Georgia forestry, Vol. 10, no. 9 (Sept. 1957)

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TOP-RANKING COMMISSION SCORES ANOTHER GOAL

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Cruising the News
Our Growing Wood
(From the Vidalia Advance)
Progress in forest management on taxpaying lands indicates i:he United States will maintain, and even improve, its present favorable balance of wood growth over removal notwithstanding a growing population and increasing consumption of wood.
In its newest booklet, "Out Growing Wood Supply," American Forest Products Industries, sponsor of the Tree Farm movement, says the present forest situation "gives promise of adequate supplies of wood for out growing population in the years ahead.''
The book points to the forest industry's role in expansion of forest management, greater utilization of all parts of the tree, fire prevention, better control of insects and disease, a growing roster of professional foresters, research developments and the American Tree Farm system itself as factors now contributing to the nation's growing wood supply.
"For the first time in many years, our forests are growing more wood than we are using,'' says the fout-color booklet which is receiving nationwide distribution. "The practice of good forestry on private lands is spreading rapidly."
The present favorable timber balance, the book says, was revealed in the government's newest appraisal of forest resources, which shows total annual growth of the nation's forest growing stock exceeds total removal-harvest plus mortality-by 25%. In trees of sawtimber size total removal is only 2% higher than total growth.
Tree Planting
Means Future Wealth
(From the Atlanta Constitution}
Clearing out of "deadwood" in Georgia is not confined to the executive offices of the Capitol.
The foresters have been busy cleaning out dead and diseased timber and planting trees to replace those that go into the gnawing maws of the pulp and paper mills.
In the 1956-57 planting season 56 million trees were distributed to be set out in the state.
The number beat the record of the previous year by three million.
What is more significant, for the second year in a row the number of trees planted exceeded the number that moved to the mills.
The planting of trees on land that has been submarginal under rowcrop production, the' replacing of fore.sts faster than they are consumed bolsters the general economy in Georgia.

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Vol. -l

August, 1957

No. 9

Published Monthly by the

GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION



Box 1183

Macon, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Director

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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,

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DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT !-Route 2,
Statesboro
DISTRICT II-P. 0. Box 26, Camilla

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505,
Milledgeville
DISTRICT VII-Route 1, Rome

DISTRIOT III-P. 0 . Box 169, Americus
DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333, Newnan
DISTRICT V-P. O.. Box 328, McRae

DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 1160, Waycross
DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville
DISTRICT X-Route 3, Washington

Cone Collecting
Becomes An Industry
(From the Tifton Gazette)
Who, growing up in these parts and for year~ enjoying the entertaining pastime of kicking pine cones around, would have ever figured these things lying around on the ground for all these years would become an industry?
It's amazing, and wonderful, to see that the cones are now worth a dollar a bushel, and are being put to use by the forestry industry. A dollar a bushel was big money back in out kid days and we believe a lot of kids nowadays would be mighty happy to earn a buck for a bushel of pine cones!
Things are looking good, when pine cones may become one of out area's busy new industries!
On the Cover
F ~e seers get a kick out oE making goals as do Georgia s leading gridironers. The Geocgia Focestry Commiss1on's record-breaking cone collection already appears co be aver the cop and between the poses. Top-ranked Gettgia again is first choice by experts to lead the nation in refocescacion.

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Ranger Bowen, Dealer Tomberlin. inspect pine fruit

Cone picking Georgians were well on their way this fall toward the collection of the largest pine cone supply in history for the Forestry Corr.mission.
One hundred thousand bushels of cones-including 75,000 slash, 23,500 loblolly and 1,500 longleaf-were sought by the Reforestation Dept. this year to provide seed for six forP. st tree seedling nurseries and to replenish the Comrr.is ;ion's depleted seed backlog. Dry weather in past years cut the cone crops and forced the commission nurserymen to dip into their seed reserve.
At press time the slash cone quota had been gathered and was already being processed in the new plant at Macon. Many hundreds of Georgians were awaiting the go-ahead on loblolly and longleaf collection. Heavy rains had delayed the latter species' maturity date.

