Georgia forestry, Vol. 2, no. 11 (Nov. 1949)

ANOTHER 30 MilliON ACRES
WILL BURN THIS YEAR -
PREVENT WOODS FIRES!

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Georgia forestry

Combat
Woods

When The .Forests Burn

(From the Waycross Journal-Herald)
Woods fires cost landowners in Georgia millions of dollars annually. Through education and agitation Georgia has become more keenly aware of this drainage of wealth and potential wealth through careless forest fires during thepast quarter of a century and are taking more stringent means to protect herself against these losses.
From time immemorial farmers burned off their woods to provide cattle ranges in the spring. They stated that their fathers and grandfathers did it and they saw no reason why they should not do likewise.
The information gained in C. C. C. camps gave our young farm-~oys an insight into the value of f1re protection. When they returned home many of them induced their fathers to protect their own lands, and gradually the advantages and benefits of fire protection have become more generally kno'\Wl.
Then too, the demand for pulpwood has made its contribution to the movement.
It is a happy thought that our people are being educated to the idea that our young trees ar~ worth money and that in the future 1nstead of being sacrificed to create woods range's for a few scra'Mly cattle our young trees will furnish the .raw material for the numerous pulpm1lls dotting the coast of C.eorgia and nearby states.

One match, one smouldering cig arette butt, one spark from a camp fire, can be the cause of the destruction of thousands of acres.of timber that it took Nature centunes to create.
This year, the country has witnessed anumber of very serious forest fires. The hazard does not end with the summer months. There has been unusually dry weather in various sections of the country. Trees and woodlands will be ripe for destruction by fire for some time to come.
There seems to be a rather widespread idea that most forest fires are started by natural causes beyond the ability of man to prevent or control. That is not true. 'Some fires, of course, are set by lightning, but author.i ties are al!ireed that nine outoften aredue ent1rely to human carelessness with matches, cigarettes or camp fires. ~a~ly they cwse direct losses runrung lnto many millions of dollars a~d equally serious indirect lo.sses. 1n the destruction of our dw1ndl1ng forest reserves .... '
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Georgia Forestry

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,l'o ve11 ber, 191J9

No. 11

A monthly bulletin putlished by the Georgia Forestry Commission, 4J~ State Capitol, Atlanta. Fntered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta~ Ga., under the act of August 24, 1~12. Member, Ceorgia Press Association.

Nove111ber, 191J9
GBI Aids Enforcement
Of Forest Fire Laws

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The Georgia Pureau of Investiga tion has begun action to help halt unlawful v.oods burning in the state. Preparations were recently completed for coordinated action between the Georgia Forestry Cbmmission and the GFI in enforcing the state's forest fire laws. This law enforcement assistance wasmade available through Ool. George W. Wilson, Director of the Department of Public Safety. These cooperative efforts will be iqcreased as the current fire season progresses.
The GPI investigators, working under the direction of. Captain Delmar Jones, will carry out investigations when specifically requested by the Fo re st r y C~isston .

Stat e laws permit landowners to burn their own lands if they desi r e, rut itisunlawful for such fires to damage forestproperties of others, due to carelessness or neglect.
More forest fireswere attriooted to carelessness and incendiarism than any other causes "last year and the increased law enforcement is expected to greatly reduce the number of unlawful woods fires.
The Forestry Cbnmissions law enforcement personnel, Chief Fire Warden E. H; Terry, Gainesville, and Forest Fi reWarden Frank Osborne, Waycross, will continue in their present capacities and will do investigative work and handl e prosecutions as in the past.

