Georgia forestry, Vol. 10, no. 7 (July 1957)

GEORGIA FORESTRY

Editorial

Summer Tree Cutting

GEORGIA FORESTRY

(From the Atkinson County Citizen) Fears many timber owners have of their forests being attacked by insects if trees are cut during the summer are unsupported by facts, an Agricultural Extension Service forester said this week.
George D. Walker, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, pointed out, however, that there have been some insect attacks following summer cutting operations because of careless woods practices or cutting during a period of drought.
The forester listed three conditions which, if met, should eliminate any fear of summer cutting. They are:
1. There should be a normal amount of rainfall and the trees should not be suffering from a drought or any other weakened conditions such as fire.

Vol. 10

July 1957
Published Monthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION
Box 1183 Macon, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Di1ecto1

No. 7

Members, Board of Commissioners : John M. McElrath, Chairman____________________________Macon
Sam H . Morgan ---------------------- ______ Savannah Oscar S. Garrison --------------------------- Homer C. M. Jordan, Jr. -------------------------------------Alamo H. 0. Cummings ---- ----------------- ------------------ Donalsonville

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.

2. Care must be taken in the woods. No lodged trees should be left. Tops should not be left against standing trees. Severely injured trees, and trees with broken tops, should be removed.
3. If a sawtimber cut is made, it is best to follow up immediately with a pulpwood operation on the tops and larger branches. By removing these larger stems, the insects have little or no chance to build up.
Walker stated that, with the present marketing systems for forest products, sales must continue the year 'round. "If anything affects the orderly marketing of forest products," he said, "the results eventually will be felt by original producer."

EDITOR -------------------------------------------Frank Craven ASSOCIATE EDITORS ._____________ Bill Kellam, Joe Kovach,

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Jeanette Jackson

STAFF ARTIST --------------------------------------------Dan Voss

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Washington

Boys Forestry Camp Seen
As A Worthwhile Project
(From the Waycross journal-Herald)
More than 100 4-H Club boys are at Laura S. Walker State Park learning how to grow better trees.
This is the thirteenth time that the South Georgia Fores try Camp has been held in Ware County and we are told that .the annual project has been highly successful.
4-H Club boys from more than 50 counties in South Georgia earn the right to attend the camp here on the basis of outstanding work they have already done in forestry in their home communities.
Their instructors are the best qualified men in the state in the forestry field. They represent governmental agencies and private forestry interests.
Tree identification, reforestation, thinning pine stands, forest insects and diseases, measuring forest products and harvesting and marketing are among the subjects being studied.

This is one of the most worthwhile projects conducted in our state each year in the field of agriculture. The boys who attend the forestry camps here receive the kind of training that enables them to become leaders of Georgia's growing forestry industry.
This is the kind of far-sighted venture that, like the reforestation program, pays off richly in the days ahead.
This Month's Cover
State forestry employes are getting a new insight into their personalities as com mission sleuths enter the last lap of fingerprinting all commission personnel. District investigators are busy collecting themany whorls, loops and swirls that pound typewriters, grow trees and fight fires in Georgia. The prints will be filed to help eliminate suspects involved in Commission thefts and illegal enteries. They also will help point the finger of suspicion at careless woods burners. The fingerprinting chore is taking less time
than first believed, since all investigators were quick to quality in the print-taking technique. Prints of all field personnel soon will be completed, and the central office employes are preparing to ink their fingers.

In addition to instruction in these and other forestry topics, the boys attending the camp take time out to visit the Okefenokee Swamp Park and to tour the Union Bag Corp. plant in Savannah. Union Bag sponsors the
camp.

PiEYENTFQ/lSTFilS!

