Georgia forestry, Vol. 11, no. 6 (June 1958)

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Cruising the Nev.rs
Education Paying Off
In Forest Fire Fight
(From the Atlanta Constitution)
Smokey the Bear is not only getting as well known as the Goldilocks trio, Smokey is also getting results.
We know Smokey today as the spokesm a n for the Forestry Service's campaign against forest fire s.
Last year the number of fires in the woods was a record low, 83,392, under 100,000 for the first time in history.
The U.S. Agriculture Department gives credit to Smokey the Bear, to the Keep Green CCl.mpaign put on by industry and government, to the Southern Forest Fire Conference and to a cooperative public.
Apparently education is paying off. Man gradually is acquiring a pride in the guardianship and wise use of the forest.
Congratulations Miss Cowart
(From the Carroll County Georgian)
Miss Wylene Cowart of Lowell, a Junior in the Roopville High School, is to be congratulated by all of Carroll County on her selection as ''Miss Georgia Green.'' The state title won in Atlanta last week makes her queen of the forestry industry of Georgia for the coming year. This is the second consecutive year that a Carroll County beauty has won the title. Last year the queen was Janice Threadgill, of Temple, a blonde. So, you see, whether they are blonde or brunette, coming from the north or south side of the county, it makes no difference so as long as they are from Carroll County-they are beauty queens.
Carroll County is proud of its new queen and the forestry industry she represents. This has become one of the chief industries of the county and efforts being made to promote and preserve the forest products have the support of our people.
State's Timber Crown
Has Lost Some Glitter
(From the Adel News) Georgia's nationwide leadership in the tlmber indus-
try ,:, o n shaky ground these days. It rec ently lost two first place spots to Florida, which
fo rged a he a d in seedling production .tnd in tree farm ac r.._,1ge.
Prospc t" are good for Georgia rec apturin,c; the lead in seedling~ t his vear. The state also is mak ing an .1ll-o ut effort i:o '>vir. :1 contest in which Flo rida, Alaba ma, ~.1i ssi ssippi ! 1d Georgi a are pa rt icipating to develop rc< farm".
Ti r ber b ds de v e l o~ r to a multimillio n- dollar indus-

Vol. 11

GEORGIA FORESTRY
June,l958
Published Monthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION
Box 1183 Macon, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Director

No.6

Members, Board of Commissioners:

C. M. Jordan, Jr., Chairman Sam H. Morgan ______________________ ________ _ Oscar S. Garrison __ __ _____ __ __ ____ _

_Alamo _______ Savannah ____ ____ _____ Homer

H. 0. Cummings __ _

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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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Rip Fontaine

DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT I-Route 2,
Statesboro DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 26,
Camilla DISTRIOT III-P. 0. Box 169,
Americus DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333,
Newnan DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328,
McRae

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgeville
DISTRICT VII-Route 1,
Rome DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box
1160, Waycross
DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416,
Gainesville DISTRICT X-Route 3,
Washington

try in this state during recent years. Even so, the potential has by no means been reached and it is disturbing to see Georgia slip behind Florida, if only temporarily, in preparing for the rich harvest ahead.

Pine Festivals Sa lute
Important Money Crop
(From the .-\tlanta Constitut ion)
In recent days there has been several Pine Tree Festivals in different parts of our State. We now have nine pulp and paper mills that are valued at more than 476 million dollars and employ some 12,000 workers, not including independent producers of trees. It is known that nearly 80 million dollars is spent for pulpwood in Georgia each year.
Senator Russell spoke at the Festival at Swainsboro and a ceremony was slso held near Macon to begin the tree-planting campaign in Georgia. Georgia plants more trees than any other sta te, 170,000,000 seedlings in 1957. T hi s is a worthy record. The billionth seedling to be planted thi s ye ar shows our nation 's .:letermination to pla!"lt trees faste r than the y are being cut.
We are happy that Georgia wa s chosen as a site fo r this tree-planting program. We need lesson s in fores t conservation. More trees means money in Georgians' pockets.