--------- Af GEORGIA IJ-H CONGRESS. Pic turedarepar ti cipants i n a forestry demonstra-
tion during the IJ-H Congress in October, in AtLan ta. Left to right: Jim Spiers, CentraL of Georgia RaiLroad; contest winner Jeannette HoLcomb, Greene County; 0. K. BattLe, District forester; B. F'. Grant, University of Georgia, and second-PLace bli.nner Hortense Bush, Baker County

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Georgia Fores try

Georgian Pioneers

In Forest Farming

Atkinson COunty is the site of one of the oldest cooperative forest fanningprojectsin theUnited States.
Mr. E.C. Fancher started and has developed the project on his farm five miles northwest of Pearson. Today the project is a prime example of the substantial, continuing income ,that can be derived from protected, well-managed woodlands with integrated production of forest products and high utilization.
Today Fancher's principal income is derived from forest products, and during the past nine years he has realized a very substantial income with naval stores providing most of the income. His forest lands are just now approaching maximum production and during the next ten years his income will be greatly increased.
~~r. Fancher retired from railroading in 1934 and settled on his 244-acre tract with a view to obtaining his living primarily from fanning and secondarily from turpentining and the sale of wood products.
In 1940 Fancher became the first cooperator in the Atkinson County Forest Fanning Project and today his income is derived primarily from forest product . Fancher's fann was the first in the south tohave a complete plan written under the Norrislhxey Act.
Fancher and the Project Forester, E. N. Cooper, studied the entire farm area and set up a management plan for the area. In 1941 the two organized the Atkinson Cbunty Forest Farming Cooperative in which members wishing to sell forest products through the Coop were subject to an inspection.
Fancher's fann includes R2 acres of swampland, 128 acres of upland woods and 34 acres of croplands.

For purposes of management, Fancher divided his woodlands into several blocks.
Ch one block all "Black Pines"' (pan-turpentining species) were re- , moved in 1934. Day laborers cut . and stacked the wood at 75 per cord. Ninety-five cords of the' stacked wood were sold to a turpentine still for $2.50 per cord. Openings larger than 1/4-acre were planted with Slash pine.
On the second block, which has pines the same age as those in the first block, three successive thinnings have failed to keep the stand open enough for best growth andl quality production.
~. third block consists of a1 areal wh1Ch was cleared of scrub oaks in 1940-41 and planted with slash pines. On this tract a light improvement thinning was made early 1n 194R.
On a fourth block "Illack Pines", and scrub oaks are being removed to favor slash and lon~leaf pines. Younger stands are th1nned to meet , the needs for home use products such as peanut hay-stack poles. \~ost worked-out turpentine trees were cut and sold as cross ties, l lumber and pulpwood. A few were left as seed trees.
Fancher has even his swamp woodlands under management. Inferior hardwoods are cut for sale and home use with yellow poplar, slash and loblolly being favored in the cuttings.
Georgia's forests are producin1 a~ less than one-half their produc t1ve c~~city. The principal reaso for th1s 1suncontrolled forest fire .

Noue111ber, 191J9

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Turpentine

Featured

Here Smokey, the Fire-Preventing Fear, meets his counterpart in the flesh! Pointing to the familiar poster is Dougherty County's fire ereventer, Ranger Turner Earber, Jr. Snokey Eearhimself looks surprised and doesn't seem to believe his eyes.
Personnel !Appointments

Gum turpenttne was one of the top attractions among exhibits at the recent American Legion COnvention in Philadelphia.
The combination exhibit and parade float was a compl~te 40 ~ A with whistle sirene, and bell. The engine, which represented the Valdosta Post of the Legion, carried large signs boosting gum turpentine for a variety of uses.
The float carried 10 legionnaires and a load of AT-FA sample !)ottles of CUm Turpentine. The samples were handed out enroute to Philadelphia and durin~ the convention, along with descriptive literature.
The float participated in the gigantic convention parade and was viewed by thousands wherever exhibited.

Ed Friend has joined the Commission as Assistant Olief, Information and E'dlcation. . ~,!r. Friend's previous experience Includes a year's service with the S~ate Game COmmission as Education Dtre.ctor. 1\fr. Friend is married and ls the father of four children.
M. Wallace Far r has been named Forest Fanger for Johnson County. Farr succeeds Wade McAfee.
Ranger Farr received a degree from th~ University of Georgia School of Forestry in 1949. He serv~d an apprenticeship in the machinlst trade before entering the ~avy in \\<hich he served aboard an L. S. T. in the Pacific theater.
. . \'ack Neal, of Warm Springs, has J~tned the C.eorgia Forestry ComndsSlon as nurseryman at the Davisboc: Nursery.

