R.I ./ -~' \ ' ,... t .. . I \ ~)r l t GEORGIA FORESTRY Oltaf4iltt/ the News Vol. 12 june , 1959 No.2 Published Quarterly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION Box 1183 Macon, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Director Members, Board of Commissioners: C. M. Jordan, Jr., Chairman Oscar S. Garrison Alamo John M. McElrath Homer Alexander Sessoms Macon Cogdell Must For Forests (From the Savannah Morning News) The timber and conservation commi ttee of the December term grand jury called attention to a law which should be strictly adhered to in the interest of protecting Georgia's important forestry resources. A recently adopted law makes it obligatory that anyone who plans to start a brush fire of any size in a field or wooded area notify ranger headquarters. If this is done before the fire is started, it gives the ranger an opportunity to set up certain safety measures whereby the fire can be kept under control. A potentially dangerous fire in Savannah in the American Cyanamid plant area would have been much more serious if fire fighters had not taken prompt action. In rural areas, of course, a rapidly spreading fire might not be noticed readily and assistance would not be immediately at hand. This means that extra precautions should be taken in rural areas and notifying the ranger of planned brush fires is one ru!e that should never be overlooked. Intelligently protected forest assets mean hundreds of millions of dollars in our state's total income each year. We must give our forests the maximum possible protection. Georgia Forestry is entered as second class matter at th e Post Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia Press Association. EDITO R Frank Craven ASSOCIATE EDITORS Bill Kellam Rip Fontaine John Curri e STAFF ARTIST Dan Voss DISTRICT OFFICES GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION DISTRICT 1- -Route 2, Statesboro DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 26, Camilla DI STRICT III- P. 0. Box 169, Americus OI STRICT.IV-P. 0. Box 333, Newn an DI STRICT V- P. 0. Box 328, McRae DISTRI CT VI - P. 0 . Box 50 5, Mille dge vill e DISTRICT VII- Route 1, Rome DisTRICT VIII-P. 0 . Box 1Hi0, Waycross DISTRI CT IJC-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville DISTRICT X-R< Itl' 'l, Washington Selective Tree-Cutting Booming (From the Macon Telegraph) The demand for aid in marking trees for selective cutting on privatelyowned small woodlots has grown so rapidly in Georgia that the Forestry Com- mission is finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with requests for help. The owners of small woodlots in our state are many. Around 75 percent of all timber in Georgia is owned by farmers who average around 100 acres in trees. For these the Commission lends the farmer the help of a trained forester who marks diseased, crooked or limby trees th at need to be removed, plus such smaller trees that should come out to stimulate growth of remaining trees. From the Commission's .\1acon headquarters comes the report that the de- mand for the services of the 20 management assistants in the districts is often delayed by several months. The demand is good news, though we regret that a landowner must wait for the marking service he needs. If the demand for aid in timber management continues to grow, the Commission c::tn be expected t o provide for it. Keep Jeff Davis County Green (From the J eff Davis County Ledger) You, as a citizen of Jeff Davis County, can do a great deal toward setting new records of forest fire prevention and suppression in Jeff Davis County. Whether you are a farmer, housewife, businessman or student, you can help make forestry in Jeff Davis a permanent industrial factor contributing greatly toward the economy of our county. Did you know that nearly 99 per cent of all forest fire s are caused by the carelessness of men, women and children? A lighted cigaret tossed heedlessly into dry brush can cause a major forest fire. People like you and me can prevent such catastrophes by making sure our fire is DEAD OUT. Our district forester told citizens of this di s trict, "Fore s t fires often cripple a county's economy and even the economy of the state.'' The damage they do is manifold. Jeff Davis County citizens have an abundant fo rest wealth which should serve to stimulate a growing concern and intere s t fo r the establishment and ope ration of a county forestry unit in Jeff Davi s . MAIL TO : SPECIES DATE SHIPPED GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMiSSION P.O. Box 1183 CON, GEORGIA (e) TOTAL ORDERED :UCK K UP AT NURSERY f EXPRESS The initial planting of a new Georgia