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Georgia fores try

EDITOR ?RUSES 'LOWNDES PROTECTION UNIT

WATCH OUT FOR FIRES

( from the Lowndes County News}
The drought with which this section has suffered for the past few weeks is becoming acute. Wells are running dry, livestock are experiencing difficulty in finding water~ng places and many farmers are be1ng forced to haul water.
In years gone by this section would have suffered heavy loss from disasgrous forest fires, yet despite the tenderbox condition of the woods there have been few fires and very little damage has resulted.
We credit the efficiency of the county forest firepatrol with holding down losses in fires but we are also sure the fact the 'No Fence' law is now in effect in Lowndes County is also responsible for fewer fires being started. With no cattle running loose there is no point in setting the woods afire so that cattle can graze on new growth grass.
However constant vigilance on the part or'the public is imperative if we are to continue to profit from a low fire record. All thatisneeded to startabig forest fire is one carelessly thrown lighted match.

From Union Recorder, MiLLedgeviLLe
For the past several weeks the weather has been dry and the absence o.f rain has caused the grass md woods to become brittle and easy to catch fire. Now is the time to be especially careful and watch out about throwing lighted cigarettes from cars or dropping them in the woods while hunting.
F1 res are man made and they can
be prevented . Lets 1(eep Georgia Green and not burn these dollars that are growing with the blessings of God's sun and rain to enrich us. It is so easy to be careless.
Smokey happ ened by so we prevai Le
u pon him to ex te nd to one an d aLL ot
most sincere tvis hes for a VERY HERJi YULETIDE AND KYERY SUCCESS AKD HAPPIJW IK 'fHE KEW YEAR.
By Preventing f o res t ji res, we CG a LL return Smokey 's good wishes and mal Christm as ~nd t he comi ng year happy jc him, too.

Georgia Forestry
VoLum e 2 December, 1949 No. 12
A monthly bulletin putlished by the Georgia Forestry Commission, 43~ State Capitol, Atlanta. Fntered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta~ Ga., under the act of August 24, 1~12. Member, C:eorgia, Press Association.

December, 191J9

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New Tree Farmers Honored

Two more north Georgia forest O'llllers became Tree Farmers on November 22 when they were honored at a demonstration held near Demorest under the auspices of the Habersham County Forest Protection Unit. The demonstration was planned and directed by Floyd Williams, Habersham County Forest Ranger.
~ore than 200 landowners, vocational a~ricul ture students, foresters, agriculturalists and industry representatives attended the demonstration which took place on Ray Young's farm, three miles west of Clarkesville. The afternoon's festivities were highlighted by an address by Mr. Frank C. Gross, member of the Georgia House of Representatives and a charrpion of forest protection and development.
Verdell Anderson, Demorest, received a Tree Farm Certificate on his 357 acres of woodland. The Mace-

doni a Cooperative Communi ty, l<~u te 3, Clarkesville, also joined the Georgia Tree Farms System, with . r. Wilmer Ptandt receiving the award on behalt of the cooperative. L. C. Hart, Jr., Assistant Director of the Georgi a Forestry Conmi ssion made the awards.
Felling, bucking and trimming of trees were demonstrated by W. E. Roberts, Jr., using the bow saw and John Adderton with the power 'saw. Robert ONens, SCS Work Unit Conservationist, demonstrated treatment of fence posts with pentachlorophenol. Mechanical planting of pine seedlings by the Webster Transplanter was shown by Herschel Webster, Cornelia, inventor and producer of the planter.
Both recipients of the Tree Farm Awards were cited for 'following
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N/t,'IIEST TREE fARHS CERTifiED. WiLmer Brandt, center, receives a Tree fan. certificate for theHacedonia Cooperative Co-unity. Yerdell Anderson, right, also named
a Tree farmer, displays the attractive green-and-llili te signs llilich mark certified Tree farms. L. C. Hart, Jr., Georgia forestry C0111111ission, left, makes the alLflrds.