Directors of the Georgia Forestry Association met in Atlanta October 14 to plan acceleration of the Keep C.eorgia Green campaign and discuss expansion of forest fire protection in the state.
The association's president, Kirk Sutl ive, Savannah, presided at the one-day session. Other Directors in attendance included Wallace Adams, Glen\\Ood; M.H . Clark, Albany; Pugh W.Dobbs, Atlanta; W.E. Dunham, Savannah; Albert Ernest, Savannah; James Fowler, Soperton; ~. R. Harding, :,aeon; E. T. Hudson, Ellijay; ~arley Langdale, Jr., Valdosta; W. M. Ottmeier, Fargo; ~.J. Wise, Savannah, and Fobert P . Rash, Hav.kinsvi 11 e.

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Geor{!ia ?orestry

Rate Changes, New Practices

In 1960 Naval Stores Progr;:~.m

The 1950 Naval Stores Cbnservation Program, as recently announced by the U. S. L~partment of Agriculture, incorporates a few changes in rates and adds two new practices.
New practices instituted include restricted cupping with a premium of 3-~ per face, and selective re-cupping with a premium of 8 per face. These two new practices represent recommendations made by the ATFA at the August meeting in Valdosta.
Improvement ;ate provisions of the 1950 program include payments as follows:
1. Two cents for each properly installed first year faceontrees not less than 9 inches in diameter.
2. TL ree and one-h~l f cents for each properly installed first year face on trees not less than 10 inches in diameter.

3. Six cents for each first year face properly installed under selective cupping practice.
4. For continued working of each 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year face, ~ per face.
5. For continued proper working of each 2nd, 3rd, 4th .and 5th year face which was installed under selertive cupping practice, 2-~ per face.
6. From six to nine cents for each face accepted for pilot plant tests for controlled experiments in new methods and equipment for gum production.
Participation in the program carries the continued requirement that cooperato~s follo~ approved practices .relat1ve t.o hre protection and hmber cutt1ng.

New Publications Give Forest Ownere

Management, Marketing Aid

A new six-page lealet entitleu "Timber Crops for Southern Farmers", has been released by the U. S. Forest Service. The leaflet, prepared by the Southern Forest Experiment Station, shows the farmer that careful farm forest management pays yearly dividends. The pamphlet re-
lates the results of experiments made over a ten-year period on a
southern farm forest. Attractive dividends on this experimental farm forest, where timber is managed as any other crop, were obtained by careful marking prior to cutting

with a view to obtaining the bes markets for the various fores ' products.
"Markets for ForE!St Products i Southeast Georgia", the secon in a series of booklets designed t aid Georgia forest ov.ners inmarket ing forest products, has just bee published by the Southeastern Fores Experiment Station, U. S. Fores Service. The booklet is avai labl through the Experiment Station an provides valuable tips on the pro fitable sale of sawlogs, venee: bolts, crossties, pulpwood, fenc posts and other forest products.

November, 191J9

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Planter For Mitchell County

The record crop of approximately

40 million forest tree seedlin~s

produced this year at the Georg1a

Forestry Commission nurseries will

probably establish a new, all-time

high for seedling output in State

nurseries in a single vear in thP

south.



Thi~ year's produ~tion represents

fol!r hm_es thequanhty of seedlings

sh1pJ?ed m 1947. The figures reflect

the 1ncreased production attained

since that time through the develop-

ment of the Davisboro nursery and

expansion of production at the Herty

and Flowery Branch nurseries.

L. C. Rart, Jr., Assistant Director of the Conrnission, who is in charge of the nursery program, has announced that all three of the Forestry Commission's nurseries have begun lifting and shipping seedlings

to landowners over the StatP.

