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-(From the Vidalia Advance) Georgia's newest tree seedling nursery, now being constructed on U.S. Highway 41, some 15 miles below Macon, will be named the "Phillip Morgan Nursery," in honor of the first chairman of the Georgia Forestry Commission, it has been announced by Gov. Marvin Griffin. The new nursery is designed to have the world's highest production of forest tree seedlings. The 140-acre project will boost Georgia's .>tedling output to a projected 250 million annually, according to Guyton DeLoach, direct'or of the Forestry Commission. G. Phillip Morgan, often referred to as the Father of Georgia's modern-day forestry program, was elected chairman of the newly-formed Forestry Commission in March, 1949. During his tenure of office, Georgia's forestry program rose from forty-sixth position to first place in the nation. Prior to his death in 1953, Mr. Morgan devoted most Jf his time to promoting reforestation ano the production of pine seedlings by state nurseries. 
More Productive Forests 
-(From the Toccoa Record) One of the most important facilities in this country is our forest land. They cannot be separated entirely from the farms on which .there are huge reserves of timber and each year they are being increased and replacements very scientifically managed. The amount of timber land is vast but it is all not located in ~he South, although much of it is, enough at least to affect the picture as a whole. The land acreage owned by farmers in Georgia this year is increasing despite the fact that" very definite trend has been noted from rural to urban areas of population. The whole pattern of living is changing. In fact, has changed and the ne>N conditions make it a very different picture from what it was before the modern age started and up to this time. Sixty-four per cent of the land in Georgia, or a total of about 25 million acres, is in forests. This is only slightly less than four percent of the land area in the entire country. Many people who continue to live on farms are able to live in the country and work at the various industries in town which are consistently employing them. The continuity is made desirable and possible by the good roads we have built, the automobile and shorter working hours. Many phases have been changed and many more are going to change and the forest lands and the use to which they are put and the care given them will largely determine their value. Paper and pulpwood products in or near this state have already changed conditions and the value of the timber acreage still largely owned by farmers, is increasing and stimulating business. It has not reached its climax and will not until every owner of a large tract joins those who have already tried to make them more productive with modern methods.-Dawson News. 
 
Vol. 10 
 
GEORGIA FORESTRY 
August, 1957 
 
No.8 
 
 
 
Published Monthly by the 
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION Box 1183 
 
Macon, Georgia 
 
Guyton DeLoach, Director 
 
Members, Board of Commissioners: C. M. Jordan, Jr., Chairman .________________________________________ Alamo 
Sam H. Morgan -----------------------------------------------------Savannah HO-sc0a.r CSu. mGmarirnigsso_n____-_--_-_-__-_--_-_-_--_,-_-_-_-_-__-_-_-_-_-_-__-_-__-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-D--o- -n--a--l-soHnovmileler 
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. 
 
    
EDITOR _________________________________________________________Frank Craven 
 
STAFF ARTIST -----------------------------------------------------Dan Voss ASSOCIATE EDITORS_____________ Bill Kellam, Joe Kovach, 
 
    
 
DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION: 
 
 
 
DISTRICT !-Route 2, Statesboro 
DISTRICT 11-P. 0 . Box 26, 
 
DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgeville 
DISTRICT VII-Route 1, 
 
Camilla 
 
Rome 
 
DISTRIOT 111-P. 0. Box 169, DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 
 
Americus 
 
1160, Waycross 
 
DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333, DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, 
 
Newnan 
 
Gainesville 
 
DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, DISTRICT X-Route 3, 
 
McRae 
 
Washington 
 
Cy Perkins, Eormer district ranger management in the Second District at Camilla, died last month in an Albany hospital of a heart ailment. He was 25. 
A native of Lake City, Fla., Mr. Perkins joined the Georgia Forestry Commission in 1952. He was a graduate of the Lake City Rangers School. He served as Clay County Ranger before being promoted to district ranger in February of 1957. 
Surviving are his wife, the former Nina Fountain; a daughter, Patricia Dean Perkins; and a son, Cy Perkins Jr., all of Camilla; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C."J. Perkins of Lake City; and two sisters, Mrs. A. P. Johnson of Carizzo, Tex., and Mrs. Kenn<'th lves of El Paso, Tex. 
Burial was in Lake City. The funeral was atte~d~d by personnel of the Georgia Forestry Commisston. 
On the Cover 
The announcement on this month's cover heralding the arrival of the G. Phillip Morgan Forest Tree Nursery has. Its unique qualities. It's really directed to Its parents, the more than three mlltlon citizens of Georgia. All Georgians will share economically from Its 1,roductlon after lt!ii spJ.:outlng plants reach maturity. The proud guardians of the Georgia Fort>stry Commission Reforestation Department are proud of their ward and hold great ext,ectatlons 
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Jones confers with local Insurance agents. 
 
