Georgia forestry, Vol. 2, no. 5 (May 1949)

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G~orgia Forestry

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MAY 1949

Tiaber Protective Orpnlzation December 31, 1948
D County Protection Unita December 31, 1948
Units signed Between Jan. 1 and May 14, 1949
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Georgia fores

WOODLAND YIELDS (fro. th~ Gr~ensboro B~rala Journal)
The average acre of Georgia woodland produces an average of five dollars per year for the owner, but our forest lands are producing less than one half their capacity. Why?? Mainll because of uncontrolled forest ires. To even a casual observer in Greene County it is evident that our pine forest are being removed faster than the~ are growing. The loss caused by fire: so the experts tell us, being the difference between growth and cutting.
What is the solution to the problem many are asking? The State-Wide Fire Ptotectiin Act passed by the General Asse111bly and signed by Governor Hennan Talmadge in February, 1949, is the answer. This act can provide Greene COunty,if we will accept it, with the means of protecting our timber resources and cause the woods to produce at maximum capacity.
The new program will require the county to provide only 33-1/3 per cent of the cost for the forest fire protection, the State fayin~ the remainder. The State a so, 1n addition to paying 66-2/3 per cent of the protection cost, w1ll purchase and erect all needed lookout towers in a county.
The funds authorized are not sufficient to give protection to the entire state under the plan. There have been quotas set up for the number of counties to come in each Congressional District. When the quota is used up the other counties will be left out, until a later date when more funds are available.
Greene COunty has this great orportunity to get something bad y needed for a long time at less than 1/3 actual cost. If we will act quickly and get our county in before the money is allotted to other counties .
Talk it over with your County Commissioners and get Greene County a forest fire protection unit by this summer; no county needs one more than Greene.

GEORGIA'S TimE NURSERIES
ARE PLANTING PIDSPERI1Y
(From The Atlanta Journal)
It is good to know that Georgians are becoming increasingly aware of the value of forest lands. The demand for seedlings has increased so that in the past three years the state's tree nursery production has been mounted 800 per cent; but production still isn't up to demand. During the past fiscal year the state's three nurseries shipped 32, 500,000 seedlings (mostly pine species) in answer to requests for a total of more than SO,OOO:,ooo.
We can thank foresters, soil conservationists, teachers of agriculture and the more thoughtful forest products industries for this interest in planting as well as cutting trees. Forests and woodlots may be farmed forever, with judicial cutting yielding steady profits, but they can't be mined. Trees that are cut must be replaced and nature alone can't keep up wi'th too many sawmills. In Georgia, we have more than our share of eroded land, and we owe it to reckless cutting of timber, lack of fire protection(now happily being remedied) and careless farming habits. You can borrow from nature, but you .can't rob her without being repaid in poverty.
Nearly 66 per cent of Georgia is forested, exclusive of the Okefenokee refuge area, and much of our wealth stems from forest products. It behooves us to plan as well as cut and to spare no effort in afforesting waste lands. We are told that only the surface of forest industries has been scratched in this country. When these industries truly come into their own, Georgia, which has the climate as well as the land for growing trees rapidlf, may well become one of the nation s wealthiest states.

Georgia Forestry

Vol.2

MAY 1949

No. 5

A monthly bulletin published by the Georgia Forestry Commission, 435 State Capitol, Atranta, Ga., as a
public service to farmers, other
landowners, and timber industries.

interea as second-cLass ~atter AP~l 15 19~8, at the Post Office, Atlanta, Ga. under the act of August 2~, 1912.