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DARBY, DELOACH, HARGREAVES LOOK AHEAD, SEE 55 MILLION MORE' SEEDLINGS IN '58

Commission To Build New Tree Nursery

A new forest tree seedling nursery, designed to have the world's highest production, will be constructed at once by the Georgia Forestry Commission in Houston County not far from Macon, Director Guyton DeLoach announced.
The 140-acre , $416,000 project, located 15 miles south of Macon on U.S. Highway 41, will be planted for the first time next spring, DeLoach said. The nursery will boost Commission seedling production to a projected 250 million annually.
The entire 105-acre plant bed acreage will be planted in March, 1958, Reforestation Chief Sanford Darby said. Thereafter, only half--for an annual output of 55 million seedlings--will be cultivated each year. Darby said that production will exceed even that of the gigantic new P'age Memorial Nursery in Toombs County, which has more total area, but less seed bed acreage than the new nursery.
DeLoach said the nursery site was chosen for its size, topography, soil texture and proximity to the Georgia Forestry Center.
"We plan to use the nursery as part of our research program," DeLoach said. "The fact that it is only 15 miles from the center of Macon will facilitate its use by Forestry Center personnel. Its convenient location will also increase its educational value, for we will be able to take many visitors to the Forestry Center on tours of the nursery. Motorists on busy Highway 41 will also get a first hand picture of its operations.
The nursery is being financed primarily by a $366,000 grant of Soil Bank funds. "The new nursery, like Page Memorial, is being constructed to meet the unparalleled demand caused by the Soil Bank for forest tree seed-

lings," DeLoach said.
The state of Georgia contributed $35,000 towards the construction; the Macon Area Development Corp. , a subsidiary of the Macon Chamber of Commerce, $12 ,500 and Houston County, $2,500.
J .K. Jones , superintendent at Horseshoe Bend Nursery at;. Glenwood, will direct the new nursery. George Sanders,now at Page Nursery , will be the assistant superintendent.
Ralph Donald Jones , a Page re~orestation assi~tant, will be the new Horseshoe supenntendent. He w1ll be assisted by F .M. Durden , now also at Page .
The new nursery will fe a ture an innovation in theseedling handling buildi~gs. The pac;king , _equipment, s.upply and seedling holdwg sheds w1ll ~e mc_orporated mto a single 100 by 160-foot structure wh1ch w1~l ~ave ~nother 1,000 sq.uare feet of office space. The bulldmg wlll cost $75,000.
Brick homes for the superintendent and his assistant will be constructed at the nursery for a cost of $28,000 for the pair.
The nursery will have a $194_,000 irrigation sy~tem which will include over 3,000 spnnkler heads, 25 mlles of various-sized pipe and one large or two small wells producing 1,700 gallons per minute. The land will be levelled and a drainage plan, which will eliminate all low places , will be completed before the irrigation system is laid, Darby said.
The nursery will employ from 15 to 75 local laborers during the grading and packing season. It will have a permanent crew of six.

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BEAUTIES REIGN OVER FORESTRY FLOAT
Two ''Smolceys'' Attend
Putnam Dairy Festival
Smokey the Bear himself and Smokey in costume made their initial appearances last month in the annual Putnam County Dairy Festival at Eatonton.
Thousands of spectators from central Georgia ja!l)med the streets of Eatonton to view the lavish spectacle, which featured beauteous floats and girls galore.
As usual, both Smokeys were great hits with the crowd. The kiddies especially enjoyed the antics of Towerman Gene Griffin, who wore the Smokey costume.
Griffin and several Putnam County beauties decorated the forestry unit float , which was covered wid~ pjne boughs and signs. Putnam County Ranger Jerry Ridley and forestry unit personnel designed and built the float.
One of the brightest ornaments on the float was Miss Betty Massey , who was third in the festival beauty contest. Riding with her were Misses Yvonne Humphreys, Gwen Rogers , Dianne Winslette and Connie Sanders.
Accompanying the high school lovelies were two tiny future beauty queens--Ranger Ridley's daughter, Medina Lynn, and Louann Harper.