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Georgia fore s try

Parm Bureau Favors Increased

Fire Control, Education, Management

The For e stry Commi ttee of the Georgi a F a rm Pureau Federation meet i ng during the November sessio~ of the Bureau in Atlanta, adopted resol uti ons calling for greatly increased State appropriations for forest fire protection , public education, reforestation and nurseries, and forest management services. J. L. Gillis, Jr., is chairman of the Forestry Committee.
The committee went on record as stou tly supporting the allotment of addi tional funds to the Georgia Forest ry Commission in the amount neces s ary to allow counties to participate in the fire protection program by providing only 20 percent of the bud get ~ total . This would reduce the county ' s contribution from the present 33-1/ 3 percent, and make possible participation on the part of some counties which at present cannot afford fire protection~
The committee recommended that sufficient funds by provided to enlarge the educational program 'to the extent that at least one educational man be placed in each Congressional District 1n the State and that the necessary supplies and

equipment be p rovi ded for this educational p ro gram' .
The text of other significant resolutions adopted was as follows:
The group advocated that a technical forester trained in marketing be placed in each district 'to assist the farmers with cruising timber selecting timber to be cut , and t~ encourage the farmers to use proper cutting practices ' . Expansion of the nursery program was supported, the resolution calling for 'sufficient funds to grow enough seedlings each year tomeet the demand by the public...... '
'IV That the Georgia Farm Fureau go on record as being opposed to government regulations on State and private-owned forest lands. V That an effort be made by the Georgia Farm Pureau to secure longterm loans for the purpose of growing timber. VI That the present five mill ad valorem tax on forest lands be dispensed with, so as to- induce farmers to grow more timber. '

Bruce Anderson , vice -president of the Don Cavan Company, Atlanta , has been named chairman of the Florida, Georgia-Alabama Section of the Forest Products Research Society. Anderson was elected at the annual meeting of the group, November 10 and 11 in Valdosta.
J. A. Vaughan, research engineer, Southern Wood Preserving Company, Atlanta, was elected secretary of the sectional organization.
Keynote speaker for the meeting was Carl A. Rishell, Director of
Research, National Lumber anufacturers Association. E. C. Locke, national president of the Society, also addressed the gathering.

December, 191J9

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M. E. Murphy, Superintendent of the Berty Nursery at Albany, surveys his croP
of twenty four million seedlings ashe directs the beginning of lifting operations. With every Planted bed up to maximum production, Murphy, td!.ohas been growing pine seedlings for 16 years, says he believes he no~J has the "perfect croP I've been trying to raise every year. '

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Planting Pointers

Landowners throughout Georgia are now rece1v1ng seedlings from the State's record crop. Many months of time, endless work and care, and much expense have been involved in the production of each pine seedling. Proper planting is the final step to insure that the seedlings will j thrive, grow, and help to reforest many of the State's :.M million acres I of land \lhich must be planted to become productive.
Here's how to care for planting stock by 'heeling in')and the proper method of hand planting with the dibble.

Dig sloping trench PLace bundles in trenc-h .

spr ead seedlings

Cover roots wi. th soil; 1lXlter .

Dece11ber, 19119

PaRe Six

Push dibble kith heel

Straigh tin to g1'01J,nd

DON1 f curl roots; Plant at sa~~~e leveL.

Two inches to~rd planter straight donn

Close hole atbottom and toP; pulL, push handle.

Repeat process Tamp b;ea; carry seedLings in water ,

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Georgia forestry

Ranger J. C. MeDearis, Gordon
County, cautions his landov.ners that burning woodlots is not the way to rid cotton fields of boll weevil; you may burn timber of much greater value. ~1ore will regained by a thorough clean-up of fields, terraces and fences combined with an early
program of cotton poisoning next spring. 'Don't rid your land of trees in an effort torid your fields of boll weevil,' says 1\'cDearis.