Nevv Insurance Oiler s Timber Protection ~ 
 
Georgia scored another forestry first recently with the announcement that the Forest Insurance Company is ready to receive applications for insuring timber. 
The home-owned-a nd-operated corporation is the first of its kind in the nation. It was formed by a group of Georgia timber owners to protect their woodlands and other forestlands throughout the state. 
Chairman of the board of directors is Jim L. Gillis Jr. of Soperton. Valene Bennette of Alamo is vice chairman, Barrie L. Jones of Atlanta is president, and Jim E. Parker of Ludowici is treasurer. 
Designed to insure both merchantable and unmerchantable timber, the corporation was capitalized at $300,000. It holds a reinsurance treaty with the famous Lloyd's of London. 
In announcing activation of the company, the president paid tribute tc the "outstanding" fire protection activi ties conducted by the Georgia Forestry Commission. "Although the 'Georgia Forestry Commission does, without doubt, the best possible job of protecting forests of any state in the nation," Jones said, "fire still poses a major threat to growing timber. Every year some 200,000 forest acres are destroyed in Georgia, representing untold thousa nds of dollars in pure fire loss." 
He pointed out that the commission's "unequalled" protection and the fact that the corporation was formed by 
 
the very people who will be insuring their own timber has enabled the company to offer its clients exceedingly low premiUms. 
Jones said the firm will insure timber for as high as fifty dollars per acre. Applications will be accepted only from the 147 counties under protection of the Georgia Forestry Commission. 
Following a series of statewide meetings with local insurance agents during which rates and coverages were discussed, Jones said the new insurance plan was received with enthusiasm. Policies now may be discussed or purchased from local insurance agents in towns included in the protected area. 
One of the outstanding benefits the new timber insurance will provide, Jones explained, is that it will tend to increase the loan value of timberlands throughout the state and will establish a present value on unmerchantable-size timber. 
Other benefits he li sted included protection at thepresent real value of merchantable 'pine and hardwood timber against fire loss, protection of profit potential of present unmerchantable size pine timber against fire, protection of the value of timber against kill by insects as a result of fire, damage surveys and adjustments are made only by qualified registered foresters and premiums paid are deductible as a business expense, thus reducing net cost. 
 
 All hands stand hy ns Smith explains log grading 
 
Smith measures logs as Harris an1l Page rest after stackIng them 
Georgia Forestry Commission management personnel studied wood utilization from the stump to the finished product at a recent school at _Athens. 
The three-day session planned by Forest Products Technologist Rufus Page included talks by prominent scientists, teachers and manuf<!cturers among whom were Dr. John F. Harris of the Forest Produ'cts L aboratory, Madison, Wise., William Belvin of Savannah, dire.ctor of the Herty Foundation, Professor Roy Carter of N. C. State College, Raleigh, Taft McClain of Moore Dry Kiln Co., Jacksonville, Fla., W. R. Smith, USFS Forest Utilization Service, Asheville, N. C., Dr. Allyn Herrick, {lew dean of the University of Georgia Forestry School and numerous other USFS technologists from Athens and Asheville. 
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Who's for steaks1 Ralph Peter asks as he lights charcoal kiln at Whitehall 
 
 Eliiay Girl Sparkplugs 
Gilmer Forestry Program 
If residents of Gilmer county aren't forestry minded, it's not Mildred Parker's fault. The 17-year-old high school senior has been busy as a one-arm paper hanger, preaching the gospel of sound forestry practices throughout North Georgia. 
By writing original news articles for the Gilmer County Times-Courier, nailing up posters in favorite gathering places, making speeches and participating in general bull sessions, Mildred figures she's reached almost every landowner in the area at one time or another with helpful forestry hints. 
 