Forestry Commission tree seedling nursery in Tattnall County this spring preluded the June 1 opening of the 1959-6 0 seedling ordering period. Order blanks and instruction s are now available to Georgians at Forestry Commission county units, 'district offices and state he adq uarter s and at county agents' and soil technicians ' offices. New Clifford Walker Nursery and five others will produce 250 million seedli ngs in 1959-60, Commi ssion Director Guyton DeLoach said. L ocated on Highway 178 near Reidsville State Prison and Page Memoria l Nursery, the nursery has been combined with its nearby sister facility to operate as Page-Walker Nursery under the direction of Mack Neal. J. D. John son is assistant superintendent. The new nursery has 100 acres of seed beds and replaces Horseshoe Bend Nursery at Glenwood, which is being converted into an orchard to produce superior pine seed under the direction of the Forestry Commission and Union Bag-Camp Paper Corpn. Walker Nursery's distinctive new administration building will serve as headquarters for the combined operation and will house all of Walker' s packing, holding, clerical, supply and maintenance facilities under one roof. Walker' s portable irrigation system, packing and grading equi pment and vehicle s were trans ferre d from Horseshoe Bend. Several c hang es ha ve been introdu ced into seedling orde rin g proc e dur e for 1959-60. RPfor es tatio~l Chief Sanford Darby announced. The ordering period will close October f, but ordPrs may be cancelled without penalty until January 1, I 960. Twenty five per cent of the purchase price tl'ill be deducted,to cover clerical costs, from orders cancelled after] anuary 1. During 1959-60, for a small charge the Commission will deliver orders of 75,000 trees or less to county forestry unit s or office s of cou~1ty agents or soil technicians in counties 111hich have n o fo res tr y units. Purchasers must pick up all orders larger than 75,000 treC's at the nursery where the trees are g rown. ASC pur chase o rde rs will b e acceptr>d as 1i'C'll as checks and money orders for the seedlings, Darhy said. Longle af, loblolly and slash pine uill cost four dollars per thousand and eastern red cC'dar and yPllow poplar ten dollars p e r thou sa nd. F: astern white pine will cost six instead of nine dollars per thousand bPcause tin Commission will grow it s own in 1959-60 . Sh ipment of loblolly and slash pine seedlings will start about November 15 . Sh ipm ent of the other species will start about a month later. Weather conditions, as in the past, may cause the schedule to vary, Darby pointed out. Darby estimated that Walker, Page and Morgan Nurseries should produce 60 million seedlings each; Herty and Davisboro Nurseries 30 million each; and Hightower 10 million seed ling s. \ I \... First citizen meets first beauty .. Gov. Ernest Vandiver, Lt. Gov. Garland Byrd and the larges t and loveliest group of beauty contestants in years featured the 52nd annual meeting of the Georgia Forestry Assoc i a t ion in Atlanta last month. The Carroll County entrant was named Miss Georgia for the third consecutive year. Miss Barry McDonald of Carrollton, a t all and beautiful brunette high school senior, was selec t ed over a field of 29 lovelies. M. ,i_s,s Priscilla Marshall of Early County was the runner-up in the judging based on poise, personality and beauty. Pierce County in the Eighth Forestry Dis trict took first place in the statewide general perfo rm a nc e rating. Richmond County in the lOth Distri ct was second. Other counties which led their distric ts were Tattnall, Worth, Crisp-Dooly, Pike-Spalding, Dodge, Washington, Whit fi eld and Floyd tied in the Seventh Di s trict, and f /?.bode s , ( rm[!,er, O<:.bolt, Jame s, I bo mas, Christian, S'tricklmul, Heaucbamfl Gwin ne tt . Th e Third Forestry Di s trict h as th e out standing statewide general perform- a nce r a ting. T he Seventh Di s trict was runn e r- up . E cho l s County h as the be st fire protecti on re c o rd. New GFA offic ers are J. Fra nk Alex- ander, T albotton , president; William Oettmeier, Fargo, first vic e pres ident; a nd A. E . Patton , Atlanta, treas urer. / r 1'-Jew dire cto rs are J. S. Gainer, C ov- ington , h y Duggan and R . H . White , Jr., l Atlanta ; Jim Gi llis , Jr., Soperton; and Sidney Cooper, Bru nswick. Governor Vandiver was certified as Georgi a ' s 500th tree farmer at the even- ing banquet. He declared that the "economy of the state is inextricably bound to fore s try" and told those pre- sent th at the "economy of the state is tied to your efforts in the next 20 or 30 years." Lt. Gov. By rd delivered the keynote addre ss a t th e afternoon business T aylor Schley Prise ilia Mars ha ll, Early Charlt on War e Linc oln t 1 l \;* l:_f ~. r ..