for Nay, 191J9

New Band Mill
Now Operating
One of the largest sawmills to be installed in North Georgia in many years is now in full operation near Ellijay.
Erected at a cost of more than
$100,000 by the Gennett Lumber COm-
pany, of Ashville, N. C., the plant is cutting more than 30,000 feet per day. A new six-foot band mill is operated by steam. Double boilers were installed.
The mill was built for the de-

velopement of approximately 33,000 acres of timber purchased from the Shippen Pardwood Lumber Company, Pacon-Shippen heirs, C.C. Woody and others. The timber is located in the mountains of North Georgia, just south of the North Carolina line,in the lower end of the Appalachian Mountains. In addition to the timber on the 33,000 acres,the company has timber coming from the Nantahala, Chattahoochee and Cherokee National Forest land, all of which is sawed on the Ellijay mill.
About two million reet of lumber are now on stocks and several thousand feet have been shipped already. The usual species of hardwoods are all included in the production, and red oak, poplar, basswood, white oak
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Ellijay's new band mill is pictured below, almost dwarfed by the Pile on Logs containing more than a million board feet. Phis photo mas made before the mill began operations. !he Logs are so Large a worker in the top is almost obscure.
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More Counties Join

Georgia ?orest-r

Fire Control Program

Another seyen counties joined Georgia's expanded forest fire control program during the first two weeks of this month, A. R. Shirley, director of the State Forestry Commission, reports.

'This is a total of 13 counties that have signed agreements to establish organized protection units since the new expansion program was announced about six weeks ago, ' Mr. Shirley said. 'The new units comprise a forest area of more than two million acres.

The state forester also pointed out that negotiations in several other counties are almost finished.

State funds are available to cover two-thirds of the cost of organized protection in counties under a system to go into effect July 1. Formerly counties were re-
quired to bear 60 per cent of the costs.

Counties signing agreements this

month to join the expanded program,

and their forest acreages, follow:

C~uoglhqeurittyt,,

156 379 100,016;

DGroedegnee, ~120767~,284880;;

M1t ch ell, 148.~, 476iMonroe, :.~:03, t77,

and 11x>mas, 19t, 39 .

The first "new counties to par-

ticipate in the program,and their

forest acreages, are: Candler,

92758,86360~; 107,722,

Douglas 87 393 Effingham

Lauren;, and Polk,

2J1B3b2,73990M. cDuffie;

Mr. Shirley suggested that citizens and officials in non-protected c?unties desiring organized forest f1re control for their localities contact the Forestry Co~ssion as prom~tly as possible. He said the CommlSSlon desires to acquire and put into operation all needed towers, equipment,and communication facilities as rapidly as pOssible a fte r July 1 in order that all new units may be operating efficiently for the fall hre season.

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Ranger Harry Sweat and members of the Treutlen County Protection Unit have had the scare of old abandoned wells several times recently while fighting woods fires at night w~th R~nger Sweat almost stepping r1ght 1nto one on two occas1ons. 'There are a number of these old wells over the county, ' he reports, 'and we will be glad to assist in spotting and covering up those in the forest areas when there is sufficient rain to eliminate the dang~ of fires.'
In Bulloch County, Ranger J. W. Roberts is sponsoring a contest for Future Farmers. Already FFA-ers in five cha~ters there have set upwards of 22,000 seedlings. The contest will place emphasis on thinning, pruning and other phases of forestry work as well as planting. Mr. Roberts' plans call for each boy entering the contest to accompany the crew of a fire-fighting truck one day.

. R.anger H. D. Pillue, of the

W1lk1nson attributes

County Protection a recent bad fire

iUnnhiit ~

territory to careless fishermen.

Ranger Billue urges fishermen to

always be sure their campfires are

out before leaving and to be extra

careful when smoking in the woods.

His reminder: 'A fire started by

careless dropping of a match or

cigarette can burn just as badly

and do just as much damage as one

started intentionally.'