''Now here's a fat pile of s havings," Pag e tells Saucier, Walt Smith
Government-Industry Wood Residue Survey

Designed To Bring Industry To Georgia

A $36,000 state-wide wood residue survey designed to brin g new industry to G eorgia go t underway this mo nth on a county-by-county basi s, Frank Albert and Scott Candler, directors of th e Georgia Forest Research Council and Dept. of Co mm e rc e, respec t ively, a nno unced.
The 159-count y s tudy i s being financed by the Georgi~ Fore s try Commi ssion , Commerc e Dep t ., Research Council and the U. S. Fore s t Service.
"This survey i s urgently needed," Walter Cates, executive vice president of the State Chamber of Commerce s aid, "to provide accurate and up-to-date data on the availability of wood by -product raw material in the state. We get many re ques t s fo r s u ch informa t ion, but are un a ble to provide it. Many i ndustries which might locate here th erefore do no t consider Georgia."
Forestry Commission and Forest Service personnel are conducting the gi ant 'chip cen s u s' to help indus try pick profitable spot s to es t ablis h woad-by-prod uct-usi ng plants in Georgi a . The s tudy is pinpoi nting the locations of all types of wood residue.
The study cons ists of three s tages, according to Forest Product s Technologist Rufus P age of the GFC and the USFS. They a re the developing of wood waste

conversion factors, listing the locations and types of residue and compiling the information into a book-length report and posting it on I B~f cards.
In February Page and USFS Research Forester Joseph Saucier of :,facon began developing wood convers ion factors for the various existing wood-using industries, such as planing and saw mills, furniture factories, and veneer, plywood and wood-treating plants.
Page said conversion factors are developed by sampling different type plants to determine the volume and type of residue produced. This data is based on mill equipment and annual production. These factors may be applied to any section of the state to determi ne the approximate volume of wood residue available there.
County rangers of the Forestry Commission, supervised by P age, Saucier and Commission assistant district forester s , are d oing the actual leg wo rk .
They are checking all wood-using industrie s in their counties which pro duce waste. This information i s forwarded to P age and Saucier, who will analyze it into a booklength report listing the type, value and availability of the rPsidue. The dat a on each source of re sidue will be p o , red on the IB~ cards for quick r eference.

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While the details of the Georgia wood residue survey were still in the planning stage, Forest Products Technologists Rufus Page and ] oseph Saucier of the Georgia Forestry Commission and the U. S. Forest Service were already travelling about the state developing residue conversion factors.
These factors will be used, after all existing wood re sid ue and its sources have been located and catalogued, to tell industry approximately how much residue they may expect to be available in any area in which they are interested in establishing a plant.
Page and Saucier recently visited a typical planer mill-the S. I. Storey Lumber Co. at Crystal Springs-to develop its conversion data.
First, they weighed typical loads of rough dimension stock and 4/4 pine lumber. The lumber was then end -trimmed and dressed on all sides to prepare it for sale. Page and Saucier collected th e end trim from the loads and weighed it to determine how much was lost from the loads in this manner. Dressing produces shavings, which cause additional loss.
Next, the dressed lumber was reweighed. The difference in weight was the amount of residue. However, this weight included the moisture in the lumber.
Since the survey will be based on oven-dry weight, the moisture content of the lumber was measured next to

Moisture meter tells amount of u>ater in lumb e r
..iete rmi ne how much of the weight of the lumber was water.
The conversion factor i s then obtained by dividing :he number of bo ard feet i n a load of lumber into the I weig ht o f resid u e prod uc ed from that load. This facto r, when a pp l ied t o a mill's production, tells residue-usi n g nanufa cturers th e volume and type of residue they can : aunt on from a mill in a gi ven period. Thus they will mow wheth er th e residue production of an area would ustify th e e s t a bli shment of a plant of their own.