-: r . I'" I . -l 't;' '\i l': ! . ... .. 1 _, 'dJui Richmoud session, which featured state , federal and industrial forestry leaders. The T aylor County tree farmer hai led pines as ''one of our biggest money crops.'' He emph asized the fu ture importance of Georgia's fore s ts and pointed out that good fore s try and governmen t both require ac tive partiCipation by ci tizens. The mee ting theme was "One Tree Gene ration Away.'' A tremendous amount of hard work brought the coun ty beau ty queens to the Atlanta fin a l s . E laborate beauty contest s entered by dozens of girls and attended by hundreds of spectators were held in theaters , auditoriums, gymna s ium s a nd p arks in Ware, Toombs, Lincoln, Schley, Taylor, Dodge, Wilkinson, Cha rlton, Richmond and Oglethorpe Counties. I} ilk in s on Co. runn e rs- up u bo limp e d in I / Dodge ..' ~ \ To ombs n g Fo re s ters and l andowners early this y ear observed Middl e Georgi a ' s first direct pine seeding by a mechanical plan ter. Southern Seed Co. conducted the demonstration with a Webster P l anter on a three-acre tract belonging to Frank P rior near Du blin. Four thousand bird and rodent repellent-treated s eed were planted per acre. The cost was five dollars per acre. A spring check of the planted area showed satisfactory seed germin ation wi th an average of one seedling every 36 inches. Som e fail spots of 25 to 30 feet were noted, however. Slash and l o blolly seed were planted by a fi re plow and planter pulled by a crawler tractor. A wheel attach ed to the planter pressed the seed into the ground. The plow cleared brush and exposed the soil. This reduced competition from grass and weeds for a y ear or two. Direct seeding is the practice of planting seed by hand seeder, airplane, hand broadcasting or mechanic a l planter on the sit e wh ere the tree will grow. Extensive research in this method of reforestation is underway in the South . An importa nt breakthrough in this field was the development of an effective repellent to protect the s eed on the groun d from hun gry rodents and birds. Pulp mills and other groups have already used direct seeding to reforest some areas for c ommercial purposes. Direct seeding eliminates the transplanting shock which nursery-grown pines undergo , but some of i ts di s advantages include the absence of an opportunity to grade and discard seedlings of an inferior quality and size before planting; the ye ar 's growth s tart a nurseryproduced seedling obt ai ns before transplanting ; less Seeder operates well in rough control of spa cing the trees during planting; the probable necessity of thinning the trees before they reach sal able size to give the remaining trees growing room; and dependence on plentiful rainfall to insure s urvival. Ruark, Sessoms Assume Duties Ruar k (t op), S esso ms USFS Starts New A new Research Coun cil director and a Forestry Commissioner assumed office this spring. H. Edward Ruark, former land acquisition manager of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Jacksonville, Fla., is the new research director. Alexander Sessoms, farmer and timber operator of Cogdell, is the new member of the Commission. Ruark will co-ordinate. and initiate forest research projects in Georgia conducted by state, federal and private agencies. His office will be in the headquarters building of the Forestry Commission at the Georgia Forestry Center near Macon until the new Southern Forest Fire Laboratory is completed at the Center. A graduate of the University of Georgia School of Forestry, Ruark served as a major in the infan try in the European theater, where he was awarded th e Bronze Star. Upon discharge, he was associated with the Haws-Hardin Lumber Co., and Carolina Foresters Inc., in Walterboro, S. C. In 1950, he joined the Georgia Forestry Commission as Fire Control chief, and served until February 1957 , when he joined Owens-Illinois. Sessoms follows in the footsteps of his late fa ther, Alex K. Sessoms, as a Forestry Commis sioner. The elder Mr. Sessoms was an associate of the late Dr. Charles Herty and did much to deve lop Georgia forestry . The new Commissioner, who has been associated with various phases of forestry all his life, manages his family's land holdings, farms, is president and treasurer of the Union Timber Corpn., Cogdell, is a director of the Empire Banking Co., Homerville, a member of the Clinch County In dustri al Board and has been c hairman of the Clinch County Board of Education for a number of years. He is a graduate of Georgi a