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'Parcel loading', a process in which lumber is loaded in steelbound bundles on flatcars, was recently used experimentally by the Tarver Smith Lumber Company, of Haddock, Ga., for a special shipment to a firm in Indiana.
Designed to materially lower costs of handling, the new process is reported to be gaining favor with lumbermen.
Receiving an order for a 'parcel loaded' car, Tarver Smith, head of the Haddock firm, called on the Atllanta office of the Brainard Steel Company, an experienced steel banding company, for assistance.
E. J. Finkey, district sales
manaeer for Brainard, described the HaddOck operation as follows:

each side, and the car was ready to roll.
Rapid and simplified unloading is the main feature of the system, it is pointed out, for on arrival at the destina~ion, hoists, cranes, or 'fork trucks' can unload the packages in a matter of minutes.
Commenting on the use of the steel strapping system of shipping, F. E. Houck, sales manager from Brainard's main office in Warren, Ohio, said:
'This type loading has been in use for some time for a variety of products. Eut it is in the last year that buyers have begun to speoify this type of loading. It vastly simplifies the handling by the receiver, and we believe it will become more and more popular.'

'As the lumber came out of the planer, the 1 x 4 stock was stacked in neat bundles on the flat car, approximately 2,500 feet to the bundle. Steel strapping was then bound around the bundles, and fastened with a cri!ll> steel.
'Sixteen of the bundles, comprising 38,000 feet of lumber, were stacked on the car, bound securely toRether, stakes were fastened on

NEW FIRM OPENS
The Progressive Lumber Company, a new firm dealing in boxes, crate~ shooks, lumber and plys:>od, recently began operations in East Point, Ga., announces E. E. 'Jack' Dill, owner and manager. Mr. Dill formerly operated the Capitol Lunber Company in Atlanta. JlUs firm has been dissolved and Mr. Dill is concentrating his business interests in East Point.

Steel-bound stacks of ltaber are ready for shiP.ent via flatcar frO'II Haddock, Ca.

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Georgia forest
Pid""'e StMif
Mechaniz

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Seedling Production
Labor-saving and time-saving e~uipment are important factors in t~e large-scale tree nursery program of the Georgia Forestry Com mission.
On these pages are photographs showing how mechanization has kept the cost of your seedlings down while everyth1ng else has gone up.
The bed shaper in the upper left hand corner was designed and built locally to fit special conditions. It operates off the powerlift on a Ford tractor and is highly maneuverable. It was designed especially to make wide alleys to facilitate the use of portable irrigation.
Directly underneath the bed shaper is the seeder. It is made by A nationally known manufacturer of farm implements. Pu1lt to operate on the tractor ~owerlift,the planter shown can be turned in the length of the tractor, making a return trtp on the adjacent bed possible. This planter or seeder is, designed to plant in a 2'' or 3' band and still allow room for any necessary cultivation. This means that by spreading out over a wider area more seed can be planted to me 100 feet and better utilization can be made of the land area available. At least twice as many plantable seedlings can be grown on a given area.
The picture to the right of the bed shaper shows a common tractor spreader being used as a straw or mulch spreader. This machine has more than paid for itself in one season. The cost of strawing was redu-ced from $28. 43 per acre to $24.58 per acre and the entire cost of the machine was written off the first year. With proper care and maintenance the spreader should last at least 10 years.
The spraying shown in the picture is for the control of grass and weeds. It eliminates practically all hand weeding. There are some weeds that cannot be killed by spraying, making some hand labor necessary.

Georgia 'orestr

By ElJGENE GREN:EXnl
Editor, AT-FA Journal
A charming young Georgian now reigns over the piney woods of
Dixie as Miss Spirits of Gum Tur-
pentine. She is lovely Miss Pat Atkins, an Albany lass, who was selected at the recent Annual meeting of the American Turpentine Farmers Association at Valdosta.

M...i ss Atkins was sponsored in the beauty contest by Judge Harley Langdale, president of the Associa-
tion. She won out over eight other young ladies who represented the
Association's directorship. The
girls were dressed in traditional pine needles costunes.

The annual meeting--the 13th

one--was attended by several

thousand gum turpentine producers

and their families. At the regular

business session they heard Geor-

gia's Governor Herman Talmadge

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explain the state wide forest fire bill that was passed this year by

the legislature.

In his annual report , Judge
Langdale stressed the importance of producers supporting the Association's national advertising pro-
gram in general publications, trade ma~azines and newspaper supplements.

