Georgia forestry, Vol. 10, no. 11 (Nov. 1957)

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Cruising the News

We Prize Our Trees
(From The ADEL NE WS)
Whether you realize it or not, Georgia is blessed with 24,000,000 acres of forestlands. We have begun to realize what such a vast resource means to our State and Counties . We are faced with a stewardship that we must face daily. We must keep improving practices for growing and cutting our trees and remember them in relationship to our wildlife and water to conservation.
Recently we have had a Georgia man receive an award
from the American Forestry for his practical ideas about forestry, pastures, livestock and farming in general. He has been willing to spread this know l edge .to other
people. We have here in South Georgia some prized tree s that
need our special attention and care. We must remember they mean mu~h to our state's economy , for the present
and futur.- .

GEORGIA FORESTRY

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November , 195 7

Published Monthly by the GEORGIA F-ORESTRY COMMISSION
Box 1183

Macon, Georgia

Guyt"on DeLoach, Dir ector

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Members, Board of Commissioners:

C. M. Jordan, Jr. , Chairman

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Sam H . Morgan -------------- --- ------- --- ----------------- _____ ___ Savannah

Oscar S. Garrison ----- ------------------------------------------------ Homer H . 0. Cummings ........... ----------- -------Donalsonville John M. McElrath, ......... ....................... ------. -------------Macon

Georgia Forestry is entered as second class matter at the Post Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia Press Association.
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Trees Can Compensate

EDITOR ------------ - __ __ ------------- ---- Frank Craven STAFF ARTIST ---------------,---- -- -- ------------ Dan Voss ASSOCIATE EDITORS................Bill Kellam, Joe Kovach,

For Row Crop Loss

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John Currie

(From The ATLANTA CONSTITUfiON)

DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

Tree farming looms as one of the best long-range

DISTRICT 1-Route 2,

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505,

bets to offset shrinkage of income from row crops. The Georgia Forestry Commission this year received
requests for 319 million seedlings, a record number

Statesboro DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 26,
Camilla DISTRIOT 111-P. 0 . Box 169,

Milledgeville DISTRICT VII-Route 1,
Rome DISTRICT VIII-P. 0 . Box

which was about 147 million more than the state ' s five

Americus

1160, Waycross

nurseries produced. The new Morgan Nursery, with the largest production capacity in the Southeast, will go into operation next year and help considerably in meet-

DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333,
Newnan DISTRICT V-P. O.. Box 328,
McRae

DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville
DISTRICT X-Route 3, Washington

ing the surging dema nd.

The unprecedented number of orders for seedlings is 5,978 fires in woodlands , ma ny burning over hundreds of further evidence that landowners are awakening to the acres. For the first eight months of 1957, there were



financial opportunities which forests offer.

4,261 fires.

Tree farming is far less expensive than growing of

That's definite progress-and a great saving. If a li~e

row crops. A ready market is assured and Soil Bank ratio can be maintained for the remainder of 1957, it will benefits for converting acreage into trees are more lib- be a splended victory for conservation. Georgia forest-

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eral than for many other phases of agriculture.

lands increase in value with each passing day, and it is

Prospects of row crops recovering in the immediate of utmost importance that this great resource be pro-

future from their present doldrums appear slim. But the tected.

outlook is bright for timber and forestry products. Here

.is a field that is unlikely to become smothered in gov-

ernment restrictions.
Big Gains On Fire Front
(From The ATLANTA JOURNAL)
In all Georgia, none 1s more th~nkful for the recent rains than the forest fire control people in the State Forestry Commission.
One day they had fires by the dozen, some in the vicinit y of Statesboro, a few around Wa ycross and an outbreak in the Rome region.
_Next day, a man could hardly see 50 yards for the
sheets of rain , and presto, there was no forest fire problem anywhere in the state.
Through the first eight months of 1956, the state had

On the Cover
Georgia Forestry Commission Fire Control Personnel did~'t wait for the present fire season to arrive before they prepared for it. Training began last summer with project fire exercises in which every ranger in the state p~rtic!pated. . Fire ~hie Jim T urner then followed up wtth mdoor mstrucuon on weather, safety, combustion a nd law enforcement On the cover Seventh District Forester Julian Reeves and Ninth District Bossman Ollie Burtz conducted a combustion class demonstration at the Milledgeville District Office. They are standing in the middle of a fire map of Greene County. The Compasses denote the location of the county's fire towers.