Tech, is married and has two children. Forest Resources Survey A survey of Georgia forest re s ources, the first s ince 1951-5 3, will be s t a rt ed this s ummer by U. S. Forest Service personn el , with the additional backing of the Georgia F orestry Commission, Re s earch Council and Forestry Association. Th e two-year pro je ct wi ll cost more th a n $ 300,000 contributed by the four groups, a nd oth e r inte re s ted parties. Wh en completed in 196 1, i t wi ll prese nt a complete picture of Georgia forest resources. Field work will require 24 month s. The publi s hed report will be releas ed four month s la te r. Mack ay Bryan of th e South eastern Experime nt St ati on , U.S. Fores t Servic e, Asheville, N.C., :vill be in ch arge of the inventory, wh ich will be available to indu s try, industri a l de velopmen t commissions and the publi c. Th e inventory will enable a measurement of trends in la nd us e a nd timber by size, specie a nd types of ttmber on various sites to be compared with the 1953 forest s urvey. The inventory will be divided into five geographical units: coastal plain, one and two; southern_ pi ed mon t , three; nort hern piedmont, four, and mountains and foothills, five. The survey is designed to provide accurate, up-to-date information on Georgia forest resources to interested industries. Companies considering plant expansion are interested in up-to-date information on timber volume, stocking and rates of growth and cut within the drawing territory of the mill. Indus tries considering land acquisition will be interested in ownership, forest type, stocking and site quality statis tics provided by the survey. Survey statis tic s on trends in stand c ondition and specie s compo s ition may indica t e man age ment prog ra ms or cultural treatments th a t sh ould be sta rted on c ompany land s or encourag e d o n o ther owner s hi ps . Where the s urvey indi cate s a s trong tre nd toward th e invasion of pine la nds by low-grade h ardwood, prompt ac ti on mig ht be s tarted to re verse the tr end through measure s s uc h a s hardwood control fo llowed by planting. If an eventual short age of raw material is indicate d in an area, rotation geared to the greatest possible production or a longer rotation wi th a dive rs ified pro duction might be adopted. Industries which require high quality timber use special tabulations of volumes to locate quali ty timber. Conversely, industries using lowquality timber can locate mill sites and raw material by studying the survey. ~'I ' U"-- Battle Allove the tlotltlt /) ro;1- in for I uncb Prompt, all-out suppression and timely rain put the quietu s on a serious forest fire blowup situation in North west Georgia April 6-10. Georgia Forestry Commission emergency firefighters and equipment descended on red-hot Dade, Walker, Pickens and Chatooga Counties by ground and air where, despite the efforts of several interested firebugs, they had the situation well in hand by the time relief-bringing rain fell in the area on the night of April 9. Camp broke up the next morning. Most of the smoke and flame emanated from the rugged mountains of the three counties, where 22 fires burned 1,900 acres of woodlands in fo ur days. Commission firefighters took a page o ut of Civil War history as they refought the battle of Lookout Mtn., which stretches through Dade , Walker and Chatooga, but in clouds of smoke instead of mist. A dry ~arc:1 created the danger situation, which came to a head over the weekend of April 45. Plagued by repeated fires in the 'hot' counties, Seventh District Forester Julian Reeves sent out a call for help on Monday, April 6. His weary men were too few. Fire Control Chief] ames Turner contacted all other district foresters, who sent tractors, trucks, men and planes from rain-protected district offices and counties. Arson investigators were sent from other districts to take the heat off the firefighters by putting it on the persons setting the fires. The Forestry Commission's emergency communic ations and kitchen trailers, supply and maintenence equipment rolled into LaFayette from Macon Crew chief watches tractor tackle hill Mop-up on fire line late Tuesday night. Camp was set up at the old Walker County Home . Two-way radio and telephone service was soon functioning to speed the fire fight. The highlight of the North Georgia campaign was the debut against a goi ng fire of the Forestry Commission's TBM, which had been modified and equipped with tanks to drop fire retardant chemicals. Excellent results were obtained from monoammonium phosphate, a plant fertilizer which was mixed with water. Two hundred twenty-gallon drops