Jl lld red (JOsts u reminder us Ranp:er nover looks on 
The pert brunette agrees that forestry usually is about as attractive to the fair sex 'as high button shoes. Nevertheless, she declares that the woes or rewards involved in timber management affects every citizen of a community regardless of age, position or class. As a 4-H Club member, she said realization of this situation spurred her interest in forestry as a me:ms of improving her home, her community and her country. 
Gilmer county's largest industry is its lumber business," she said, "and the success or failure of the industry will touch the lives of every man, woman or child living there. If we can get timber owners to cut wisely, grow more trees and prevent forest fires, it stands to reason our lumber industry will flourish indefinitely." 
Mildred's first introduction to forestry came about a year ago when she was looking for material to fill her 4-H Club record book. Her father, James B. Parker, who works with the Soil Conservation Service at Ellijay, owns several acres of timberland which he keeps under close management. This family interest prompted her to write the Georgia Forestry Commission requesting forestry information . 
The young 4-Her's enthusiasm to share her new-found knowledge resulted in a series of newspaper articles and special talks before civic groups. The popularity of her ef' forts brought requests for more from neighboring towns. 
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Plant tour re,euls regal background of lo"ly pa11er bag 
SPCA Meetings Stress 
Pulp Value to State 
The battered ~Julpwood trucks that line Georgia's highways are a symbol of the state's growing econotny, H. E . Ruark said recentl y in Valdosta. 
Addressing one of a series of statewide Southern Pulp wood Conservation Assn. "get acquainted" meetings, Ruark declared that each truck means as much to a community's economy as an "above the average" farm. 
A former Georgia Forestry Commission fire control chief, Ruark now is senior staff forester of the OwensIllinois Glass Coro. Woodlands Division. 
He told the almost 100 High School Vocational Agriculture teachers and area timber owners at the meeting that a pulpwood truck annually grosses about $22,500. "To equal this amount," he said, "a farm mu~t produce some 12,500 pounds of tobacco, 20 tons of peanuts, 20 tons of beef and 300 cords of pulpwood." 
Ruark pointed out that the trucks represent a free enterprise type of a balanced economy. They help to feed the growing number of forest products industries entering the state, he said, and bolster local economies by increasing buying power and circulation of money. 
"Regardless of whether your county has a forest products industry in it or not," Ruark explained, "it still profits. from the use of wood as a source of raw material. Trucks form the lifeline of the pulpwood business." 
Following Ruark's talk, representatives of Georgia's pulpwood industry answered questions posed by the guests. Details of marketing, manufacturing and sales of pulpwood products were discussed. 
The two-day meeting ended with a tour of the OwensIllinois Glass Corp. paper plant at Valdosta. 
Similar meetings were held at Rome, Macon, Savannah and Brunswick. Purpose of the sessions was to introduce teachers and businessmen to the problems and aims of Georgia's pulpwood industries. 
 
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O'Barr and Arrowhea1l (;hlef Urooks look over first fruits at Arrowhead. 
 
Ne"" Look in Orchards Yields Master Pines 
 
Long famed for its unmatched peach orchards, Georgia will soon be noted for superior pine seed orchards, too, if a unique Georgia Forestry Commission research pro-  gram continues to bear fruit Jt its present rate. 
The goal of the Forestry Commission pine orchards is to one day provide enough seed to fill the state with d master race of pine trees. Georgia is the first Southern state to have started such a project. 
The orchard program began in 1954 under the direction of Forestry Commission Assistant Director Dr. Leon Hargreaves, Jr. The U . S. Forest Service has provided technical advice. Thousands of seedlings have been set out and thousands of grafts made indoors and in the two experimental orchards. 
And this year big cones are appearing for the first time in large numbers in the 325-acre Arrowhead Orchard on the Bleckley-Pulaski County line between Cochran and H awkinsville and in the 100-acre Horseshoe Rend Orchard at Glenwood . 
"We are bringing superior pines from the grave to the cradle by taking the old trees and starting them over," Arrowhead Project Leader Norman Brooks and Horseshoe Bend Leader Mac O'Barr, both of Macon, said. 
The orchard pines are produced by grafting a cutting from a carefully selected superior pine onto an ordinary 
 