Homelite Chain Saw To Sponser
Management Demonstration
Fifty potential foresters from North and Central Geor gia will take to the Richmond County woods August 18 for a week-long forest management demonstration and camp sponsored by Homelite Chain Saw Co. and taught by Georgia Forestry Commission personnel.
Rising high school seniors from 44 counties have been selected to attend the camp by Homelite dealers and Forestry Commission county rangers. They were chosen for their interest in forestry.
Camp Bosses
Tenth District Asst. Forester William Schultz of Washington will serve as camp boss. He will be in charge of first aid and recreation. J. W. Chambers, Richmond County Agent, will serve as assistant camp boss.
Tenth District Asst. Forester John Harrison of Washington and a forest management field asst. from the Commission Headquarters at Macon will teach forest management.
Roy Daniell of Atlanta , Homelite Georgia Representative, will be in charge of the saws and cutting. Richmond County Ranger T .M. Strickland of Augusta is assisting in .camp planning.
Class Periods
The campers will arrive Sunday , August 18. Monday through Friday they will attend morning and afternoon classes in the field and study equipment maintenance. There will be daily athletic periods.
Special entertainment has been planned for each night, including movies , skits and talks. A square dance with Richmond County Home Demonstration Club girls on Friday night will highlight the recreation.
Graduation exercises will be held Saturday morning when awards will be made to the outstanding campers.

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DADE COUNTY FORESTRY CLUB COMMITTEE

DEMONSTRATION CLUB OFFICERS

Dade Citizens Form First Forestry Club
Concerned over the comparative low yield of their forestlands, Dade County citizens recently took matters into their own hands and decided to give their sagging forest economy a shot in the arm.
Calling on the various state and federal forest agencies for guidance, landowners, farmers and businessmen throughout the county met at the Dade County High School and formed the Dade County Forest Demonstration Club--the first organization of its kind in the state.
J .A. Case of Trenton was elected president and Miss Bess Cureton of Rising Fawn was named secretary-treasurer.
According to Dade County Agent L.C. Adams, "The ultimate goal of the club is to obtain, and then keep maximum forest production on the 83,000 acres of woodland owned by more than 600 landowners in Dade County." He said this will be done by encouraging at least 125 farmers to conduct educational forestry demonstrations on their property during the year. "Since our objective hinges strongly on educating and informing the public as to the benefits of sound forest management," he said, "we can best fulfill our goal by showing county landowners how their forests can be improved."
Each of the participating forest agencies agreed to do its share in helping to promote the club' s aims. They all pledged to work with assigned landowners in the county in developing individual management programs.
At the second club meeting, success of the program was virtually assured. Representatives of the forest agencies reported that every landowner contacted has agreed to adopt the recommended management programs.
Partici{>ating agencies are Georgia Agriculture Extension Serv1ce, TVA , Georgia Forestry Commission, two

area pulp mills, consulting foresters , U .S. Forest Service and several Dade County sawmillers.
"We've got the ball rolling now, " Case s aid , "and it will only be a matter of time until Dade County once again will enjoy a sound forest economy."
New Counties Initiate
Forest Fire Protectio,n
Two more counties came under fire protection of the Georgia Forestry Commission at the start of the new fiscal year, July I, Director Guyton DeLoach announced. 147 of Georgia's 159 counties are now under organized fire protection.
Taliaferro County in District 10 will be combined with the present Greene County Unit under Greene Ranger H.E. "Buster" Moore. An additional fire suppression uni~, consisting of a tractor and transport truck, will be stationed in Taliaferro.
The portion of Lanier County in District Eight which is not protected by the Consolidated TPO unit will come under the protection of the Lowndes County unit, E .P. Eubanks, Jr., ranger. A new fire suppression unit has beep purchased for the unit.
Three counties which were under Commission protection have been combined, after the approva l of their forestry boards, with adjoining counties' forestry units . "This will provide increased efficiency and economy of operation," DeLoach said.
In District Three , Dooley County ha s been combined with Crisp County under Crisp Ranger Bobby Christian. In District Four, Spalding County has been joined with Pike County under Pike Ranger John Osbolt.
Another District 10 change combines two counties-Elbert and Madison--under a 1957 gradua te of the University of Georgia School of Forestry. Marvin Burgess of Toccoa will take over the new combined unit , with headquarters at Elberton. Both counties previously had acting rangers.