FORESTRY COMMISSION, U.S. FOREST SERVICE C HIEFS PLA SEEDLING BOMBING Craven, Littlehales, Davis, DeLoach, Craig check Macon dedication sc hedule
Seedling Celebration Set for December

The Georgia Forestry Commission will be honored December 18 by the U.S. Forest Service for leading the nation in the production of forest tree seedlings in
1957. The Commission's five nurseries produced over 170
million seedlings this year-the largest number yet. The program at Macon will begin at 11:00 a.m. at the
Georgia Forestry Center and will include the dedication of the Commission's new seedling nurseries at Reidsville and Mac on and the staging of a fire fighting demonstration, Commission Director Guyton DeLoach said.
Governor Marvin Griffin will deliver the dedicatory address for the Joseph Page and Phillip Morgan Memorial Nurseries. He will plant the billionth seedling at the Center. The seedling will be de livered to him by helicopter.
Willi am S. Swingler of Washington, D.C., assist ant chief of the U.S. Forest Service, will make the seedling production award.

The fire fighting demonstration will be executed using equipment brought to Macon ~ for use at the Macon Forest Fire Research Center. The demonstration will include the dumping of water of a fire by a U.S. Forest Service modified torpedo bomber similar to one the Georgia Forestry Commission will put into operation in January. The plane drops water on the ''hottest'' parts of big fires to slow them.
A U.S. Forest Service helicopter will demonstrate fire hose laying techniques used on the West Coast. Two " smoke hoppers" -specially trained airborne fire fighters, will roll out of the helicopter as it hovers close to
the ground. Another feature will De a demonstration of the effect-
iveness of the new sodium borate fire retardant, which is used in the West and will probably be introduced soon in Georgia.

It's too small, throw it back.

TIMBER-R-R I
WAYCROSS MANAGEMENT TRAINING
Forestry Commission management personnel took to the wilds and woods at Laura Walker State Park recently for a week-long training session.
.Management Chief William .McComb was in charge of the school, which included a day of naval stores study directed by John Cooper, supervisor of the naval stores conservation program.
The foresters spent two days making like Paul Bunyan in the state forest adjoining the park. They studied log rule volume and checked their estimates by felling and sawing the trees themselves .
Sawmill expert Rufus Page got a chance to practice some of his preachings by serving as sawyer. .Management Assistant John Clark assisted. Assistant Chief Thacker flexed his biceps as logging chief. All are expected to recover.
A trip to the U.S. Forest Service experiment station at Lake City, Fla., to see a fire control demonstration concluded the schooL

Let's see, how do you tie a square knot ? Thacker leans on mighty blade a s J acobs t ake s aim.

Tch, tch. I told you to watch that saw...

Cannon draws a bead on dead norrh
First District:
First 1n Radio
Completion of the 300-foot radio antenna at Statesboro will give the First District Office direct communication with Macon and with every county.
Previously, district foresters had often been un able to contact some of the counties by radio. All Macon radio traffic had to be relayed through the Ocmulgee District Office.
The tower was erected by a private contractor, but Communications Chief Henry Cannon and Assistant Hyland Cosey set up and adjusted the antenna. It is locate d a bout three miles, as the pickup flies, from the district office.
The tower could not be erected at the district office beca use the First headquarters is so near the Statesboro Airport. The present site of the tower is well off the aircraft a pproaches.

Carlisle, Cosey adjust the satellire g uard

Harper belongs co do-it-yourself school

wo nd er if I c a n hid e i n here? come here, boy, and he lp this g al !

won 't somebody please help me push this thi ng?
FALL CLEANUP AT FOURTH DISTRICT HQ
if you can 't paint it or bury it...

Dishpan hands and scrub woman's knees are in style at the Fourth District Office at Newnan as the annual "spring" cleaning got off to an early start.
District Forester James Henson is seeing that his staff puts its best broom and mop forward before the oncoming fire season puts them tractor deep in fire lines and backfires. A welcome rain following the close of cone collection activities cleared the way for the "mop -up" project during the lull before the hectic seedling program gets under way.
Besides getting the fire fighting equipment ready, the Henson gang is applying their surplus elbow- grea s e to the office building . They've put spit and polish on everything they can move and are planning to cover up everything else. They soon will panel the office with different kinds of wood.
Investigator W.E. Lee and District Ranger Arth ur Thornton have mashed thumbs and split fingernails to prove they can handle all carpentry chores.
Assistant District Foresters Wayne Manning and Druid Preston are the general flunkies. Assistant District Forester W.D. Millians handles the gardening and groundkeeping chores. He's also substitute stamp licker and mailman.
Radio Technician Billy Chatham has been on the ailing list with the flu, but Henson is letting him share in the operation by giving him some homework while fights fights off the Asiatic virus..
Secretary Karen Brown really doesn't have to work at all. Her inspiration keeps up the morale. But , even at that, she's no white collar worker. Henson often allows her to ctu the grass or do other light work.
Henson? Well, he don't work. He just gives orders.

hide it.

