Georgia forestry, Vol. 11, no. 8 (Aug. 1958)

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Vol. 11

August, 1958

No.8

Pines Are Profitable

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

(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

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

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

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EDITOR .............................................................. Frank Craven

STAFF ARTIST ........................................................Dan Voss

ASSOCIATE EDITORS............ Bill Kellam, John Currie,

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Rip Fontaine

or any other weakened conditions such as fire. 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 L!_rger branches. By removing these larger stems, the insects have little or no chance to build up.

DISTRICT OFFICES,

GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT I-Route 2,
Statesboro DISTRICT li-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

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 wiU be felt by the original producer."
Slash Pines Educate
(From the Adel News)
A few weeks ago an article came out in a daily newspaper stating that one hundred acres of slash pines would mean four years of college to a youngster near Eastman.
There are plans in cooperation with forest experts to whip the timberland into top productivity. Scrub hardwood is being eliminated and more pines will be planted in their place this fall.
These pines are receiving all necessary treatment for growth at a very reasonable amount per acre; which can be secured from a forestry unit or the Georgia Forestry Commission .
We have money "growing on trees" here in Georgia if we will only take advantage of the opportunity. The trees must be nourished and treated. They must be cared for when young and spaced so the trees can grow into the size needed.
Let's grow more slash pines and take care of them. Money still talks, even on trees.

Summer Tree Cutting
(From the Ocilla Star)
The Star has been urging its readers for a number of years to let nature have a chance to enrich them by planting pine trees, and has succeeded in interesting many.
However, the old custom of burning off woods continues by some land owners, and only a few are taking proper care of their young pines. There are vast areas in South Georgia not suitable for cropland, but are ideal for growing pines. Yet much of this area is kept devoid of the wealth-making pines with the habit of burning the woods every spring so th at scrub cows may have some early wire grass to eat.
We believe landowners can derive more benefit from their uncultivatable lands by a sound reforestation program, with less emphasis on providing a little wire grass for livestock.
On the Cover
This object is not a pancake from outer space. It is the inside of a loblolly pine shoot as seen by the eye of a microscope. The cross-section is being used in the study on the tree improvement program in Georgia. This particular sprout was photographed by one of Georgia's research foresters , who are constantly seeking ways to produce seedlings that will grow into superior stands.

SEEDLING OUTPUT RECORD SEEN; NURSERIES EXPECT 350 MILLION

A national record number of forest tree seedlings will probably be produced by the Forestry Commission this year. Director Guyton DeLoach announced.
A recent inventory of nursery stock revealed that there are almost 350 million seedlings in the hundreds of acres of plant beds of the Commission's six nurseries.
''Barring weather disasters or unusual attacks by insects and disc;!ase, we should produce a record number of trees,'' DeLoach said. ''Our nursery personnel are taking all precautions against insects and disease. If the weather holds, we will lift over 300 million seedlings this fall."
No state has ever grown this many seedlings in one

season, DeLoach said. Georgia's best previous production was 147 million trees in 1957.
Various factors will probably cut down the !'umber of seedlings to be shipped to purchasers from the 350 million trees now in the ground. Elimination of low qualiry trees, loss to weather and other such normal attritional factors should cut the number which the purchasers will receive to closer to 300 million.
Southern Regional Forester J. K. Vessey, of the U. S.
Forest Service, stated, "that Georgia's plans to lift a record breaking 300 million tree seedlings this year will be a tremendous shot in the arm to Southern Forestry." Vessey added that this provides a pattern for expanded
future goals. "The Georgia Forestry Commission deserves praise
for its accomplishments in providing stock to plant thousands of acres of land best suited for forestry throughout the state," Vessey concluded.
DeLoach attributed the record figures to the initial planting of the new 100-acre Morgan Memorial ursery near Macon, to revised nursery management plans, to
good seed and favorable weather. "I think Sanford Darby and his reforestation personnel
have done a great job," DeLoach said. "They are due a hearty thank you for this history-making achievement.
A final inventory of the seedling crop will be taken in October just before the lifting and shipping begin. The present inventories are:

Herty - Albany Morgan - r..tacon Davisboro - Davisboro Horsesho,e Bend - Glenwood Hightower - Dawsonville Page - Reidsville

43 million 120 million
53 million 36 million 33 million 67 million

Seed For Next Year....