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"SWING YO PODNER"
COTE WRAPS THE SURPRISE
THE F~HTING FORESTER

A YOUNG "ELVIS"

AN INSTRUMENT AL DUET

BOYS LOOK OVER "MONSTER" WHICH MAKES BIGGER FIRE BREAKS

FFA'ers Play, Study, Win
At Boys Forestry Camp
One hundred South Georgia Future Farmers who may also be future fores ters worked, studied and played for a week in the woods last month at the 1957 SPCA Forestry Camp at Laura Wa lker State Park.
The camp, sponsored by six mills of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Ass n., was conducted by the Georgia Forestry Commission, with Information and Education Chief Frank Craven serving as camp director.
Foresters from both the Commission and private industry taught fire control, law enforcement, forest management, reforestation, harvesting, marketing and mensurato the high school youths.
The boys' exertions did not go unrewarded. Prizes were given to the outstanding :; tudents, camper and athletes. Carroll Phillips of Statenville made the highest score on the forestry exam at the end of the week and received a fishing rod.
Second place and a tackle box went to Billy Ross ot Camilla. Third plac e a nd a hunting knife went to Bobby Cone of Soperton. Fourth place and a flashlight went to Don Morrell of Pelham. A.T. Bragdon of Nashville was named outstanding camper and won a hunting knife.
Although the young sters attended classes Tuesday through Friday mornings and had several afternoon sessions, too, there was plenty of recreation, including sports and special entertainment.
Highlights were a square dance with Home Demonstration Club girls, an afternoon tour of Okefenokee Swamp Park and a humorous illustrated lecture and trumpet recital by U.S. Forest Service Artist Harry Rossoll of Atlanta.

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HANK WILLIAMS TEACHES TREE IDE NTIF IC AT ION

ED KREIS HOLDS UP DISEASED TREE FOR T.B. HANKINSON

"PUT A LITTLE ON THE TREE AND WATCH THEM SQUIRM," SAYS JULIAN REEVES

Vo Ag Teachers Attend

Statewide Forestry Clinics

It's vacation time for Georgia youngsters, but not for high school vocational agriculture teachers. Once again this summer they're attending the Trust Company of Georgia's statewide forestry clinics.

Georgia Forestry Commission, state vo ag department and industry foresters and University faculty members are teaching the four-day clinics at Athens, Carrollton, Vienna, either Screven or Patterson and Ft. Valley.

The Department of Education-sponsored clinicsinclude courses and field demonstrations in fire, insect and undesirable tree control, tree identification, forest economics and management, measuring and marketing.

Forestry Commission personnel turned pedagogue for the clinics include Fire Chief James Turner, Asst. Chief Curtis Barnes, Asst. Management Chief T.B. Hankinson and Seventh District Forester Julian Reeves. Other instructors include Vo Ag Forester Ed Kreis, University faculty member Reid Parker and graduate assistant Erwin Dumbroff.

A LITTLE SQUIRT IS ALL IT TAKES

District Foresters George Collier of Washington and James Henson of Newnan and Asst. District Forester Don ald Stewart of Camilla have or will participate in the fire control field demonstrations along with Rangers Verla Smith of Athens, B.J. Bivins of Carrollton and Boyd Alexander of Newnan.