Cleanser Scours
From Florida Forests
Wildfire , the plague of Southern f orests, met its match at a recent chemical retardant demonstration at the Olustee Experiment Forest of the Lake City, Fla., Research . Center of the. U.S. Forest Service.
Sodium calcium borate, a retardant developed by the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Borax and Chemical Co., was sprayed with a special pump on the palmetto and gallberry of the Florida forests and on half a pile of pine slash.
A backfire was set which burned to the treated line and stopped. Then a head fire , which quickly grew hot, burned to the line and halted. The untreated portion of the brush pile was fired next. It burned completely, but the treated brush resisted the flames.
The test was sponsored by the Macon Forest Fire Research Center a nd wa s direc~ed by Project Leader Robert Cooper. Some 125 farm and conservation forest ers from Georgia and Alabama attended the outing .
Other interested spectators included Georgia Forestry Commission Fire Chief James Turner and Assistants Turner Barber and Curtis Barnes. Chief Turner said he felt that the retardant showed promise for use in special fire situations in Georgia and would be tested further. This was the first test of the retardant in the East.

Mere hungr y flames gnaw at slash

Fire couldn't digest treated poug hs

C ooper Watches Distiller Work on Brew

Poof! Poof! And it's moisturized.

Hungry flames found treated palmett o inedible

Fire Control Training Stresses Weather,Safety

U your radio fails, use smoke signals
Georgia Forestry Commission field personnel switched from the woods to the classroom last month for a state-wide series of weather, combustion and l,aw enforcement training sessions.
Teams of district and Forestry Center experts taught classes at each of the 10 district offices on forest fire weather and weather forecasting, law enforcement , combustion principles and safety. Specially-prepared traini ng aids and movies were used to supplement the lec tures.
The classes reviewed the fundamentals of sound fire suppression techniques. Safety was emphasized to prevent the needless loss from dut y of key personnel because of unnecessary accidents. Investigators reviewed

This is a finger masher...
their duties and procedures to Im prove county-district co- operation.
"I feel that the training was very successful," Fire Control Chief J .C. Turner Jr. said. "Our personnel should be be tter prepared than ever to cope with any problems which arise during the coming fire season . "
Instructors in the Northern district s i ncluded District Foresters George Coll ier , Ollie Burtz a nd James Henson; Assistant District Foresters William Sch ultz and James McElhannon and Assist ant Fire Chief Turner Barber.
Southern in s tructors include District Fore s ters Olin Witherington, Frank Eadie, Hugh Allen a nd J ames Reid; Assistant District Foresters John t okes and AI Smith ; Chief Turner and Assistant Fire Chief Curtis Barnes .

Now how does that heat infection work?
There I was, flat on my back at -10, 000 feet whe n .. . hey, Jim, don't drop that thing!

Wath- have horse(?), will travel
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Dawson- another hot meal for the troops

Dawson- beep, beep, beep...
Fire Problem Wrap.up
DAWSON-JONES-WORTH

Jones- what, no sheets or pillowcases?

Dawson- I'm not going to tell you about those mileage tickets again

Wath- Worthiatic flu claims another vic t im

Jones - which way's t he nearest motel?

HONORS AWARDED AT MACON FFA RALLY
FF A Pres. ::.tewart Bloodworth honors Malsberger, DeLoach
Forestry was spotlighted recently in Macon at the annual Future Farmers of America rally.
Bobby Cone, a senior at Soperton High, received the coveted Star Georgia Planter title and Guyton DeLoach, director of the Georgia Forestry Commission, and H.J. Malsberger, head of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Assn., along with some 20 other outstanding citizens were given honorary Georgia Planter degrees.
Bobby's award won him a new tractor presented by area Ford tractor dealers and $100 from the National FFA Foundation.
Applying knowledge gained in vocational agriculture classes, Bobby took over management of a 62-acre woodlot. He has used a mechanical tree planter to set out 19,400 pine seedlings and has practiced hardwood control on 40 acres. He also has cupped 500 trees for gum farming and works 1,500 turpentine faces on halves with his father. This year he sold 25 barrels of crude gum and cut 236 fence posts and seven units of pulpwood. His agriculture teacher is H.H. Glisson.

