Georgia forestry, Vol. 3, no. 11 (Nov. 1950)

Georgia Forestry NOVEMBER 1950

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A Costly Menace Fire Prevention

(From the Cedartown Standard)
Forest fires, in the next few months, raging over valuable timber lands, will cause damage that may run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Last year, many thousands square miles of forest lands were
burned over and the presumption is
that the area devastated this season will be much larger, unless adequate care is taken to prevent the carelessness to which most of the fires are attributed.
Readers of The Cedartown Standard should realize that eighty percent of the forest fires which destroy so much valuable timber, are caused by the action of man-one-fifth of which is attributed to careless smokers.
The carelessness of American people in such matters is a source of great amazement to peoples of other lands. It takes an emergency such as the present one to make American citizens realize that conservation of natural resources should be the practice in this country.

(From the Mi LLedgevi ~ ~e Union-Recorder)
Monday wi 11 usher in Fire Prevention Week and throughout next week emphasis will be placed on the importance of fire prevention and the need for proper insurance protection.
During Fire Prevention Week we should also think about our woodlands, and how important it is to prevent fires in the forests of our country. All fires are man made and man can prevent them. Little careless acts, like emptying a pipe in dry grass and flipping a burning cigarette from a car window causes fires. Watch these little things, the big things won't happen.
In this issue of the paper, many merchants and lumber dealers are calling attention to the causes ot fire in special ads, and urging your cooperation. We invite your attention to these, and urge your cooperation with Therman Strickland, who is doing such an outstanding job in directing our county fire unit...
We can prevent fires, so let's do it.

Fire season begins again in Georgia (See story Page 2), andForest Protection Units are completing preparations to hold down the fire loss. Here Harold Osborne, Ware
County Forest Ranger, constructs a pre-suppression firebreak in some of the rich pinelands of south Georgia.

Georgia Forestry

Vol. III

NOVEMBER, 1950

r.b. 11

A monthly bulletin putlished by thE Georgia Forestry Commission, 4J~ State Capitol, Atlanta. Fntered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlantak Ga., under the act of August 24, 1~12. ~ember, Ceorgia
Pr~ss Association.



Kove11ber, 1950

Pa1e Two

Double Caution Urged to Prevent Fires;

Fire Crews Gird for Fire Season

With the advent of the most danger-

With these figures fresh in their

ous f i re season have come warnings minds, and fully aware of the danger

from all s ides stressing the need fo'r impending in the next few months,

redoubled efforts to prevent the forestry and forest industry leaders

thousands of wildfires that every throughout the state have come for-

year rake Georgia's woodlands. The ward to urge constant and complete

dry, windy months of the late fall cooperation of all persons in pre-

and winter always herald the beginn- venting fires, in aiding fire fight-

ing of the period when forest fires ing crews in fire suppression , and

are most frequent, burn faster and in protecting the state's woodlands

more fiercely, and are most diffi- for harvest.

cult to control

Governor Herman E. Talmadge has



Last winter Georgia experienced its worst forest fire season in ten years as record conditions of

calleq upon ''all Georgians to join
in the fight to cut down the great and needless waste resulting whe~ fires ravage the state's greatest

drought and high winds were recorded. natural resource, her forests.''

Disastrous fires made frequent frontpage headlines as 9,641 wildfires

''Forestry and forest products industries are a multi-million dollar

swept over more than 291,500 acres business in Georgia,'' the Governor

in protected counties alone and

destroyed many times that much timberland in the unprotected counties.

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Below, STAOkey Bear puts in a tiely llXlrning for fire prevention as he appears on ai l 'trucks in Georgia


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Webb Tatum has seen a revolution du.r ing his 25 years of service as Elbert County Agent. Tatum has seen an agricultural revolution in which King Cotton has moved over to share its throne with the pine tree and cattle. Tatum says ''Farmers are beginning to think a lot of trees.'' The tall Georgia pine is pushing cotton and cattle over, trying to make a three-seated throne.
Elbert was almost totally dependent upon cotton when Tatum came in 1924. There were only two registered Jersey bulls in the county and peo~le paid little or no attention to the pine tree growing near cotton fields. Many of the pines were destroyed when farmers cleared off new-ground or burned to kill boll weevils. Now farmers have found that they make a costly mistake in burning their woodlands to reduce the nunber of boll weevils. The timber destroyed in such fires is oftentimes worth much more than the best cotton crop that could be produced, and farmers cannot depend on this method to rid their lands of the weevils.
Since 1924 diversification of crops has become the practice, many conservation programs have developed
Smokey Says:

and fewer acres are being devoted to

cotton.

l'armers are real-

izing a regular yearly income from

livestock, and as the pine trees

grow, they provide steady money at

less labor costs.

Webb Tatum has seen an agricultural revolution in which the pine is be-
coming more and more important. Other counties throughout the state have undergone the same change as farmers realized that forests are truly Georgia's greatest natural resource.