''We must never quit or slacken off of telling the world about the merits of our products, gum turpentine and rosin, 'Judge Langdale declared.

Georgia members of the Association voted to petition the next legislature to substitute GUM lURPENT~ STArE on future automobile tags in place of PEACH STATE which has been on Georgia's tags for
years.

Judge Langdale, as well as other directors, was reelected by the membership. Another director was added in Georgia, giving this state five instead of four. The board now consists of Judge Langdale, J. M. Gillis, Jr., A. V. Kennedy, R. M.
Reynolds and John Cook, of Georgia.

Niss Spirits of Gua turpentine is Pat Atkins Zet t, of Albany.

" Hay, 19lJ9

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Boys Will Attend

Suininer Forestry Cainps

The Georgia Forestry Commiss~on's 1949 Forestry Camp for Boys w1ll be held July 18-23 at the Laur~ Walker State Park with approximately 75 youths attending.

Sponsored by the Commission the camp is financed by four Geo'rgia members of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association. These
mills.~re: Union Bag & Paper Cor-
poration, Savannah; Frunswick Pulp and Paper Company,Frunswick; Macon Kraft Company, Macon , and Southern Paperboard, Savannah.

Last year boys from North Georgia attended a camp at Hard Labor Creek State Park. This year campers will attend from South Georgia counties.

. An annual affair,the camp is deSlgned to give recognition to boys who have shown interest in forestry, and to further acquaint them with' how to handle the problems of fire control, reforestation, growing forest products, and harvesting and marketing forest products.

. _Meals, lodging and other facilltles at the camp are free to the ca~pers. ~e only cost to the boys be1~g the1r transportation from the1r homes to Waycross and return.

District Foresters W. P. McComb

Hulignh~WithAelrlienngtown,illM. sEu.peNrvixiosn~

and the

selec~1on of campers, with one c~

er ~e1n~ ch?sen from each county in

the1r d1str1ct. In choosin~ campers

t~e foresters will work closely

w~th rangers and recommendations

Wlll be made by county school

superi_nt.endents, county agents, SCS

techn1c1ans, and vocational agri-

:ultural teachers.

In addition to Commiss1on person-

lT~l, th.e camp staff will include

1m Sp1ers, of the Central of

!eorgia Railroad; Howard Do:yal, of

)OU~he~n Pulpwpod Conservat1on As-

I~OteCnlsaitloonn

,

and Dorsey Service.

Dyer '

of

the

A pre-camp get together of staff

members is scheduled at the camp site for June 27 to map finak plans for the trAining program.
A week-long forestry camp will be conducted for 4-H Club Poys by the Georgia Extension Service at Laura Walker Park duri ng the first week in June .
The Southern Pulpwood COnservation Association will hold its summer field meetin~ June 7 and 8 at Jackson, Miss., w1tfi E.J. Gayner III, vice-president and general manager of the Frunswick Pulp & Paper ~any, and president of the Association, presiding.
The m!eting.will open Tuesday , June 7,wlth a d1nner at the Heidelburg Hotel, headquarters for the meeting.
The evening program will consist of a panel discussion of the conservation work conducted by dealers and members of the Association in the states of Alabama and Mississippi and portions of Florida and Louisana. Also a brief report of the Association's activ1ties throughout the twelve southern states will be made by President Gayner and H. J. Malsberger, the Association's forester.
The meeting will continue Wednesday with an inspection of pulpwood cuttings made in Jackson, as well as types of hardwood control on large forest holdings . A barbecue luncheon will be served at Roosevelt State Park near Morton, Miss., a1 the concluding activity.
The meeting is open to all persons interested in forestry.