Georgians from the Applachians of Catoosa to the sandhills of Screven heard , saw and practiced forestry at recent Commission demonstrations.
First District Forester W.C. Harper was a fe atured speaker at a forestry demonstration in Screven County sponsored by landowner John W. Howard and the Screven County and Verdery and Chandler Pulpwood Yards of Sylvania.
Landowners, state and industrial foresters and representatives of other phases of forest industry attended the outing on Boward's property south of Sylvania.
"Georgia. is pining awa y," he said, "and I'm glad of it, We can't compete with other sections in cotton, but we can beat them at pulpwood and saw timber. We must have good forest management to make money, though."
Harper traced the history of the Screven County Forestry Unit and. praised county residents for their fire consciousness. The group praised the role Screven County Ranger Lloyd Bazemore has played in the war on fire .
Ringgold High School students practiced what they'd learned in the classroom at a management demonstration sponsored by Catoosa Ranger James Scott and High School Teacher Ray McClanahan.
Demonstrations Presented
Throughout State

Bobby tries out prize for size

Harper speaks at Screven Demonstration
More than 100 boys and girls swarmed through a woodland lot owned by Mrs. T.D . Bates at Tunnel Hill, Ga., and watched on-the-spot techniques in tree identification, marking and thinning. The youngsters actually cruised the site , each selecting trees he thought should be harvested to improve the stand.
The outdoor class was conducted by Commission employes from the Seventh District Office at Rome and from the Forestry Center at Macon. Assistant District Management Forester Chuck Place explained the fine points of tree identification, Assistant District Forester Armand Cote discussed marking and the Commission's I&E Chief Frank Craven outlined general management prac ti ces .

RANGER ROUNDUP
Davisboco ursery Supt. Frank Pullen and staff built this mtntature nursery which was displayed in the Washington County Courthouse during the Kaoli'n Festival.
GOODBYE , OLD PAL... Wilkes County Ranger T.H. Bullard lost an old friend recently--a fire tower, not District Forester George Collier. The 60-foot Wilkes Fire Tower, which was formerly located south of Washington between the Crawfordville and Union Point Highways, was dismantled after serving since March , 1949. It was rendered surplus by the erection of the fire tower in adjoining Taliaferro County. Fire towers in other adjacent counties also provide visibility into the same area, so Tenth District fire protection will not suffer, District Forester Collier said.
FORESTRY SHORT COURSE AT TIFTON...Second District Forester Hugh P. Allen and Forest Technologist Rufus Page headed a list of instructors who participated in the annual forestry short course held recently at Abraham Baldwin Agriculture College in Tifton. Purpose of the course was to provide information to South Georgia landowners in order to promote better forestry.
BALLS O'FIRE!...Seems like the Russians are loading the heavens with so much junk that almost everybody's got stars in their eyes. Otis Ulm, Worth County towerman is no exception. According to Worth Ranger Lewis Conger, Otis spotted a stranger in the sky while on night duty at Warwick Tower. A quick radio check with Crisp and Dooley County towermen proved it wasn't a flying pink elephant, the ranger said, because they saw it too. Aff agreed on what it wasn't. They said it wasn't a sputnik, a muttnik or a flying sauc~r. It was man-made and was an oval-shaped aircraft that appear-ed to be lighted internally, they declared. After a brief tour over the tri-county area, the stranger whisked off to the north and disappeared. Some speculators ad-

vanced the theory that it might have been a premature visit from Santa Claus, ~ leftover Halloween spook or a good fairy, But, it couldn't have been because nobody believes in them a nym ore . FPRS FALL MEETING...The Florida-Georgia-Alabama Section of the Forest Products Research Society held its fall meeting Dec. 5_r; at Daytona Beach, Fla. GFC -USFS Wood Technologist Rufus Page of Macon, who is chairman of the section, presided. Progress reports on research nad developments in wood utilization in the Southeast were featured. Leading speakers included P.S. Knox Jr. of Thomson, Ga., J.A. Vaughn and R.L. Osborne of Atlanta, Fount Rion of Palatka, Fla., and Harold Colee, executive vice president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
PROF. EASON TEACHES... Evans County Ranger A.D. Eason recently conducted a fire control demonstration for Claxton High School forestry students. The demonstration was held on the home forestry plot of Al Jenkins and was given in conjunction with the FFA school forestry program sponsored by the Dept. of Vocational Agriculture and Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.
Ra..nger Eason plowed pre-suppression firebreaks around the three-acre plot. Union Bag Forester Calvin Cherry and Vo. Ag. Teacher Lenwood McElveen also appeared on the program. SOUTHEASTERN SAF MEETING...The Southeastern Section of the Society of American Foresters will hold its annual meeting Jan. 30-31 in Panama City , Fla., at the Dixie Sherman Hote 1.
Four months? Six, maybe? District Forester Bill Harper, left, crosses his pinkies, hoping that the new Bulloch County headquarters will be finished soon. Bulloch Ranger Paul Moore predicts four months. Assistant District Forester Al Smith says six. Moore and Smith did the ground levelling beneath their brogans.