The new cone curing and seed extraction plant, which is the only one of its type in the world and the Reforestation Department's pride and joy, is already under full operation, after speedy construction this summer so it could handle this year's cone crop.
Reforestation officials sa1d the plant will process about 3,000 bushels of cones a day. These should yield about 1,500 pounds of seed. The utilization of the gravity flow principle will result in the seed being in perfect condition because of less handling. The cone processing will start in the top floor of the three-story building and will continue to ground level.
Another innovation is the utilization of cones. After the seed are extracted, the cones will be pulverized and used as mulch on the seedling beds in the nurseries.

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Lake City Research Center at Lake City, Fla. He is

married and the father of two girls. \ccording to Cooper, the center will conduct experi-
ments to determine the possibility of using aerial droppings of chemicals and water on large fires. Other pro-

jects will include exploring effects of weather on forest

fires, the nature and effects of forest fuels and use of

new firefighting tools. He said Georgia is the first state in the East to enter

McNasser, Cooper discuss fire research

the aerial dropping phase of firefighting. He said experiments conducted in the West along these lines were

A new center aimed at finding causes and control o large emergency forest fires in the Southeast made it~ debut recently at the Forestry Center at Macon.
Sponsored by the Georgia Forestry Commission, the new department will be known as the Macon Forest Fire Research Center. Its purpose is to coordinate all forest fire research in the Southeast.

successful. Purpose of aerial drops is to slow down the progress of

a running fire and "cool it down," Cooper said, so that

men and equipment.can move in to suppress it. He point-

ed out that the big problem in combatting large blowup

fires is that they move fast and burn hot, preventing

normal suppression activities.



Organization of the center is nearly comp1eted, Cooper

R.W. Cooper of the U.S . Forest Service will head the new bureau. He has been with the forest serv1ce since

said, and plans now call for installing proper equipment to conduct initial experiments.

wow Woodsmen
Study Forestry
In Ware Wilds
Some 40 po.tential Paul Bunyans recently combined education with recreation while attending the annual Boys of Woodmen of the World chapter.
Hank Williams, assistant district forester from Way-

cross, offered helpful hints on good forest management, followed by a series of cartoon films. Other activities included woodcraft, swimming, reforestation, fishing, fire control, boating, marksmanship and water skiing.
E.E. McNeal served as host for the week-long encampment. The boys ate, slept and worked at the camp site and did their share in making repairs and improvements.
Purpose of the camp is to provide supervised vacation priviledges for boys i!"l the Waycross area under 16 years of age.

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"Beaver" Swindell busy in the woodwork

CASUAL TIES PLAGUE DO-IT-YOURSELFERS IN SECOND DISTRICT

It took a lot of blood, sweat, tears and headache pills to build the Second District's new headquarters at Camilla.
Sporting beards cultivated for the coming f..!itchell County Centennial, district office personnel and rangers pitched in to help reduce the building cost. The fuzzyfaced amateurs serve~ as part-time carpenters, electricians, plurrbers and painters .
The idea was good, but the jinx seemed to be on. Radio Technician John Harter tried to get well ahead in his work so he could lend a hand. Returning to Camilla late one night he fell asleep at the wheel and wound up in the hospital with a banged-up hip. His doctor says he'll be there until early October. Investigator Jirr Swindell tangled with a "new'~ surplus air compressor during the painting of the warehouse-truck shed. The compressor's "T" -model .type crank kicked back and sprained his arm. The bearded sleuth is now modeling a chick bandage and splint on his right wrist. Decatur County Patrolman Hubert Brock climbed a ladder to fit a piece of molding around the ceiling of the storeroom. The long trip down ended at the Camilla hospital where he gained the added weight of eight stitches in his right index finger. Brock said the molding didn't fit too well, so he shaved the wood and his finger with a
pocket knife. Despite the one-handed efforts of Swindell and Brock,
the Second District now has an office that will rival any in the state. In the tradition of the Macon Forestry Ce~ ter, each room is paneled with a different kind of wood. The main office has two 11athrooms, and the warehouse -truck shed has a corr bination toilet-shower.
District Forester Hugh Allen says he expects to move .i-nto the new headquarters in October, even though his staff will include a couple of crip,ples.