WATCH OUT FOR BRUSH FIRES

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RANGER VERLA SMITH OPERATES HOSE AS GEORG:

COLLIER GESTICULATES UNDER TOWER

JIM HENSON'S NOT LOOKING FOR LOST TRACTORHE'S READY TO BEGIN FIRE CONTROL TALK

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Oldest Active State Sawmill found On Haynes Creek Bank
A little more than 70 years ago, O.L. Costly's daddy set up a sawmill on the banks of Haynes Creek, seven miles east of Conyers, and "it ain't stopped running yet." The younger Costly, who is only 77 now, operated the water-powered mill until four years ago, when he had to have a diseased left foot amputated.
"I can't get around too good nowadays," Costly said, "but the old mill can buzz along just as good now as it did when I was a boy." He said he recalled when some 4,000 boruod feet a day were cut by the 42-inch circular blade. "It' s a mite
rusty now because it hasn't been used much since I lost my
foot," he said, "but it'll still make toothpicks out of any
, log. "

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OLDEST ACTIVE SAWMILL IN GEORGIA
Believed to be the oldest active sawmill in the state, the parts were manufactured in Atlanta by the DeLoach Mill Manufacturing Co., a firm long since defunct. Costly said he made the 40-mile journey in a wagon with his father to pick up the parts.
The sawmill is housed in a shed adjoining a grist mill which Costly says uses an English mill stone that is more than 100 years old. Both the grist and sawmill formerly were powered by overshot wheels turned by the swift Haynes Creek waters, the white-haired mill avner recollected, but a disastrous fire aba.u: 40 years ago ruined the machinery of the overshot wheels so they were reflaced by turbine wheels. "At one time," he said, "business was so good we had four overshot wh~els running at the same time."
A raised wooden trough directs water from the creek into two spillways encased in 2~foot high housings constructed from dove-tailed wooden slats. The water falls freely into the housed spillways and turns the turbine wheels set at water level. A complicated assortment of metal shafts, wheels and leather belts transfers the power from the turning turbines to
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SAWMII.:L CONFERENCE DELEGATES
Sawmillers Hold Annual
Conference In Trenton
Lumbermen, sawmillers and landowners recently solved a riddle in arithmetic at the annual Sawmill Conference at Trenton. Asked by Extension Forester C. Dorsey Dyer "When is 12 twice as much as 10? " , the seasoned woodsmen quickly answered it always is true when sawing timber.
Dyer proved the axiom to the skeptics among the more than 100 participants by displaying two piles of lumber sawed from representative trees. The pile sawed from the 12 inch tree was twice the size of that sawed from the. 10 inch one..
The extension forester. urged the group to concentrate on sawing larger trees to the benefit of both landowner and sawmiller. He said many sawmills are going out of business because they are losing money through poor management and because they are cutting small timber. This also hurts the landowner, and the state as a whole, he pointed out, because it depletes future timber supplies and reduces sawtimber yield per acre.
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Round -Up O f Ranger News
LeRoy Page has been named by the Turner County Forestry Board to replace Max Gay as ranger for the Turner Forestry Unit.
A native of Wheeler County, Page was a member of the county forestry unit staff for 14 months. He is a graduate of Wheeler County High School.
New headquarters are now being erected for the Emanue1 County F ore stry Unit in Swainsboro, according to Leon Ray, county forester.
Located south of Swainsboro on U.S. Highway 1, the new building will be 42 by 60 feet. Ray said the new headquarters will include space for offices, standby room, supply room, bath and garage. A portion of the building will be for storage and housing forestry equipment.
Crisp County Forestry Board recently elected vicechairman Holt Walton as acting chairman. He succeeds the late R.R. Rogers who died early last month.
D. Loron Williams, chairman of the County Commission, said the commission at its next meeting will accept and consider recommendations to fill the vacancy.

LOOKING IT OVER--District Forester Hugh Alfen looks over the site of his future Second District headquarters. This district is the only one in the state not having a new headquarters.
David Hancock of Redding School woa first place in the county 4-H Junior Forestry competition at Bibb County Forestry Unit headquarters.
Second place went to Richard Haflen of Heard School for a talk on Pine Bark Beetles of Georgia. Young Hancock's winning address was on Identification and Uses of trees.
The winner will represent Bibb County 4-H clubs at the district meet at Americus in August.
Contest judges were Bibb Forest Ranger H.P. Stapleton and County Agent D.F. Bruce.