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sapling. A successfully grafted tree assumes the characteristics of the superior tree and lives to produce thousands of superior seed-be:>.ring cones. 
Slash and loblolly pine ai'e the principal species, with longleaf pine, Arizona Cypress and yellow poplar due to be grown later. 
Cuttings are obtained from mature trees which are selected throughout the state for their fast growth, straight trunks, short branches, freedom from disease and seedproducing ability. 
The cuttings are grafted to potted seedlings by the leaders or by high school and college forest ry students who work with the Commission in the summer. Grafting is done indoors in the winter and in the orchard in the summer. Field grafting- will be employed in the future beca use it is more economical and efficient. 
The orchards are carefully laid out to provide easy cu ltivation and to allow the pines to cross-pollinate each other. Inferior pines around the orchards are cut down so their pollen won't lower the quality of the superior orchard trees. 
The orchard program is young, but if one day Gerirgia pines rival California redwoods in size, you can thank the s~perior seed prod uced in Georgia Forestry Commission nursenes. 
 
Arrowhead gets shave by tractor-drawn mower. Ground urou ud !'lues Is. manlcnred by hoe. 
mrlo us steJ)S In fie ld grafting ut 
 
Students _wor k op Jllltted seedlings. 
 
Macon lath house grafting 
 
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~Irs. Bohler samples product. of Harper Rose Nursery 
 
We'1'e heard that one before-Stuart Moore and Harper tell Ranger Paul ~Ioore 
 
F(}R~T"R~ Without Trees 
 
District foresters are human. So are their assistants. Like in the First District. Bill Harper hates to say no. But if Bulloch Ranger Paul Moore comes in and wants a new tractor when there are no funds, what can Bill do but turn thumbs down. On the other hand, funds have been found for a new headquarters for R<mger Moore, so H arper, Assistant District Forester Stuart Moore and District Ranger AI Morgan are glad to help Moore survey a projected site. Pines aren't the only things that grow in Statesboro. Bill has filled the district office grounds with beautiful flowers. District Secretary Mrs. Jackie Bohler agrees that the roses are unmatched in beauty and aroma. 
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Harper gives Morgan an ear exam as he sun-eys unit site 
 
Why secretaries get gray 
 
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Foresters tell 
The Forestry Story 
 
Cameraman zeroes In on Schultz and Bray as program gets underway 
 
"Telling the Forestry Story" was the theme of the recent annual meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the Society of American Foresters at the Center for Continuing Education iri Athens. 
The foresters were not only told the story, they also were shown it via a closed circuit television program which featured such famous video personalities as Assistant Tenth District Forester Bill Schultz of Washington, Union BagCamp Paper Corp. Forester Bill Bray of Greensboro and Extension Service Forester Zeke Baxter of Athens. H ans Deeken of Station WGTV dircted the show and TV Production Manager Hill Bermont appeared with the foresters. 
Other speakers included State Training Leader S. G. Chandler of the Extension Service, Extension Service Radio Editor R. D. Stephens and Bibb County Soil Conservationist Bill Forney of Macon, who spoke on photography. 
At the spirited business sessions the members agreed that an intensified forestry student recruiting campaign was needed. The shortage of foresters is growing, the mem bers agreed, so more high school students must be interested in forestry as a vocation. A committee was appointed to push recruiting. 
There was also considerable discussion of changing society membership classifications. The group decided to pass the matter on to the entire membership before takirig action. 
 
Director Deeken briefs TV celebrities before closed circuit spectacular 
S. G. Chandler .shows foresters bow to tell 'em 
 
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RANGER ROUNDUP 
 
Through the cooperation of the Okefenokee Scou t Cou ncil and the Eighth District Office, Waycross, a forestry exhibit was placed on display at the recent Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Attending the Jamboree were 53,000 Scouts and about 10,000 visitors. 
Richmond Countians recently were given a tragic lesson in fire preventio~ W. E. Anderson of near Martinez lighted a fire to smoke out a swarm of bees. The fire swept out of cont~ol. Anderson was stung. The exciterpeflt felled him with a heart attack. He is now under a physician's care. Lesson: Bee-ware of forest fires. 
 