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Approximately 100, 000 bushels of pwe cones will be collected this fall by the Georgia Forestry Commission to provide seed for its nurseries, Commission Reforestation Chief Sanford Darby announced.

Fifteen thousand bushels of loblolly, 82,000 bushels of slash, 2,000 bushels of longleaf and 1,000 bushels of white pine cones will be gathered by Georgians during the early fall season.
The Commission will contract with several dealers throughout the state to furnish some 10 to 20,000 bushels of cones each. The dealers, who will bid for the contracts, must be residents of Georgia, be able to finance the purchase of the cones from the collectors, have suitable places

to store the cones until they're turned over to the Commission, must operate in designated areas, deliver the cones to specified collection points and must post bond guaranteeing delivery of the cones. Payment will be made on a lump sum basis upon completion of the contracts.
Pickup points for slash pine will be Swainsboro, Vidalia, Eastman and Douglas. Loblolly concentration points will be located at Newnan, Milledgeville, Washington and Buena Vist-a.
After the cones are collected, they will be processed at the Forestry Commission's seed extraction plant at the rate of .3,000 bushels every three days. Other curing sheds at Macon ready 6,000 cones every two weeks for seed extraction. Thousands of bushels more will be dried in warehouses throughout the state.

New Nursery Is Set In Tattnall

Federal Soil Bank funds will make possible the construction of the Geor gia Forestry Commission's seventh forest tree seedling nursery, Director Guyton DeLoach announced .
The 140-acre facility, which will have about 110 acres of seed beds, will be constructed in Tattnall County along Highway 178 about one mile south of Reidsville State Prison. The land is being donated to the Commission by the prison.
The Commission will continue with only six nurseries in operation, DeLoach said, as the new facility will replace the present Horses hoe Bend Nursery near Glenwood. No state funds will be used in the construction. This economy is being made possible by the tr ansfe r of equipment from Horseshoe Nursery to th e new one.
DeLoach said all permanent personnell will transfer to the new location. Donald Jones will continue as nursery Superintendent. All vehicles, irrigation

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A tchison bears down on seed bed la yout

new-style office, packing sheds highlight nurs ery

equipment a nd o ther material wi ll be shifted fr om Hor seshoe to the new location. The Reforestation Dept. of the Commission, headed by Sanford Darby, is designing the buildings, seed-bed l ayo ut and portable irri gation syst em .
A feature of the nursery wi ll be the placing o f the office and the seedli ng packing a nd s torage sheds un der one roof. The structure wi ll s i mplify and accelerate the

packing and shipment of seedlings , Darby said. The nursery wi ll be plan t ed for t he fir s t time next
spring. It is being surveyed no w by Commission personnel. Construction will s tart as soon as the contracts c an be let. The site was chosen because of the availability of labor and the high productivity of the soil.

Prances is not safe from Third District pest s eve n

Little Ocmulgee Has Big Doings

Reid, aides inspect spra y kill

The Fifth District is in the middle of Georgia and right in the middle of the Fifth is the Voice of Ocmulgee Her se lf , :Ais s Frances tanley, the hard ( but not over, she admits) worked district se cretary .
F ra nce s is the wee, small voice whom almost everyone in t he Commission has tal ~ed to a t one time or another as she keeps the messages flo wing through the radio relay at the Ocmulgee office. The Fifth's headquarters are located about four miles north of McRae, across Highways 31-441-319 (it's rea lly only of normal width) from Little Ocmulgee St a te Park.
The Fifth is consistently one of the outstanding forestry districts, as the plaques hanging on numerous county unit walls throughout its borders will attest .
Jim Reid is the present wheelhorse. He has pushed established forestry practices and is always ready to try a new technique which will boost Georgia's number one industry . He and Assist . District Foresters Wes ley Jones and Al J acobs are proud of the cull hardwood kill the Commi ssion 's helicopter achieved o n a tract near the office. Hundreds of young pine were released for rapi d growth .
Radio Technician Tracy Stuckey keeps the signals tran smitting. Inve s tigator Charlie Tillman keeps firebugs in line throughout the di strict, while Assist. District Forester Jim Hill and District Ranger Carl Adams teach county personnel how to fight fire .
Hill isn't above bringing in brother forester s Carl Dennis and Glenn C reech fro m the Americus D. 0. to worry Frances righ t in the middle of a busy period.