Purchasing agent ll'e tgbs, drwer watchC's
Valdosta Lumber Company
Buys Saw Timber By Weight
Perhaps heralding a v1s10n of things to come in the forest industry, the Griffin Bros. Lumber Co. of Valdosta purchases sawlogs by weight. For more than a
year, J. T. Griffin has been buying South Georgia timber
by this untraditional method. "We save the time of the trucker bringing in the logs
and the wages of a scaler in our yard,'' Griffin. explained. "This purchasing method also eliminates argument about scale and enables us to buy a truckload ' of logs in a few moments."
Purchase by weight has attracted a great deal of interest among Georgia sawmill owners and re search foresters. Forest Utilization Service fore sters have been comparing the scale, grade and value of the truckloads of logs with the cost of these logs purcha sed by traditional scaling methods.
They have found that the principal disadvantage of purchase by weight is the fact that it makes no allowa nc e for log grade.
~l1fest Pr~ducts Technologists Rufus Page and P. J.
B_o1s say th 1s can be overcome by setting up minimum s1zes and paying a weight premium for large, quality trees. They have reached no definite conclusions on thi s method of log purchase. However, they recommend th at it be given further study.
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Dressing produc es more residue

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Scholars Make Big Splash

Life is like this after graduation

And anot her Injun bit the drink
Rockin' 'Round The agle

Paul Bunyan pre sided over the first annual conclave of southern forestry schools held recently at Rock Eagle St ate Park near Eatonton. Some 150 s tudents, repre sentin g eight schools from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, both Carolinas and Texa s participated in the weekend outing.
Apparently inspired by the effigy of the patron saint of foresters , which was their own handiwork, the hosting University of Georgia foresters won the fiel d events. Louisiana State University was second while Stephen F . Austin Universit y of Texas placed third.
Th e 12-foot wooden s tatue had a 65 -inch waist. He watched the students hustle th rough such events as tree identification, compass and pacing, and timber and tree diameter estimation. In a lighter vein, the yo ung foresters battled it out in log chopping and rolling, greasy pole climbing and canoe jousting.
Eigh t s tudents were named to a com mi ttee to work out plans for futur e conclaves. They are P. F. H a1111 n. Auburn , Garland Gravely, C lemson , John ~m ith . F lo; la Tom Dell, LSU , Paul Rey, .\.1ississip pi S tate , 1ack Sturghi ll , . C. St a te , Gene Chance l l or and John Ut ey. St ephen Aus ti n, and W. C. Be ckha m, Jr. of t he Un 1versity of Georgia.
Sam Lyle, Auburn , Carl Dalton, Clemson , Professor Apple quist , L SU,' Jim Moak, Miss. State, Dr. Robert Baker, Stephen Austin and Stew art Greggs, . C . St ate , were named faculty advisors to th e committee.
J. H. Panter, pre sident of the UGa Fores try Club, said the conclave was held to introduce profession al practices to the students and to promote fellowship among Southern fores ters.
B. E. Allen of Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. addressed the group on what industry expects of foresters. He said that continued education, hard work and faith would produce fores ters who provide industry wi th better qual ified personnel.

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Where's that chain saw s ale sman?

Purple people-eaters attended, too Whew! Give me dice anytime!

Eadie Isn't oo Easy On Sixth

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Night and day they labor away at the Sixth District

Office in Milledgeville. Several new projects .are keeping

District Forester Frank Eadie's men busy.

They have just opened a new fishing worm nursery

behind the truck shed. While not so elaborate as so me o f

the Forestry Commission's spacious pine breeding

plants (it cost closer to 35 than $350,000), the worm

factory plays a vital role in district office mo rale.

It also provides temptation for the boys to slip off

for some rod and reeling, but thus far they've resisted

the lure. No name has been selected for the nursery

yet. Eadie says he's afraid that our state's illustrious

citizens might resent being associated with worms,

except at the end of a fishing pole.

The Sixth believes in keeping its spacious grounds

neatly groomed. To prevent loss of time while the lawn

is being manicured, Radio Technician Carlton Dubberly

installed a portable radio on the lawn mower. However,

all the bugs haven't been worked out of it yet. Mower

operator Fred Smith said he removed several pounds of

sli ced up beetles, grasshoppers, snakes, ants and tr ~k and car tires from the radio the last time he tried
to ck~ n it. Seems the mowe r'll cu t a nything that gets
in the way.