knocked down and held running fires along a 200-foot front. U. S. Forest Service technicians mixed the s lurry and helped load the plane, which Bomber awaits fire-killing chemical operated out of the LaFayette airstrip, along with light air patrol planes from the First and Ninth Districts. The little monoplanes flew low over the flaming mountains to direct men and equipment through the difficult terrain. Many miles of firebre aks were raked by hand because the burning slopes were too steep or rocky for tractors to operate or their plows to turn up fur- rows. By Wednesday morning, approxi- ' mately 85 men were operating under a previously established organizational plan. By Thursday night, the fires had been reduced to one smouldering area on Lookout Mtn. With the Georgia emer- gency contained, the TBM was dis- patched by Forestry Commission Di- rector Guyton DeLoach to North Caro- lina, where forest fires were raging I alon" the Atlantic coast. The Tar Heels h a~ .:ts ked for help under the terms of the Southern States Forest Fire Com- pact Commission. /' ~ -- '-:~. ,i.. ...-: - General Snvices keeps 'em plouing ' Factors influencing growth and survival of one to threeyear-old slash and loblolly pine plantations, Georgia's most prevalent species, are being studied by the Forestry Commission Management Department to improve state pine production. Management Field Assistant John Hammond of Macon is surveying such growth and survival factors as rainfall, nursery source, time and method of planting, ground cover, place of planting, soil characteristics and percentage of Commission Studies Pine Growth,Survival fusiform rust and tip moth damage. The study is being carried out by geographic provinces to obtain uniformity in the influencing factors. Disease and insect resistance is also being checked. The survey has been completed in the Sandhill and Upper Coastal Plain Provinces, which include 21 counties along the upper and lower fall line between Columbus and Au- gusta. First observations indicate a heavy infestation of tip moth in the loblolly stands. Fusiform rust has been found in both species. Hammond conducts the survey in each county by check- ing some 14 tree plots, containing approximately 100 trees each. Samples are taken of type and depth of surface soil and distribution of pine species as to spacing and site. Field work can be conducted only during the trees' dormant period of October to March to prevent the height variation which growth produces. The sampling is restricted to old field plantings because cut-over, untilled plantations are not numerous enough at present to get a sound comparison between the two types of sites. Plantations unduly affected by fire, grazing and cul- tivation are not sampled. The survey is also being continued in the Piedmont Plateau and Middle and Lower Coastal Plain Provinces, where 70 per cent of Georgia's pine growth occurs. Second- ary growth areas which will be surveyed are the Cumber- land and ~fountain and Intermountain Plateau and the Valley lc r and Ridge Provinces. The U. S. Forest Service is a joint sponsor of the s tudy. Georgia's 1959 @ BOY'S FORESTRY CAMP " l ~~~~~~ ~~ !(, /[;~ ... . .. lt i-_ 0)(.==}=::::::~ --.... Approximately 200 white and colored Future Farmers ,; a nd New Farmers of America traded their books for bilt- -more sticks this month. The 13th annual F FA Boys Forestry Camp, for Middle and South Georgia boys, was held at Kolomoki State Park near Blakely , June 15-20. The first colored NF A Boys Forestry Camp was con- ducted at Camp John Hope near Ft. Valley, June 1-5. Roth camps were sponsored by six mills of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Assn. and conductec by the Georgia Forestry Commission and Vocational Agricul- ture Division of the State Department of Education. The young foresters studied fire control, insects and diseases, harvesting and marketing, mensuration, refor- estation, law enforcement and thinning. Cash prizes were awarded top scores on the three lads at each an exam covering their camp week who made the in the woods. ~ \ \~ 0,~ \ :'\ Certificates were awarded all who passed the test. \' Extensive recreation, including swimming, softb all, \\\ horseshoe pitching and fishing, featured each camp. \ A highlight of the FFA camp was a tour of International '\ \\ /~ Paper Company's experimental forest near Bainbridge, ~ Ga. Frank Craven, Georgia Forestry Commi ssion Informa- tion and Education Chief, directed both camps. Staff members were provided by the sponsoring agencies. Representing the Forestry Commission are David Crook, John Stokes , Charles Place, Jr. , Al Jacobs, Jim Hill, Bill