Strictly f&r the birds-Floyd County Rnnger Kelly Nelson provisions a flre-prelentln' bird shelter recently placed In a roadside park ne.ar ,ustrlct headquarters. 
Wilkes County Ranger T. H. Bullard of Washington was elected president of the lOth District Rangers Club at a recent feed and business session in Elberton. Lincoln County Ranger William Partridge Jr. was re-elected secretary-treasurer. Richmond County Ranger T. M. Strickland, club president for the past two years, was nominated for the post again, but like Coolidge, did not choose to run. 
Bleckley County Ranger Hall Jones stepped into a big pair of shoes recently when he was elected prsident of the Fifth District Rangers Club. The size 16 gunboats were 
vacated by Dodge County R:mger J. D. Beauchamp, who 
stepped down to the secretarv-treasurer post. 
Sweet-Toothed Smoky-The Fulton C&unty Forestry Unit whi)lped UJI this attractive float In honor of East Point's se,entleth birthday. The bear-size three-decker cake was decorated with pine seedlings Instead of candles. Ranger Terrell Jones sald If the 11arade had been longer, "Smoky" would hne eaten the float. 
 
Roll 'em, girl, Roll 'em-fhief Investigator John R. (Bob) Gore Jr. gets a Jlermanent Identification record of Mrs. Virginia rrow, Whitfield County dispatcher. At u recent Se,enth District towermen's meeting, Gore and Investigator Herman Scoggins Inked the huwkeyes' fingers a.nd presened their 11rints for JIOsterlty. 
At least two county units in the state are enjoying a carefree summer. Ranger Chesley Gilmore of Macon Co unty reports no fires during the past four months. Col- 
quitt County Ranger Albert Sanders says his unit has passed three fireless months. Naturally, both units are using their firefighting time promoting management and information and education . 
It's official now. Lowndes County owns .the site on which the Lowndes County Forestry Unit is located. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad recently deeded the 10.7 acres to the county. The transfer was made by the railroad's fo restry agent Carl S. Sewell to Joe King, secretary of the Lowndes County Commissioners. 
It's hard to retire abandoned forestry headq uarters. Due to the merg.::r of Crisp and Dooly counties, the Pinehurst building was vacated while the Crisp unit serves as a temporary base. Almost before the radio quit squawking, the attractive cottage was turned into a home for Patrolman John Langstor., his wife and two children. 
 
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Gilmer County Ranger J. L. Dover says Mildred is a 
human dynamo. "Her one-woman campaign has helped me a great deal," he said. "it's had a healthy effect on forestry practices in the area and has made the people more conscious of the importance of fire prevention and sound management." 
Aside from her forestry activities, Mildred is treasurer of the local Beta Club chapter, president of the Gilmer County FHA, secretary of the senior class at Gilmer High School and takes :m active part in the Oakbnd Community Club. 
Her varied activities are not unrewarding. She has made several trips to nearby towns to speak. The 4-H Club record book that launched her forestry interests won her a two-week trip to Ft. Collins, Col. at the expense of the Cotton Producers Assn. 
Mildred's future plans are to attend the University 0f Georgia where she will major in Home Economics. She wants to become a Home Demonstration Agent. Meanwhile, she says she will continue doing her best to promote sound forestry practices in Gilmer county or wherever she goes. 
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John Hammond draws back with a blank as Sam Thacker swings finished product 
Two Forestry Commission Assistant Dis~rict Foresters, Sam Martin of Gainesville and Floyd Hubbard of Rome, presented papers on the handling of timber in the woods. 
The school consisted of morning lectures and afternoon visits to a ,baseball bat factory, a sawmill, an experimental chard>al kiln, a house under construction and a wood chipping plant. 
 
Radio teehnlclan John ('arUsle tunes truck talk oox 
Jackie needs the inspiration from nature, for a district secretary's lot is a hard one, at the best. Usually the phone's ringing, th.e radio's barking, the books need posting, letters need filing and Investigators R. M. McCrimmon and Louis Bradley need help with their reports. Whew! 
Another busy lad is Radio Technician John Carlisle. He's usually on the run keeping he district's hundred and one radios humming. Assistant District Forester AI Smith and District Ranger Elza Clifton are other key district office personnel, bunhey weren't available the day the photographer passed through. 
 
Scouts learn ABr's of fire safety. lOth District Investigator Tom Shelton of Wurrenton, In the fur coot. tells Girl Scouts at Cump Tunglewootl neur Augusta how to bulld safe cam11 fires. roiumhlu ('ouuty Leo Lorenzo ta.ught tree ldentffl. cation the sume tluy und luid out a nature trail for the camtJ. 
The ann ual FARMORAMA farm and forestry equipment exhibition i~ scheduled for September 5 at Deere Acres, .near Monroe. The latest equipment lines will be displayed. 
 
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