The current crash proj ect is the deve1.1pment of a sm .dler <;rPr::iec of bear. The big Smokeys <...re so diffi-

cult to J arou d the state an d suffer such discomfort

fro m the sn, dl trur k cage that E adie is tr ing to get

th e University of l c1rgia veterinary school to cross a

bear, a Chihuahu. an a s;oat.

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day s,'' he <> agely commente d.

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f)ickins on lift s , !U chey holds, 13 illu e bunt s

Ing lis, Barb er conducte d seed school

Seed Certification
Meet Held In
Swainsboro
;,fanagemen t foresters from Georgia recently attended the first school to be held on forest tree seed certification in the United States.
] ohn Barber, chairman of the Forest Crop Improvement Coriunittee of the Georgia Chapter ,Society of American Foresters, conducted the school in Swainsboro.
The one-day session was held to train inspectors in the certification of seed for seed production areas and seed orchards. The inspector's job will be to make sure the areas comply with the seed certification standards.
The standards will cover land requirements, field inspections, field and seed standards and instructions and procedures on seedhouse or bin inspection of cones or seed and cone drying.
The seed Certification Standard Booklet, that is to be distributed shortly, was brought about through the co-operative efforts of the Georgia Crop Improvement Association, the Georgia Chapter Society of American Foresters and the Georgia Forestry Commission.
Hugh Inglis, Athens agronomist, addressed the group on the fou ndi ng of the Georgi a Crop Improvement Assoc. an d the important rol e i t will play in seed certification .
The school was sponsored by the GCIA, the SAF and the GFC.

Rangers Keep Chattahoochee Valley Green

'Smoke_y Be a r' recentl y inv ad e d the s tore windows, display counters, banks and shopping centers of Columbus.
The invasion was in recognition of Chattahoochee Valley Keep Green Week, and was sponsored by the Georgi a Forestry Commission units in the Chattahoochee Valley area.
Mascogee County Ranger Floyd M. Cook , along with rangers from Chattahoochee, Harris, Stuart and Talbot Counties, presented an intensive program on forest management and fire control to the people of the area.
Film shorts were shown at theatre s and public schools. In addition, the area was saturated with literature concerning all phases of fore s try.
Participating concerns were the First ational Bank, ] . C. Penny Co., Maxwell Bros. Furniture Store, Sears and Roebuck, Davison Paxon, Loveman' s Dept. Store and the Macon Road and Traffic Circle Shopping Centers.

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Japanese Forest rs Tour Forestry Center

Seven Japanese industrial and governm ent forest ers

recently toured the Georgia Forestry Center as part of

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a two~month tour of United States forests and forestry facilities.
The forest management experts were accompanied by

Walt Dutton, technical leader of the U. S. Forest Ser-

vice, and Masaaki ~,fatsushita of the Japanese Embassy,

Washington, D. C. While in the United States the group is observing pro-
cedures for forecasting future needs in Japan of forest products, operation and management procedures and the procedure of handling sales of national forests to pri-

vate companies. Dutton said the trip is being made because the in-
creasing demands of growing industry is requiring more lumber and pulpwood than Japan produces. He added that the Japanese are particularly concerned about the pulpwood shortage.
The Japanese foresters said there still remain opportunities in their nation for changes in forest land policies and improved management practices which will make it possible to increase production and to obtain a balance between forest growth and harvest.

DeLoach explains 'copter spray rig

Mitchell Co. Ranger

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made his do-it-yourself work pay off as a time and

economy saver in Mitchell County.

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Ranger Cranford recently took the unit's pick-up

truck and converted it into a tree planter loader.

The project cost only $40.

The loader, which works on a pulley, enables one

man to do the work that previously took two. Wi th

the loader, two planters can be transported at one

time.

Second District Forester Hugh P. Allen said that

the loader was the only one of its kind in the dis-

trict and possibly the only one in th e state.