Schult z a nd John Dickinson, assistant district for- Blakely, esters, Tom Hankins on and Sam Thacker, assistant management chiefs, Bob Gore, chief Investigator, John Currie, information and education assistant; and Bill JUNE Berry , Morgan Nursery. Tom Leetch, Gair Woodlands; Don Sonnen, Georgia Kraft; Art Collins, U.S. Forest Service; Jim Malsberger, International Paper Co.; Jim Colson, St. Mary's Paper Co.; Bill Murray, Georgia Extension Service; Ed Fore- man and Lamar Merck, Union Bag-Camp Paper Co.; and Ed Kreis, Dept. of Education. SPCA Dedicates 19 Pilot Forests Fire Losses Soar In '59 Georgia forest fire losses through April we re run nin g 45 per cent a head of 1958 , according to Georgia Forestry Commission fire report s. "Georgians must definitely exercise more care in the handling of outdoor fire ," Fores try Commis sion Director Guyton DeLoach warned. "Trash fires should be carefully tended and field-clearing fi res should be set on ly under safe conditions. Our forestry units a re glad to furnis h safe burning i nfo rm a.; tion. "Our f9re s ts are worth more than ever, for the value of standing timber is increas ing. The construction of new pulp mills and the expansion of others i n Georg i a e mph as i zes thi s. '' DeLoach a lso point ed out that the acclerated reforestation program pushed by th e sta t e a nd in d u s try in the past few years has fi ll ed Georgia fi elds an9 for e s t s wi th a lmos t a billion young tre e s-all still small enough to be high l y s u sceptible to seri ou s d amage or d e struction by fire. F o ur mo nth fir e losses in the 146 counties unde r organ ized fire pro tec tio n are 4 1, 109 ac res, co mpared t o 28, 360 a cre s in 1958. There were 4,375 fores t fi res th ro ugh April 30, co mp ared to 3, 488 in the same period of 1958. To t al losses for 1958 to t a ll ed only 49,3 16 acres. Several new or unusual fac t ors h a ve contribute d to the 1959 losses, Com- mission fire control officials pointed out. The introduction of aerial fire patrol by highly-trained Commission pilots in four forestry districts encom- passing 56 counties resulted in the report i ng o f more fire s th a n fir e towers alone could locate previously. Improved aerial detection in four other districts boosted their fire totals. Surprisi ngly, heavy rains in many areas rendered fir e s uppre ssion more difficult instead of easing the problem. Boggy terra in pre ve nted tra c tors from getting close enough to fires to plow fire break s which would have held the blazes to small acreage. Tractors frequen tly bogged down in wet are as and fire s burned more ac reage while the tractors were being freed . Stormy weather brought more winds than usual this spring, which caused fire s to spre ad quickly and burn more intensely. A wet March also delayed farmers' fi eld preparation effo rt s, Con seq u e ntl y, they burned off manv fields withi n a s hort period in Ma rch and April wi th the result that forestry un its frequently found themselves with more w ild fires than they could handle at one time. Fire s uppression uni t s we re o ft e n sunt"" l fro"1 adjac-ent counties, which gave fires longer to burn be fo re they could hl ,ontrol l. Nine teen timber tracts, typical of the areas in which they're located, were dedicated as ''Pilot Forests" on Georgia Pulp and Pape r Day th is spring by s t ate fo restry leaders. Sponsored by the Southern Pulp- wood Conse rvat ion Assn. in 12 Southern s ta tes, the "Pilot Forest s" will .serve as demonstration areas t o s h ow s mall landowners how to i mprove fores try production and encourage them to develop th e economic potential of their forest s . The need for improved yi e ld s in Georgia, where seven out o f 10 woodland acres belong to the s mall landowner, is empha sized by pulp production figures rele a sed by the SPCA. Georgia forest s h av e a potential pulpwood yield of one and one-half cords per acre per year, compared to a present output of four-tenths of a cord. The "Pilot Forest" program, accordi ng to state chairman Kirk Sutlive, Union Bag-Camp Paper Corpn., Savannah, should help eliminate thi s de fi ci t by showing landowners how to perform scientific harvesting, control undesirable species of trees, establi s h fire control, plant seedlings and institute any other needed practices. This work will be don e by pulp mill foresters on the "Pilo t Fo rests," which will serve as living example s of good forest prac tic e s. Any income derived fr om the "F orest s " will go to th e ir o wn e r s . Records on labor a nd e quipment expens e and us e will be kept on each tract and will be avail a bl e for s tudy in pl anning