Brock a nd Harter relax a fre r mishaps

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And another cull bit the dust ... "The ~fonster" breaks chru ac Sopenon

Commission ' In du stry After a drenching start at Waycross, the Georgia Forestry Commission last month kicked off its series of statewide fire fighting training maneuvers. A five-inch downpour cut short the initial "dry run" in the Eighth District, but similar campaigns were completed without incident in the First and Fifth and Seventh

Open Fire Exercises
and Nint.h Districts, respective.y. Almost 300 representatives of forest industry took part in the drills held at Waycross State Forest, in
the Soperton-Swainsboro area and in the DahlonegaDawsonville area .
Purpose of the maneuvers was to acquaint industrial

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What's buzzin' cousin? Com center is beehive of activity

and Commission field personnel with the organizational set up used to combat large emergency wildfires. Trainees held key positions in each maneuver while experienced personnel stood by to instruct and evaluate the operation.
According to Fire Control Chief James C. Turner Jr.,
the training sessions were ''a complete success.'' He said the trainees responded "admirably" to simulated problems they faced, a nd "everybody played the garr.e earnestly.''
Particjpants ate hot rr.eals prepared in the Commission's rr.obile kitchen unit , and fought off mosquitoes
while sleeping on cots stacked in Commission tents The ell'ergency mobile he,.r1nuarters a nd emergency warehouse equipment from the Forestry Center at Macon were on the scene, as well as firefighting units from n~i gh bor ing counties. Chief Investigator Bob Gore and his staff of Commission sleuths were on hand to direct traffic and round up any firebug s operating in the fire areas .
Each simulated fire covered 2,500 acres a nd was reportedly burning fast , fanned by stiff winds . After a preliminary briefing on organization, the firefighters arose at dawn and launched their cooperative attack. Throughout the day simulated problems such as breakdowns, snake bites and spot overs were imposed to add realism to the drill.

Scalpel, suture, wrench, hammer

You did a good job, boys but ...

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Painting the woods red

40 Future Foresters Attend Homelite Camp

Daniell gives scrub oak the brush off

Over 40 high school students attended the first Future

Forester's Mana_gement Camp at the Richmond County 4-H

Camp near Augusta. The camp was sponsored by the

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Homelite Saw Co. and was conducted by Forestry Com-

mission personnel.

Youths were selected by Commission county rangers

and Homelite dealers and were chosen for their interest

and achievements in forestry. They came from counties

throughout central and north Georgia.

Rain plagued the campers the first day, but the weather

let up and the youths were able to get in five daily ses-

sions of marking, cutting and stacking and measuring.

Roy Daniell of Atlanta, one of the camp's guiding

spirits, was in charge of saw instructions. The absence of

injuries during the hard work in the woods was a tribute

to the guidance of Daniell and Camp Boss and Safety Di-

rector Bill Schultz of Washington, Assistant Tenth Dis-

trict Forester.

Although the boys worked hard during the day, t"here

was plenty of time for swimming and athletics. At night

there were movies, a stunt night, a dance with Richmond

County Home Demonstration Club girls and a talk by

Chief Investigator Bob Gore of the Commission.

Dean Allyn Herrick of the University of Georgia School

of Forestry dropped in on graduation night to award diplo-

mas and to see if he couldn't lure some future foresters

back to Athens. Homelite officials said they were well

pleased with the camp and indicated they plan to make it

an annual affair.

Young Bunyan saws as Thacker watches apprehensively

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Prof. Schultz, right strains under Payne-ful burden

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Give up, Grizzle, Davenport can sleep thtu an earthquake
STUDY FIRST AID IN HILLS

Ninth District Rangers retreated way back into the peace and quiet of the hills of Northeast Georgia recently for three days of intensive first aid study. The rangers are studying first aid from qualified instructors as part of their performance standard requirements.
Instruct ors included Assistant District Forester J arne s McElhannon, Investigator W.H. Kierbow and Stephens County Ranger Joe Dean from the Ninth District, as well as Assistant Tenth District Forester Bill Schultz, who came up from Washington.
The after school curriculum included some unofficial water skiing instructions by experts Dean and Hall-Banks Ranger Ernest Rolan. Fishing and several sedentary sports were also on the recreation agenda.

Exhausted Rajah Burtz bocne by slaves Bower, Cantrell

Cochran picked up wrong card, so Thomas, Davis make repairs

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FARMERS C LUB
SPONSORS MANAGEM ENT
MEETING

Farm Club Chief Hay greets DeLoach

Middle Georgia bankers and businessmen received a thorough briefing on forestry in their neck of the woods at a recent management demonstration at Macon sponsored by the Macon Chamber of Commerce Farmers Club and the Georgia Forestry Center.
Over 30 business leaders were welcomed by Commission Director Guyton DeLoach. DeLoach pointed out the great potentials of forestry in the Macon trade area and told how the Commission is pushing its expansion through improved fire control, the increased production of pine seedlings and better forest rr.a nagement.
The group then toured the Hitchiti Experimental Forest near Macon under the guidance of U.S. Forest Service Project Leader Ernst Brender.
Forest Technologist Rufus Page, Commission Management Chief William McComb, and I.&E. Chief Frank Craven reported on developments in their fields.