Have New Exhibits, Will Travel Is Commission 1958 Fair Story

Voss mounts letter, V arnador e, Fontaine mount gu11

F air time will mean fun time for thous ands of Ge orgians this fall, but it's meant precision work for the Information and Education Dept. of the Forestry Commission.
I & E personnel, both skilled and unskilled in the art of paint slinging and exhibit design and construe-

tion , irreplaceably a ssisted by Commission Carpenter H. P . Varnadore , have produced more than 20 exhibits to bring the forestry message to fair-going Georgian s.
Artist Dan Voss has designed both small and large exhibits to stress fire control and undesirable hardwood control. Succumbing to gunslinger-iris, through heavx

Voss paints small exhibit, folded one at left
exposure to Western TV programs, Voss used the six-gun theme throughout his exhibits this year.
Both cull trees and woods burners are shown being prodded out of the Georgia forestry picture by the foresters' oversize six guns. The exhibits will be lighted by fluorescent bulbs, which will also illuminate transparent photographs mounted on the body of the exhibits.
Last year's exhibits took a terrific beating from being hauled about the state from fair to fair, so this year Voss designed sturdy plywood packing cases for the exhibits. Both the large and small exhibits can be broken down into small sections and packed in the carrying cases. This added protection should extend their life expectancy considerably, Voss hopes.
Exhibits from other yea rs were incorporated into the new ones. Th"ey we re consumed by Varnadore's hungry saw to provide parts for the new models.
The exhibits will have two color scheme s this year. There will be a green theme and a brown and yellow combination. The colors will be used wi th both themes on both size exhibits.
The exhibits are light and simple enough th a t they can be assembl ed by t wo men from the directions which accompany them. They have free space on them to allow rangers to touch them up, if they wish, with pine boughs, posters, fire prevention bears and other educational material.
Plywood was the primary material. The supporting stands are made of aluminum. The exhibits are about seven feet high, but they vary in width.
Varnadore cut and assembled the exhibits in his workshop at the forestry center, while other I & E personnel assisted Voss with the painting, lettering and final touches.

Fontaine, Kellam pack exhibit Varnadore turns out another exhibit

Gala Washington
Production Enc:ls
Rescue Training
Civil Defense rescue training for Georgia Forestry Commission personnel ended at Washington recently with a typical Tenth District dramatic flair.
Ropeology Professor Jack Grantham of Atlanta scattered 10 teenage disaster 'victims,' made up with grease paint to look like the real thing, throughout, under and on top of the three-story Washington-Wilkes Grammar School. The night-time test concluded the two-day rescue school.
Grantham then turned loose rangers and district office personnel from the Tenth, as well as visitors from the Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Districts and the Augusta Fire Dept. They turned up the 'injured' lying in the basement coal bin, stuck halfway in the furnace, on the stairs, under junk inside and outside the school and on the building's roof.
The 'victims ' were lowered from the roof on slings,

sedan chair: civil defense style

foresters fix victim in school coal bin
out of windows on chairs and were lashed in baskets and carried out on stretchers. Splints and bandages were applied to keep the lads 'alive' until they could be rushed to the nearest hospital.
The 'victims' were members of Washington Scout Troop 10, of which Assist. lOth District Ranger Bill Schultz is scoutmaster. Two boy s from St. Joseph's Home in Washington alwo joined in the fun.
The school concluded the state-wide training for Commission personnel which started early in June. All 10 districts have now had the schools. Grantham, who is Georgia Civil Defense communications co-ordinator, taught all the schools, assisted by Commission Fire Chief James Turner or Assistant Chiefs Turner Barber or Curtis Barnes.
Commission personnel are now qualified to teach similar schools in their own counties and to assist in rescue work.