forest development programs for oth er l a ndowne rs. Ge org i a ' s pilo t fo res t s, wh ich are th e mos t num erou s in t he So ut h, are located in Bartow, Charlton, Coffee, Eff i ngham, Emanuel, Fulton, Gwinne t t, Je ffe rson, Lowndes, Mi t chell, Monroe, Morgan, St ewart, Sumter , Talbo t , Toombs, Warren, Wayne and Wo rt h Count ies. Forestry ,c ~ ., Gets Forestry beauty queens filled the fourth floor of DavisonPaxon Co. at the recent weeklong Salute to the South sponsored by the Atlanta department store. Attending a special fashion show and meet-thepublic event were three 1958 queens-Miss Wylene Cowart, Carrollton , Miss Keep Georgia Green, Miss Rosamond Bogle, Cuthbert, Miss Plywood, and Miss Patsy Edenfield, Swainsboro, Miss Pine Tree, and Miss Gum Spirits of Turpentine for 1959, Miss Flo Ann Milton of MacClenny, Fla. The girls met shoppers one morning in a special display are a which included a Georgia forest products exhibit erected by Information and Education Davison's Sal-ute personnel of the Georgia For- estry Commission. Davison's also devoted a street window to a forestry exhibit. Hundreds of Georgia and some out of state young- sters were signed up as ] unior Forest Rangers by Forestry Commission rangers from the Fulton, North Fulton, Douglas, Newton-Rockdale and Clayton County Units, who manned the inside exhibit's information booth. lllilY.:~' O?.;I -- ~ ~ \y1." , . ~' Window display Forest products exhihit 1 H Savvmillers Told Hovv To Get In The Chips Craven sums up school Smart sawmillers no longer let the chips fall where they may. They ship the once-valuel~ss residue to the nearest pulpmill. Some 75 North Georgia mill operators learned this and other revenue tips at a recent timber utilization conference at Trenton. More efficient use of pine timber for sawlogs and pulp chips was the subject of the school, taught by government and industrial foresters and manufacturers including sponsors Rufus Page, U. S. Forest Service and Georgia Forestry Commission wood technologist, Thomas Ramke and John Lehman , TVA, and H. 0. Baxter, Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, A feature of the school was a film on a new wood saw which produces chips instead of sawdust . The saw, invented by J. T. Griffin of Valdosta, is now being tested at the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis. The value of wood residue was emphasized by Ernest Clevenger of Corly Mfg. Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., who pointed out that approximately 300 Southern sawmills produced some 24 million dollars worth of residue in 1958. The use of debarking equipment was recommended for all mills. Profit ri s es with timber quality. Seven rnch tree diameter inside the bark was termed the minimum profitable sawmill size. Baxter led a panel discussion on wood chip specifications and marketing possibilities which included A. L. Dy er , Trenton ; D. M. Dyer, Hiwassee L and Co., Calhoun; Robert Nelson , Rome Kraft, Rome; A. A. Ringland, Jackson Industries, Birmingham; and Gus Jacobson, Soderham Machine & Mfg., Talladega, Ala. Frank Craven, Forestry Commission information and education chief, summarized the conference. A tour of debarking, chipping and milling operations at the Dyer Lumber Co. concluded the day. Nursery Soil Improvement Study Underway Additives which will enable pine seedlings to be grown each year in the same soil without loss of quality are being sought at two Georgia Forestry Commission tree nurseries . . A five-year study is underway at PageWalker and Morgan Nurseries to discover if annual additions to nursery soil of organic matter and fertilizer can replace the present soil building method of rotating cover and seedling crops . Discovery of a satisfactory soil-building combination of sawdust, pine bark, manure and/ or several ty pes of fertilizer would mean that the entire acreage of each Commission nursery could be used for seedling production each year if necessary instead of planting portion s in cover crops to replenish the soil nutrients depleted by previous seedling crops. Dr. Jack May of the University of Georg ia School of Forestry developed the study and is technical adviser while nursery superintendants Mack Neal and Donald Jones are supervising the actual research operations. Five-acre tracts of slash pine planted 40 seedlings to the squ are foot comprise the area used for the study at each nursery . Slas h is being used because more of it than any other pine species is grown by the F orestry Commission. The five-acre tracts are divided into plots which are planted in varying yearly rotation with slash pine-alternate slash and cover crops, two years of slash followed by one year of cover crop, three years of slash and one of cover. Cover crops are soybeans and cowpeas, which are plowed back into the soil to enrich it. Plots have also been set aside for the continuous growth of slash pine seedling s , using only varying additions of the organic matter and fertilizer as soil replenishers. Seedling size, color and root and top development will be taken each year to check their quality. Soil tests will be made to determine the nutritional content of the soil. Their results will indicate the amounts and types of additives needed to restore the soil to satisfactory fertility . Log!Jifl!