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Part of the crowd that attended Swainsboro's 19~9 Pine Tree Festiva~ watch one of the prize-~nning fLoats, above. The new Queen, Miss Betty Jean West, smiLes beLow after receiving her crown.

dJ.eUW4L s~eUiui
~t!Af.Uie Rain
Even though spring rains interrupted parts of Emanuel County's Fourth Annual Pine Tree Festival, the 1949 tribute to forestry was acclaimed by thousands as the best on record.
Crowds of eight to ten thousand persons witnessed a mile-long parade of 57 colorful floats, a highlight of the events. Each of the colorful floats vividly reminded the onlookers of the importance of the pine tree crop. Oak Park School won the top, float prize with a mobile exh1bit featuring giant~ hand-made pine cones and dollar marks.
Betty Jean West, attractive 16year-old high school senior at the Emanuel County Institute, Graynnnt, received the title of 'Pine Tree Queen'. Rupert Turner, of Swainsboro, was crowned her king.
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~='EST IVAL
(Continued From Page 9) Dillard Lassiter, of Washington , D. C., head of the Farm Home Administration, addressed the group following a welcome to visitors delivered by Swainsboro's mayor, Ralph Smith. A. R. Shirley, director of the Georgia Forestry Commission also spoke. The festivities began Afril 28 and were concluded the fo lowing day. A forestry demonstration,twice postponed because of rain, was rescheduled for Thursday, May 26.
COMMISSION FILLS THREE VACANCIES
Appointments to three key positions in the Forestry Commission have been announced by State Forester A. R. Shirley. They include M. E. Nixon as District Forester at Waycross; Richard E. Davis, Assistant Educational Forester, and Fred P. Amsler, Assistant District Forest! a at Washington.
Mr. Davis is a newcomer to the Comrrdssion while Mr. Amsler served as Ranger for the Wheeler County Protection Unit prior to his transfer, and Mr. Nixon was connected witn the Commission in 1941~42 as Ranger for Glynn County. All three are ex-Navy men.
A native of Athens, Mr. Nixon received his forestry degree in 1935 from the University of Georgia. In addition to his ranger service in Georgia, he was connected with the U. S. Forest Service in South Caroline from 1935 to 1941 and until recently held the position of logging superintendent with the Tidewater Plywood Company, Brunswick.
He saw three years' Navy duty, holding the rank of lieutenant. He is married and has t\10 sons.
Mr. Davis,who joined the Commission on April l, graduated from North Carolina State and holds a ~aster's Degree from the Duke School of Forestry. Jn addition he recently completed some special journalism courses at Emory Unive rsity. His orevious forestry ex-

Page Ten perience includes positions with a wood preservation firm .
An ex-Navy lieutenant , he served as gunnery and damage control division officer aboard ship during the war.
Mr. Amsler joined the Commission in September, 1948. A native of Gainesville, he is a gradua~ of the University of Georgia School of Forestry. He was discharged from the Navy in 1946, holding the rank of Ehsign.
DIRECTOR NAMED
S.H. Swint, of Augusta, has been elected a director of the Georgia-
Pacific Plywood & Lumber Company,
announces Owen R. Cheatham, president.
In addition lo being president and a director of the Graniteville Corrpany, Mr. Swint is a director of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad,
Citizens & Southern National Pank
System.
NEW BANDMILL.
fContinu ed From Page 2) make up a large part of the output.
Thad Clory supervised the erection of the mill and is now super intendent of the operation.
The Company has bui It up a modern sawmill town for housing its workmen the houses all being well con -.tr'ucted permareot residences . Everything in connection with the mill has been laid off and built for a long operation, as it will take the company from 10 to 15 years to develop the timber. The mill is equipped to cut all grades and thicknesses of lumber, and all soft hardVIOods are dipped to preVent strain.
Logging operations are carried on by 20 or more, logging_ contractors now working about 250 men. They have five tractors equipped with angledozers and winches , togdher with all other kinds of Jogging equipment. They have a backlog of logs at the mill , running around one million feet all the time.

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1949

IN THIS ISSUE

New Mill Operating . . . . Page 2

Fire Cbntrol Progress. . .

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Mechanized Seedling ProdJctiCXl 5,6

J!oys Camp

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