Ranger Randolph Roddenberry, Colquitt County, makes it easy fo1 the people in his county to reviev the fire fighting activities of hi! unit. He ends his colunn by gi vin1' the 'Fire summary to date:
Number fires suppressed. . . . . 8: Acres b.Jrned . . . . . . . . . 27: Acres that could have burned if protection unit had not suppressed fires . . . . . . . . . . . 97~

Fr. nk King, Lov.ndes County Ranger, and members of his unit, have rebuilt their trailer transport so that one man can load and unload the tractor. This innovation frees another man for actual fire fighting immediately after the unit arrives at the scene of the fire.
Zach Seymour, Talbot County, has certainly made a new friend among the landowners of his county, or strengthened an old friendship. One of several fireshisunit has fou~ht recently was inan area covered wtth scrub oak, but adj"acent to a 12-year old slash pine plantation. He reached the scene quickly and managed to confine the fire to the scrub oak
la~d.

IWnger Coleman D. Carr, Thomas County, requests that all farmers! notify his unit 'at least 24 hours ahead of time when they intend to do1 . any controlled burning. In that way we wi 11 know when and ~ere any burn-1 ing is going on, and will be preparj ed to help you in case the fire gets out of control.
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'We urge that all fanners be careful with fire on their lands. Plov at least an eight foot fire break around lands that are to be control burned, and burn only on calm days and in the morning or late evenings Pecause of the particularly dry season and the recent killing frosts,
the danger of forest fires is goin@ to be very high from now on.'

Lamon Williams, Candler County Ranger, is getting a lot of help from landov.ners in fighting fires. He ex-
presses thanks to Mr. Panks and Mr. C. L. 1\Jrner for 'taking proper precautions to see that fires did not get on land belonging to their neigh-
bors', 'to lVr. Lehman Tucker and Lehman 1\Jcker, Jr. for their considerstion in reporting and working to put out fires ' , and 'to the party who extinguished the small fire on Mr. P. L. Roundtree's land'.

Ranger Owen House, ~itchel
County, and his assistants, whilE awaittng completion of fire lookou towers, have teen operating as bes they could by taking up stands or the two highest hills in the county one near Pelham and the other neal
Green~ugh.
Handicapped like this the unit has operated very success fully, putting out nine big forest fires in the county recently, the last fire helping the land owner to save 100,000 trees he put out last year

December , 191/9

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Management Tips

State Foresters of 11 Southern

States and their Fire Cbntrol 01iefs

met in Atlanta Pegional Forest

on er

JN. ovHeemrbbeerrt15Stwoniteh,

U. S. Forest Serv1ce, to consider

the over-all needs for adequate forest fire control in all the Southern States.

Some 60 ' of the 175 million acres

of privately owned woodlands in the

South have no organized fire protec-

tion. Plans are being developed for

extending protection.

The Federal Government, under the

Clarke-McN"ary Law, cooperates financially with the State Forestry organ-

izations in providing funds for man-

power, supervision, lookout towers ,

communications, equipment, etc.

fUnds are allotted pa~tly on the

basis of the cost of doing- a com-

plete job in each State. The Atlanta

meeting was in connection with the

regular five year analysis and revision of' these costs.

Guyton DeLoach, IArector, repre-

sented the Georgia Forestry Commission in the meetings.

For North Georgia
Forest Owners
Informatiof) foul)d in the appendix includes descriptions of important insects and diseases common in the region, and lists of the common or important species of trees, shrubs, and vines, together with the characted sties, requirements and principal uses for the major species.
'Timber Stand Improvement in the Southern Appalachian Region', recently released by the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, brings to north Georgia timberland owners information on the latest stand improvement practices for timber types of this area. Included are characterizations of each type, stocking improvement suggestions, weeding, thinning, pruning and old-growth stand improvements. I4scussions of special protlems for individual types are given and a section is devoted to care of plantations.

The Polk County forest Protection Oni t !alS !J.Jell represented in th.e Cedartou.n
. Fire Prevention Parade! Ranger James J. Carter (right) and Assistant Ranger J.
0. Gurley are pictured beside their "dressed uP' vehicles

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Georgia forestry

Jesup will be the site of a new

plant of the Southern Wood Preserv-

ing Company. president of

thReobcoemrtpaWnyh, ithe,asJra.n~

nounced that surveys are now being

made of the Westberry tract, pre-

paratory to the start of construc-

tion

The construction of this new tim-

ber industry will mean much addi-

tional income to the forest owners ~d citizens ofWayne Countf through t1mber purchases and payro ls.