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DeLoach, commission pilots check Georgia air maps
13 Planes To Join Fire Fight

Improved forest fire detection methods based on the increased use of light spotter planes will be used during the coming fire season by the Georgia Forestry Commission, Director Guyton DeLoach announced.
Commission pilots and planes will almost completely take over the vital job of detecting wild fires and then directing ground crews and equipment against the flames.
DeLoach said this improved system will be installed at no increase in cost over present detection methods, which depend primarily on observation from fire towers and contract air patrol.
Thirteen light monoplanes, based at six Commission dis trict offices,, will enter the fire fight thi s fall. Fulltime and part-time pilots will operate two planes each from Gainesville , Waycross and Camilla, one each from Washington and Americus and four from Statesboro.
The planes, equipped wi th two-way radios and loudspeakers for direct ground-to-air communication, will range over counties in each district, investigating "smokes" to see if they are wildfires or prescribed burns.
Thorough training of the pilots by Commission Fire Control personnel will enable them to analyze the possible maximum size of the fires, the progress of the flames, and the men and eq-uipment needed.
The pilots will be able to direct the fire fighters to th_e hottest part of the fire by the quickest routes. They w1 ll be able to warn and direct to safety any fighters who are in danger of being tr apped by the flames.
"By hiring permanent pilots, we will be able to maintain a steady year-round reservoir of trained fire patrol pil~ts. Previou sly, we have used contract pilots only dunng the November through April fire season .
. ''One big drawback to the contract system was the h1gh turnover r a te of the pilots. It too k a t least two weeks to train them for air patrol. Yet, too often they q uit their jobs for one reason or another as soon as we

had trained them, " DeLoach continued. ''Our pilots will be available during the summer
months, will be qualified to do light maintenance work on th eir planes and will perform other Commission duties whey they're not needed in the air. Our personnel department is hiring them with this in mind."
DeLoach said the Commission will not abandon its fire towers, although quite a few less full-time towermen will be used as temporary towermen on less dangerous days when air patrol isn't necessary.
P art-time pilots wi~l s upplement the full-time crew. The part-time men live in the towns where the planes are based and have already indicated that they will be available. A full-time mechanic will be stationed at the Commission headquarters in Macon to handle all heavy maintenance work on the Commission planes.
DeLoach pointed out that the Florida, Louisiana and Texas forestry departments already own and operate their own fire patrol air fleets. They have found this method of fire detection both satisfactory and economical, he said.
"We ac tually need from 25 to 30 planes to patrol the entire state," DeLoach said. "We hope to obtain them as funds become available." He added that the possibility of obtaining federal military surplus planes is being thoroughly investigated.

Gore Holds
Gore draws bead on road enemy

Road Safety Schools
All Georgia Forestry Commission drivers have completed a four-hour course on safe driving taught by Chief Investigator Bob Gore of the Forestry Commission.
Gore stated that the course was designed to impress the responsibilities of driving on the driver. The ultimate goal of the course is to save lives and property loss, he added.
Commission drivers learned that for an accident to be an accident, it had to happen without foresight or expectation and must be sudden or by chance . Gore stated that bad brakes or slick tires were no excuse.
The chief investigator pointed out that most accidents were caused by failure to grant right of way, driving too fast for conditions, failure to have vehicle under control, wreckless driving, improper passing and backing, inattention to driving and deficient signal lights.
The driver who has accidents either has the wrong attitude toward driving, lacks knowledge of the rules of the road or is driving a vehicle with physical deficiences.
Have complete control of your vehicle at all times, check your tires and brakes and you won't be next, Gore concluded.

Georgia's vocational agricultural teachers recently received training in the fundamentals of forestry at Carrollton, Louisville, Athens and Vienna.
The ~ro gram sponsored by the Trust Company of Geor-
gia included such courses as disease and insects, fire control, mensuration, reforestation, hardwood control and thinning. A similar program was held for 17 negro vo-ag teachers at Camp John Hope near Fort Valley.
The courses were started approximately three years ago by John Sibley, president of the Trust Company of Georgia, to give the teachers more practical experience in promoting better forestry practices.
The courses were taught by Reid Parker, University of Georgia; Ed Kries, State Department of Education; and T . B. Hankinson , Jim Turner, Chuck Place, Floyd Hubbard and Bob McMurray of the Georgia Forestry
Commission. Other instructors include Harry Wy ant , graduate stu-
dent at the University School of Forestry, and Robert Lee, Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. J. J. Bryant, University of Georgia , was co-ordinator for the schools.