TAKING THE OATH--Gov. Marvin Griffin is shown swearing in the newest member of the Forest Research Council, B .M. Jones , Dallas, Ga.
Replacing Decatur County Ranger Palmer Rich is Robert Hall of Newton. Rich is taking a leave of absence for six months duty in the Army.
Hall attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College last year and plans to enter Georgia Southwestern College during winter quarter.

TO YOU I GIVE--Guyton DeLoach, (L), f.resents. a certificate of appreciation to Russell Z. El er for hts
contribution in the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign.

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Oldest Sawmill. .
(Continued from Page 8) the sawmill and the grist mill. The motion of the saw or the mill stone can be stopped or started by removing or replacing any one of the drive belts.
In addition to the circular saw, Costly has still another unique machine stationed in the sawmill. It's a planer large enough to dress 24-inch lumber. "I don't know if there's another one in the whole state," Costly admitted, "but I've had people come to me &om all over Georgia to dress wide lumber on the planer."
Although the sawmill and Costly appear to be in good condition despite their years, the old gentleman says they're both about ready to retire. "Me and the mill are a little rusty," he said, "and although it's still going strong, I'm about wore out." He said he now is planning to sell the mills and some 700 acres of land and live a life of leisure.
Costly took pleasure in pointing oUt: that the saw mill still can cut lumber "with the best of them." "It can cut it cheaper, too," he declared, "because you don't have to keep }riming it with fuel."
O.L. COSTLY
Sawmill Con[eren~ce. .
(Continued from Page 8) The conference opened in a 70-acre tract of timber
owned by J.A. Case where several talks and demonstrat-
ions were held. It then moved to the A.L. Dyer Lumber Co. where the group witnessed good sawmill practices and discussed the future of the lumber business.
Speakers on the program were Dyer, Master of Ceremonies Prof. B.F. Grant of the University of Georgia Forestry School, Charles Place of the Georgia Forest'ry Commission , Ben C. Cobb of the TVA, Rufus H. Page of the Georgia Forestry Commission and U.S. Forest Service and E .A. Clevenger of Corley Manufacturing Co.
Sponsoring the conference were the TVA, Georgia Forestry Commission, U.S. Forest Service, Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, University of Georgia and Dade County Forestry Demonstration Club. The A.L. Dyer Lumber Co. served as host.

UP HERE--Sanford Darby explains the Commission's methods of handling seedling orders and distribution.
USFS Holds Training Session For Forest Tree Nurserymen
Forest tree s'eedli~g nurserymen from three southeastern states attended the recent U.S. Forest Service training session at the Athens Center for Continuing Education.
Over 60 state, federal , paper industry and private nurserymen from Georgia, Alabama and Florida attended the meeting. Floyd Cossitt, USFS nursery specialist from Atlanta, served as moderator for the three-day event.
Cossitt and other specialists presented papers and led discussions on cone collecting, seed handling _and testing, cultural techniques in growing nursery stock, soil management and diseases and insect control. A tour of the Georgia Forestry Commission's Hightower Nursery at Dawsonville was another feature of the meeting.
Forestry Commission Reforestation Chief Sanford Darby was one of the speakers. He explained the Commission's methods of handling seedling orders and their distribution.
The Commission's key sort card system of order processing was recently commended by the Forest Service for its excellence and its adoption was recommended to all state nurseries by Region Eight office.
FLOYD EXHffiiT-Above is the Floyd County Exhibit set up dwing the initial festival of the Floyd County Wildlife Assn.

Georgia Forestry July, 1957
You DON'T USE
A SAWLOG FOR A FISHING POLE I

Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Macon, Georgia

Let's Proted the Forests from Fire