planting instead of cutting it would work wonders."
Smokey Says:
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Hart and Nurserymen

Attend Pensacola Meeting

On September 1~, the management chiefs and nurstr}rren held separate meetings for discussion of problems a~d techniques of nursery operat~on. The following day the combined group visited the nursery at Munson, Florida, and held an inspectio~ and joint meeting there. The en h re group visited the nu r~ ery of the St. Regis Paper Company near Pensacola Septemcer 17.
"JOE BEAVER"

L. C. Hart, Jr., Assistant Di- 1 rector in Olarge of Managerr.ent, ~. E. Murphy, Superintendent, Herty Nursery, Puster Harris, Superintendent, Flowery Franch '\'ursery, and Jim Hill, Nurseryman, Herty Nursery, attended a meeting of W.anagement Chiefs and Nurserymen from the southern' states at Pens&cola, Fla., September 15-17.
Groups fr~m Texas, Mississippj, North CarolJna , South Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida.,. Louisiana, and Tennessee were present.

"I simply changed my mind."

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Two Georgians have been elected to top offices in the Southern Plywood Manufacturers Association.
Elected were D. E. Nichols, of Valdosta, president, and E. A. Piedermann, of Dublin, vive-president. Mr. Nichols is president of Valdosta Plywoods, Inc., and Vr. Fiedermann is president of Georgia Plywood Corp. :he election of officers was part of the association's annual summer meeting, held in Atlanta August 8.
The group re-named C. W. ~iet terich, of Atlanta, to thll' position of managing director.

Comic Book

A PINE TREE
Clean-cut and tall Against the sky's warm blue, The softer blue of hills, and all The mingled green and brown and red Of trees and roofs and spiresA pine tree lifts its head.
Often it makes A cool shadow for the town ; Often when sudden tempest shakes The trees and all the earth around, It shelters every nest it holds Where birds have refuge found.
And I have seen its form By vivid lightning lit; The one sure spire in all the storm, It seemed to point through rugged bars Of midnight cloud, to where Serenely shone God's stars.
Always the tree Has been the landmark thereOld friend, just as it seems to me Against the changing gray and blue Of years you stand unchangedStaunch, sheltering, and true.
-By Alice E. Allen

On Forestry
Is Published
'Pow 1\ioney (;rows On Trees' is the title of a new comic book just published by the International Paper Company. The book is presented in multi-color and is designed as a teaching aid, with a view to helping the school teacher present a worthwhile educational tooic in an interesting manner. The Looklet is prepared for use by 6th, 7th and Rth grade students and vocational agricultural stl'dents, and has been distributed to these g roups.
The new comic cooklet presents a nu~ter of the important fundamental concepts in regard to the protection and conservation of the southern pine forests. The story shows how large a resource our forests Rctually comprise. Tree farming is estallished as a profitatl e entPrprise by small lando.,..ners, who 11ctually produce the bulk of the timber for the south's wood-usin!!' industries.
The past waste and lack of development of the forests is shown, while the school-grade reader is a 1so shov.n that with proper planning and care our pinelands can be fully developed and can produce a valualcle cash crop.

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