"JOE BEA VERU

Cite Fire Control
Overall, adequate forest fire control was cited as the prime need of Southern forestry by a panel of leading foresters, educators and industrialists who met November 14 in Atlanta to plan effective development andmore intelligent use of the South's timberlands. Themeeting was under the sponsorship of the Poard of Control for Southern Regional Education. Speakers at the session included Robert D. lhstetter, Executive Secretary, Society of American Foresters and C. F. Korstian, dean of the lllke University School of Forestry, who is chairman of the group.
By Ed Nofziger

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Forest Service, U.s. Department of Agriculture
"Either you or your stand needs thinning-probably both."

December, 191j9

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TREE FARMS
(Continued from Pa~e 2)
approved forestmanagement practices and adequate fire control on their
lands to assure continuous production of commercial timber crops.
Anderson, in his own way of saying it, originally purchased h1s 375-acre tract 'to make -a good li ving and do some fishing'. In 1943 he foresaw the timber depletion that was taking place in his section of the state and acquired his holdings
to 'manage the timber and see for myself just mat can be done in north Georgia'.
In protecting his lands from fire, Anderson serves as his own lookout.
As an added measure of protection, he is now preparing to construct a series of pre- suppression firebreaks which will checkerboard his land and facilitate the job of fire-fighting should fires start in the area and will serve as access roads for harvesting of forest products.
Not only does Anderson work to prevent fire loss on his own land, but as Secretary-Treasurer of the Habersham County Forestry Board he is instrumental in protecting all the woodlands in his county. Anderson also serves as ~inth District Forestry Committeeman of the Georgia Farm Fureau ~ederation.
Since beginning mana&ement of his forest, Anderson has d1rected his cutting practices to removing inferior hardwoods, making release thinnings and improvement cuttings, and building up the stocking of the stands to a satisfactory level.
The Macedonia Cooperative Community, a unique settlement eight miles northease of Clarkesville, is the home of nine families of migrated peoples whose avowed objective in life is happiness and contentment through cooperative living in mich all share and share alike. Their 650-acre Tree Farm is in addition to 150 acres of open land used for row crops and pasture. From these 1ands the commmi ty gains its livelihood.
The Macedonia Tree Farm is operated for the stated purpose of resource development and cooperative living. Pine-hardwood stands dominate the area. Pulpwood and sawtimber are the principal products harvested in addition to the needs of the community for fuelwood and other miscellaneous wood materials.
Fire protection is an all-hands evolution in the Macedonia (bnmunity.

"WHAT DO WE BURN o o o o o o? "
What do we rum men we burn a tree?
We burn the home for you and me,
We burn the carriage house, bam and shed,
The baby'$ cradle, the table, the rocker of ease,
We rurn all these when we burn our trees.
What do we burn men we burn our trees?
The daily comfort which everyone sees,
The wages for man for years to come,
In factories big where busy wheels hum--
For industries many depend on trees--
When our forests burn we burn all these.
What do we burn when we burn our trees?
The homes of birds, the squirrels and bees,
The home of the brook and the cooling spring,
Where violets blossom and bluebirds sing,
The beauties of nature, so fair to please--
We rurn all of these when we burn the trees.
Summer or winter, day or night,
The woods are an ever new delight;
They give us peace, and they-make us strong,
Such wonderful balms to them belong. --Fy R. H. Stoddard
The c~orgia-Pacific Plywood Company has acquired the Savannah plant formerly owned by General Plywood Corporation. The $300,000 hardwood plywood plant occupies a 227-acre site at the Port of Savannah. The plant is modernly equipped with lathes and hot plate presses.

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Georgia Forestry
DECEMBER 1949

Entered as second-<fass matter at t he Post Office, Atlanta, Ga .

Library School of Forestry University of Georgi& Athens, Georgia
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