Ranger Cranford said that last . ear the Mitchell

County unit provided 110 farmers wiu the unit's

eight planter s. With th ese p lanters ove.. 3,000,000

seedlings were planted.

This year, l e said, we plan to provide even more

farmers with th e planters due to the planter loader

which enables us to use our extra man on another job.

Cra nford shows planter hois t

Logging the foresters ...
JI GLES MAKE CASH JINGL E .... .. Martin Richards, Greensboro grammar school student, i s $35 richer, thanks to his jingl e-writing ability. He won the Forestry -Wildlife Jingl e Con te st of the Ga . Federation of Women's Clubs over 3, 000 fourth and fifth-grade contestca nt s. Other winners we re Bobby L aird, Statesboro ; Sandra Hardage, Forsyth; Phyllis Orr, East Point; Ellen Horne, Thomasville; E th el Teston , Brunswick; and Dona ld Whitl ey, Summervill e .
GAIR SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS... Darryl Neidlinger of Rincon is the winner of the four-year $500-per-year forestry scholarship to the University of Georgia awarded by Gair Woodlands Corpn. of Savannah. A senior at Effin gham County High, Darryl is president of the senior class and FFA chapter and has been ac tive in the Beta, Science and Athletics Clubs. He was on th e track and baseball teams . State and private foresters and educators composed the selection committee.

Bob Wynens tried out the Commission's new spraying plane on the Hor seshoe B end Seed Orchard near Glenwood recent ly when he covered the 100-acre fa c ilit y with fe rmate and wat er t o combat fusiform rust. Forest Engineer Mac O' Barr, charge of the orchard, termed the spraying a success . MISS GEORGIA GREE AP P EARS ... 1iss Wy lene Cow art, ne wly -crowned state forestry queen, made a flying start wi th offici a l duties recently when s he _we lcom ed one of the world' s fastest men back to his home county . USAF Maj. Adrian Drew of Temple was honore d fo r setting the wo rld's s peed record in De c ember, 1957, of 1,297 .6 mph. Queen Wyle ne gave the Major a ke y to Carrollton.
Soil Stewardship !fe ek was observed in Franklin Count y with a demons tration sponsored by Franklin -Hart Ranger Harold Payne, holding th e mike . Holding son Bobb y is Bob Bailey, who planted 50 acres of pines during the week to finance Bobb y's college education.

Everybody was happy at rec ent meeting of Forest Products Research Societ y at Macon , including , left to righ t, Ralph P et er, Ath ens, secre tar y, Gus Jac obson, Talladega, A la., president, and Rufus Page, Macon, host.
P ERSONNE L SHIFTS... A us1ng fl ood of ma n agemen t reque sts in the Ninth District caused the shift of Asst . Seventh District Forester Armand Cote to Jefferson as Ass t. District Forester, Man ageme nt. Cot e is operating from the Jack son-Barrow Forestry Uni t. At his own re quest, El za Clifton, former First District Ranger, has returned to his home county of Jenkins as ra nge r. He succeeds John Riche y, who resigned to work as a Ft. Stewart forester.
0 TIMBER SHORT AG E ... A report by the Forest Indu s tries Council says th at timber growth is being maintained a t a safe level above timber cut. Earlier this year the U. S. Forest Service issued a report saying that we would run out of timber unless radical reforestation changes were made. The Council report say~ Americans are already taking these steps and that this nation will have plenty of timber for the rest of the century.

Georgia
June,1958

F.mered as !'::<.:ond class mattn at d~ .. "- ~ Office, Macon, Georgia.

TREES AND HI STORY
Take A Leaf From Erickson's Book.
DISCOVER the value of America's forests as the mighty Viking did centuries ago . Lief didn't land in Georgia, but if he had, he probably would have established the naval stores industry, for this state's sturdy pines long were a prime source of lumber and pitch for ship construction. Now they're a source of just about everything--from wood sugar to lumber. They will be a source of profit to you if you plant, manage and protect them wisely.

MISS PAULTIIE GRIFFIN
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