Sleuths model uniforms for all occasions. Shown from left to right are Investigators McCrimmon and Scoggins discussing the new outfits with Chief Gore.
Commission Sleuths
Don New Uniforms
The debut of the Georgia Forestry Commission Investigators' uniform this year highlighted the fall fashion parade.
The distinctive apparel was designed by Chief Investigator Bob Gore and represents a delightful contrast with traditional peace officer uniforms . Unlike the comparatively drab outfits worn by most lawmen, Chief Gore's creation highlights the forestry colors, green and brown , to advantage.
Topped by a beige Texan chapeux, the uniform is compc posed of a khaki shirt with forest green epaulettes, a green tie and green military coat with brown epaulettes and green trousers with a thin brown stripe on the outside seams. The summer uniform includes trousers and short sleeve shirt, and the winter uniform calls for coat, long sleeve shirt, tie and trousers. Brown shoes are worn with both ensembles.
According to Gore, the new uniforms not only add distinction to the sleuths but they also induce respect, promote public relations a nd improve the appearance of the none-too-handsome investigators.

McComb, Macon Mayor Merritt, right, check earnings

RANGER ROUNDUP

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Patrolman Erwin Crider of the Whitfield County Forest-

ry Unit recently received severe burns of the left arm and

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side while fighting a fire believed to have been incendiary. The patrolman was qurned when he refused to

leave his tractor when a wind change threatened to engulf

him and "his vehicle in flames. Ranger C.V. Bramlett said Crider could have escaped unharmed it he ran, but

the patrolman elected to drive his tractor to safety. Cri-

der was released from Hamilton Memorial Hospital after

recieving emergency treatment.

Georgia again led the South in production of pulpwood last year. According to a report from the Southern Forest Experiment Station at New Orleans, Georgia increased its pulpwood harvest 19 per cent to pace the remaining 11 states in the survey with a record output of almost four million cords. Alabama again placed second with a total harvest of slightly more than two million cords.

TAXI SERVICE-General Services Chief Lester Lundy sics astride the lacesc addition co Georgia's growing F orescry Cemer ac Macon. It seems the cencer is expanding so rapidly chat distances are measured in eroded shoe le ather Through the courtesy of the Air Force, the surplus scoocers make visits between the various deparcmencs more frequem and less expensive.
A spark of romance burned brightly in Fulton County recently along with 21 acres. Fulton R a nger Terrell Jones blamed sparking lovers for the three blazes that caused the damage.
Upset by night calls that pulled him from his bed to suppress the fires, Jones complained to the county commission. He asked that the favorite lanes of amorous motorists be blocked off. Amid protests from the younger set: the ranger emphasized it wasn't the sparking he minded-it was the sparks.

As far as che eye can see . . Irrigation pipe for the spacious new Morgan Nursery near Macon awaits installation at the 105-acre seedling factor y. Twenty miles of concrete and metal pipe and over 3,000 sprinkler heads will insure chat the seedlings of a plenciful wacer supply. A 1,500- gallon -per-minute we ll has been dug co provide el agua.

A lot of Georgia youngsters soon will be dogearing

dictionaries for words that rhyme with increment borer,

dibble, pine cone and Smokey Bear.

The reason is the Conservation Department of the

Georgia Federation of Women's Club jingle contest. Open

to foutrh and fifth grade students, the rhyming race is

ANTENNA BASE-Forest Engineer Herbert Darley beholds a

designed to develop conservation and appreciation of Georgia forests. Cash prizes will be awarded next May

gr uesome sight in Commission Radioman Hyland Cosey as he measures out the base for the F orescry Cemer 's new scate wide radio antenna. The mammoth aerial will rise some 420

at the federation's convention in Columbus. Contest de-

feet and will extend two-way com ace to parts of che scace

tails are available at the federation office in Atlanta's

now in the radio blackout area. Chief Radioman Henry

Hotel Grady.

--Cannon, center, is supervising the operation.

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