Vo Ag Teachers Get Forestry lnstruct,ion
tree girdling at Carrollton

Management, Fire Compact Schools Held

School bells rang early for Georgia Forestry Commission personnel la s ~ month. The first Southeastern Forest Fire Compact Commission Tratning Session was held at Clemson, S. C., and the Third Annual Administrative ~anage
ment Conference was held at the Center for Con-
tinuing Education in Athens. Members of the ten-state compact received
training on the Compact Fire Organization Manual, which tied in with the theme ''Training in Forest Fire Organization." The ten states in-
clude Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, ~ississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Curtis Barnes, Assistant Fire Cont.ol Chief of the Georgia Forestry Commission, presented lectures on the division and division boss and the record section. Sam Beichler, U. S. Forest

Service Region 8 Office, Atlanta, was the Compact co-ordinator.
All department heads and district foresters of the Georgia Forestry Commission were oriented on "How to Develop Your Thinking Ability" at the Management Conference. Commission Director Guyton DeLoach headed the group.
The program included such subjects as Problems in Oral Communications and Report Writing and Written Communications, Case Studies in Human Relations, Executive Reading and Personal Finance.
Frank L . Middleton of the University of Georgia was conference co-ordinator.
The conference was sponsored by the Georgia Forestry Commission and the University School of Forestry, Institute of Law and Government and the Center for Continuing Education.

Logging the foresters ...
MORE $$$ FOR TREE PLANTERS.....Georgians will
receive a 50 per cent bigger subsidy in 1959 from the Federal government for planting tre~s un der the conservation reserve program. Contracts will average about $12 per acre per year starting in '59, the Dept. of Agriculture announced. Georgians have taken 430,000 acres of cultivated land out of production and planted most of them in pines since 1956.

LANDOWNERS GET FREE HELP .....The past five years have seen a boom in the number of Southeastern landowners receiving free forestry services from pulp and paper industry foresters. The SPCA announced that 50,696 l andowners in 11 states received management assistance. This compares with 465 in 1948, the first year that assistance figures were kept . Industry now employs 1,025 foresters, compared to 265 a decade ago. Industry was responsible for planting more than one and a quarter billion seedlings in 1957.

Smokey showed up at Douglasville on July 4 to

bring the fire prevention message to Douglas Countyites. Ranger Loyd Mann and compan y constructed a colorful float to present their them e:

FIRST AID PAYS OFF ..... The benefits of last year's Georgia Forestry Commission first aid courses made themselves felt near No rman, Idaho, in July when Uni-

versity of Georgia forestry student George Thurmond of

Athens and a s tuden t from Texas saved a pair of motor-

ists. Thurmond, the brother-in-law of Assist. lOth Dis-

.trict Forester. Bill Schultz, s tudied first aid in Schult z'

class last year. While working this summer wi th the

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U. S. Forest Service, Thurmond and a buddy came upon a wrecked auto. An elderly lady was treated for severe

bleeding and a broken pelvis and leg. Her husband was

treated for shock and bruises.

MILLIO SEEDLINGS TO BE PLA TED...McDuffieWarren Ranger Wi lliam Muns says th at he expects the ~.kDuffie landowners to plant more than one million pine seedlings this year. The seedlings will be planted on some 1250 acre s, Ranger Muns said. The largest single order was for 90,000 pine seedlings.

Columbia County Ranger Lonnie Morris top, and lOth District Investigator Tom Shelton taught all phases of fo restry to 82 young lovelies at Girl Scout Camp Tanglewood near the Columbia unit. Girls from the Augusta area attended the outing .

"Keep Am.:!rica Green" FIRST DAY Of ISSUE
CONSERVATION

NEW STAMP ... Forest con servation will be honored October 27 with the issuing at Tucson, Ariz., of a new U. S. postage stamp at the annual meeting of the American Forestry Assn. The stamp will commemorate the 100th birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, a conservation pioneer, and will honor the private and public age ncies who have brought about thi s nation's forest conservation progress. The stamp will be yellow, brown and green. It will feature new growth of trees, harvesting of mature timber under scientific manage-: ment, home and shelter for wildlife and birds and protected watersheds.

Georgia
AUGUST, 1958

F.m ered as sec.:ond class matter at the Post Office, Macon, Georgia.

Everybody's Going Ape!
Wood utilization via the club-to-cranium route was the answer when early man found himself sharing a tree with a hairy cousin. Though clubs are no longer in vogue , wood utilization can ease the situation if you find fin ancial distress staring you in the face. Proper thinning and removal of inferior trees will increase your forest's productivity and keep you off the financial limb.

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