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QeDMfiaH- 'kJi#U
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Dr. \ '. D. Mobley, Georgia Direc, tor of Vocational Education was
signally honored by the American Forestry Association during the annual meeting in October.
Dr. Mobley received the association's annual conservation award. He.y ns presented a plaque inscribed with a citation for outstanding service in the conservation of the nation's forests, soil and water resources.
Mr. ~:fobley has been a leader in vocational agriculture since 1924. Pe organized the Future Farmers of America in Georgia in 1928, and has directed the state's vocational education since l93n.

The Camilla Garden Club has recently purchased apine tree planter with contributions from various wood-using industries located in Camilla, in an effort to promote conservation andproper use of land. The Mitchell County tree planter will be used to reforest areas in need of restocking with pine seedlings.
Landowners may rent the tree planter for a rate that is based on a sliding Scale, which will provide upkeep pn the machine. Five Dollars per day will be the minimum charge plus one dollar per thousand seedlings for each thousand planted over five thousand.
The machine i s capable of planting 10,000 or more seedlings per day. Two men and a tractor are required to operate it.
H. P. Allen, District Forester, Georgia Forestry Conrnission will be in char~e of the planter .
Rules established for use of the planter are as follows:
1. The planter must be used only to plant trees.
2 . The County Forest Ranger will schedule time for use of the machine.
3. Landowners will be instructed in use of the planter by the Mitchell County Fanger or District Office personnel.
4. Payment must be made when the machine is delivered to the user. An extra charge of five dollars per day will be made if planting is not completed on schedule .
5. Care must be used in operating the machine and repairs are to be made by the forest ranger.
6 . Complete accounting records will be kept on the number of trees planted, money received from theplanter , and expenditures on the machine .

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Geor gia forest r y

Miles Koger, Decatur Cbunty Ranger, has returned to duty following hOspitalization for injuries recei ved When his automobile was struck by a truck in July. Koger suffered a shattered elbow joint. We all join in welcoming Koger back to duty.
Floyd Wi 11 i runs, Haber sham County Panger, is really putting forest fire prevention before the people of his county through his educational program.
During September and October, Williams made 17 talks to a combined audi ence of more than 2 , 500 ~ showed 21 films , distributed almost fi,OOO pieces of literature, had 18 news articles published, made 279 personal contacts, wrote 17 informational letters, and maintained an exhibit at the Northeast Georgia fair .
T. F. Bankinson, Liberty Cbunty Forest Ranger, has begun a series of forestry educational quiz programs in the schools of his county. The first quiz sessionwasconducted in a high schoolwithstudents serving as both contestants and audience. Each contestant would in turn draw his question from an assortment of forestry questions and upon hearing It read by the County Ranger would give an answer . Prizes were awarded the winning contestants.

E. ' ,1 Pilcher, Ranger, Schley County, is gaining the wholehearted support of the people in his county through the work of his unit. A landowner in Schley Cbunty writes in Fanger Pilcher's colunn, "I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Ranger Pilcher and others who so promptly brought the recent fire on Vrs . Futh Rainey's place under control.
"Pad it not been for the rores.t Protection Un i t in Schley County and the volunteers who assisted, I would have no-doubt lost 30 acres of com by this fire.
Schley Cbunty Forest Protection Unit has proved its value to me. It will unquestionably prove to be of great value to the v._hol~-. county in preventing loss by ftre.
~nger Robert L . Cox, Calhoun County, urged the people of his county to observe Fire Prevention Week 52 times a year. Cox says, 'Here in Calhoun County we want to make every week Fire Prevention Week. There is a great need in our. being more conscious of the fact that wild fire in our forests causes thousands of dollars of damage each year...... The fire loss can only be held down by people being careful, doubly careful, wi th fire in the woods.
J . C. Pace, Ranger, Dade County, says in his Thought for the Week, 'Remember, the best way to fight forest fire is to fight it before it starts. Apply every rule of precaution when handling fire--eve to the tiniest spark.'