/the tores,r~s TWO MORE JOIN UP .... Houston and Randolph County Commissioners voted this spring to jo.in the forest protect.ion program of the Georgia Forestry Commission. Forestry headquarters, f.ire towers , personnel and equ.ipment will go .into action July 1 .in both counties. Georgia now has 148 counties and 21,230,120 acres of woodlands under the fire protection and supervision of .its state foresters. FOREIGN INDUSTRY .... was the theme of the annual Georgia Chapter of the SAFUniversity of Georgia Forestry Alumni meeting .in Savannah June ll-12. Forestry in Germany, India, Czechoslovakia and Canada was discussed, respectively, by E. V. Brender and J.D. Strange, USFS; Barry Malac, Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.; and Dick Dyer, Bowaters Paper Co. REVISED EDITION .... The second edition of the "Directory of Wood Using Industries in Georgia" is now avail able from the Forest Utilization Service, Box 1183, Macon. Authored by Rufus Page and Joseph Saucier, the new edition features lists of state pulp mills and saw mills which use debarkers and chippers. TOP 'DOGS.... A team of University of Georgia forestry school students won the field and classroom championship of the Southern Forestry Schools Conclave for the second straight year from a field of 10 other schools. The outing, held at Camp Grant Walker near Alexandria, La., was sponsored by Louisiana State University, wh.ich t.ied with Florida for second. FORESTERS TURN LITERARY....Two new Georgia Forest Research Council publications appeared th.is spring : "Forest Genetics," by Dr. Mervyn Reines and J. T. Greene, a progress report for 1956-5 7; and "Forest Soils and Silviculture in Georgia," by Dr. Laurence C. Walker and Henry F. Perkins. The publications are available from the Georgia Forest Research Council , Box 1183, Macon, or th e University of Georgia School of Forestry. FORESTRY AND PEOPLE .. ..is the theme of the 59th meeting of the Society of American Foresters at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel, San Francisco, November 15-18. Nine technical sessions including 60 papers on all phases of forestry and related subjects such as wildlife, recreation, watershed and range management, will be presented. SAFEST IN GEORGIA .... The Owens-Illinois Glass Co. pulpmill in Valdosta won an award for safe operati on .in 1958 at the recent 16th annual meeting of the Southern Pulp and Paper Safety Assn. in Macon. NURSERY CONFERENCE .... Tree seedling growers from throughout the Southeast attended a week-long school in Athens recently and s tudied nur sery operation from employee counseling to micro-organisms in the soil. Federal, state and private foresters, scientists, representatives of .industry and the professors all appeared on the program. v '~~ : \ 1 1 ' 1 , Smokey u1as teed off at woods burners at the Augusta Masters Golf Tournament parade at :1ugusta this spring. Tenth District and Richmond County personnel constructed the biggest and most e laborate float in Forestry Commission history for the gala Augusta et1ent. -~ ,..,.-./ ~ ~----~--- .. f ~ ,. - - - ~.L_.- This South (;eorgia FF.\ member uas applywg so much clbou grease at the FF.\ Forestry Field nay at 1/omerrille tbat be had to don a guard to keep the e lboll' from flying off. .\tkinson County lligh uon the day's euents, ll1ith host Clinch County tbe runnerufJ. Other entrants uere high schools from Charlton, l.anier and ll'ar e Counties and Tifton. ... Geo.rg1a li;lfl,ll~l$,11rll711 ! . JUNE, 1959 t-.ntered as second class mann al the Post Office, Macon , Georgia. l;' I; .~~ '~ ,. , ,. , You'll Get The Point ... J ":1 ..... of a ~are fully plann~d and executed forest management program just like the French kiights did at Agincourt way back when the British citizens' army mowed down the heavily. armored horsemen with bows and arrows of stout English wood. Mow down invading cull trees and grow more pines and you'll score a bullseye which wil; tneari prosper-ity for you and your state.