November, 191J9
Smokey Says:

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Remember folks-wild woods fire respect no fence or property line

Governor Herman Talmadge has announced three new appointments to the Herty Foundation, Savannah, the pulp and paper research agency.
Wallace Adams, Glenwood, was naned to succeed George Fazemore of Waycross; Harley Langdale, Jr., Valdosta, was nominated to r~lace Janes Fowler of Soperton, and st~elby Myrick, Jr., savannah was appointed to replace Hadley A. Prov.n of Prunswick.
The remaining members include Charles A. Sanford of Savannah and D. B. Turner of Statesboro .

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Pictured is the new headquarters of the Cobb County forest Pr~tection Unit at Marietta. Ran~er Norman A. Medford has just moved his unit in to the ne11J buUdinl! which Pro vi des office space and adequate ~arage space for fire fighting vehicLes.

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Georgia forestry

Forestry Session

Forestry and the naval stores

program filled one session of the

11th snnual meeting of the Georgia

Farm Pureau Federation held in At-

lanta, November 7-9. ]. L. Cillis,Jr.

Director of the American Turpentine

Farmers' Association, presided over

the session.



Congressman Don Wheeler spoke on ' 'The Need For A Coordinated Fo res try Program .

"JOE BEAVER"

'The Story of Forests', an excellently-illustrated picture book~et has just been published by American Forest Products Industries, Inc. The book shows pictorially 'hhat our forests mean toevery segment of the population and demonstrates the necessity of protecting our forest~ from fire. 'The Story of Forests' is especially intended for use in public schools in the lower grades, and is keyed for use with a filmstrip which is available to teachers.
By Ed Nofziger

Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
"A modern good Samaritan--stopped his car to put out a 'cigarette' fire. 11

Noveber, 19119

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FPRS Organizes

Georgia's f rests are contributing to the outstanding successes of the-Scott Paper Company, the country's bi~gest producer of toilet and facial tissues, paper towels and wax ~aper; Thousands of cords of the State's pulpwood is manufactured into high quality paper products sold across the nation and around the \\Or ld.
This Georgia pulpwood is supplied by the Prunswick Pulp and Paper Cpmpany, which is owned jointly by the Scott Paper Company and the Mead Paper Company.
The Scott Paper Company has re~ntly been cited for its busine~s record reaching a 20-year per1od and for its sustained production of quality products at low prices. During the past 20 year~ the co~any has increased sales almost 10 t1mes.
SEEDLINGS. o
(Continued from Page 61 Adverse weather conditions during recent weeks have produced evidence of serious disease and insect attack, resulting in losses in the seedling crop, as in other agricultural crops in the State. The extent of seedling losses by disease and insects cannot be accurately detennined until the shipping season progresses further, but estimates of the loss have run as high as 15 million seedlings.
EDITORIAL.
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The Florida-Georgia-Alabama Section, Forest Products Research Society, held an organizational meeting in Valdosta on f..'ovember 10 and 11. 'lr. Bruce E. Anderson, VicePresident, the Gavan Company, Atlanta, is a trustee in the sectional organization.
FOREST FIRES
A spark, a wisp, a flicker, A flame, a torch, a pyre; A smudge, a smoke, a curtain, Reflects the glow of fire. The flames snap through the bushes
and sizzle up a tree; Explode in crackling tinder That kindles lustily . A forest Fire destroys things Inanimate or breathing; The ghastly waste recor~ed in dying, embers wreath1.ng.
Hrs. Geneva Davies

The human factor, in fact, is responsible for almost all fires, v.hether they take place in a forest,
in a home, or in a factory. Carelessness, ignorance, il:tdi f f e renee to rudimentary precaut1ons--these are fire's friends. When we replace them with care and watchfulness, fire will be beaten.

Georgia Forestry
NOVEMBER 1949

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Ga.