New Georgia
Forest Industries
Many new forest products industries are finding Georgia a choice spot for locating their plants, and other old industries are continuing to expand.
The Berrien County Lumber Company is constructing a new plant in Nashville which will include a planing mill and concentration yards. The new lumber company will employ about 100 persons.
The Sparta \fanufacturing Corporation is changing from the manufacture of furniture to the production of plywood panels with veneers. The veneers will be shipped to furniture factories all over the nation, Nati~ pOpular lumber is used for the ''core'' of the plywood, while mahogany, oak, maple or other wood is cemented on the sides of the panels. Seventy-five to 100 men will be employed when the plant reaches full production.
F. F. Stanley and Sons, a Tennessee lumber firm, have announced plans to establish a plant in Milledgeville to utilize dogwood and persimmon lumber grown within a radius
of SO to 75 miles of the city. The
woodNill beusedinmaking shuttles and spindles for cotton mills.

Pine Festival

lfovember, 1950

Pap Jlbur

Emphasizes

Forest Industries
McRae's first Pine Festival September 29 was highlighted by the largest parade in the South Georgia town's history. The Festival honored Telfair County's largest enterprises - the forest industries. Telfair County is the world's third largest turpentine producing area and pine trees grow on 70 percent of its acreage.
The three-block parade began at the Court House in the afternoon and proceeded up Oak Street into Helena, ending at the McRae-Helena School campus. Mayors George Callihan, McRae, and Tom Allen, He lena, and Walter Dyal, Telfair County Commissioner, headed the group. A float carried kings and queens of the turpentine section from each classroom of the McRae-Helena School. Pretty majorettes in gay regalia led the Eastman and Hazlehurst High School bands. Cars and float~ represented most McRae and Helena business houses. Larry Torrance served as parade marshall and D. Q. Harris Jr., was master of ceremonies.
After the parade, the Festival moved to the McRae-Helena school for hayrides, barbecue dinner, bingo, cake walks, and a carnival midway in the basketball gymnasium.
Miss Alma Lee Wright was general director of the Festival, Mrs. Wade Nunn served as chairman of the parade committee, and Mrs. Eddie Cotter was publicity chairman. Ed M: Oliver and Eugene Greneker, of American Turpentine Farmers Association, Valdosta, were technical advisors.
Sponsors of the Festival were the McRae-Helena, P. T. A., the Peninsular-Lurton Company, the McRae Processing-SupplyCompany and the McRae Rotary and Lions clubs.
Plans are underway to make the Pine Festival an annual affair.

Four recently published bulletins will prove of help and interest to Georgia foresters and woodland owners.

''Working Trees for Naval Stores'', recentlv released by the

Georgia

Agricultural Extension

Service, is a 47-page booklet deal-

ing with many phases of the naval

stores operation. C. Dorsey Dyer,
Extension Forester, is the author of the publication.

A discussion of types of o.9.erat~on includes the percentage-work basis,

the cash-lease operation, the farm~r- type operation and the owrl:er-

operator types. The attractive

features in working trees for naval

stores production include_Producit;g

period or season, production stabi-

lity, markets, price of products,

and equipment.

Slash and longleaf pine, the two species of trees valuable for pro-

ducing naval stores in Georgia, are

illustrated and explained.

Soil quality, sapwood, tree
croWns, and temperature affect yields of gum. C~reful consideration must be given to tree selection. The size of the tree must be

considered and care must be given

in marking, cupping and installing the face. Working practices, meth-

ods of raising cups and woods equip-

ment needed are also of great importance.

Directions are given for cleaning

and painting cups and tins. The

use of acid in naval stores production is considered from the stand-

point of effect on timber, equip-

ment needed, bark chipping, appli-

cation, chipping schedules and

yields, season to be applied, and

raising cups on bark-chipped faces.

The booklet contains helpful

suggestions and explanations of

markets aru::! marketing of naval

stores products, processing plants,

methods of packaging, and uses of

turpentine and rosin.

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The publication not only consi-

ders the proper methods of conduc-

ting naval stores operations, but

covers planting pines for future

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Paae l-ive

Forestry competitions held a btg place in the eighth annual 4-H Club
Congress held October 10-13 in Atlanta. Fire protection, reforestation, good cutting and forest products were among the many subjects covered when the district winners vied with each other for cash awards and the coveted trip to Chicago to
enter t he national competitions. Directing the forestry demonstrations was C. Dorsey Dyer, Extension Forester, and serving as judges wer~

Herbert Carruth, District Forester , Coosa River Newsprint Company, James F. Spiers, Forester, Ce ntral of Georgia Railroad, and B. F. Grant, Professor, School of Forestry, Univers ity of Georgia.
Named as state winners in the forestry competitions and delegates to the national meeting were Hortense Bush, Baker County, and Lynn Ogden, Richmond County.

Hortense Bus.h, Baker Co1mty, gives the story of pine tree Canker Rust in the dE!!IIonstf"Cl tion that t<.On her a s"tate chaapionship in the IJ-H forestry c0111petitions.

No~bef', 1950
fo,-est,-y judges look onasE'I'Win Cow:J.f't, Nmanuel County, second f'YOTTI left , explains the technique of hand planting pine seedlings. Judges af'e, ff'OTTI l eft, B. f . G'Y~t, khool of l'of'estry, Unive,-si ty of Geo,-gia, J. f . SPie,-s, fof'es{e,-, Centml of Geo,-gta, ~ Be,-be,-t Ca,-ruth , Dist,-ict fo,-este,-, Coosa Rive,- Newsp,-int Company .

Ranger James Carter and the Polk County Forest "Protection Unit played an important part in the observation of Fire "Prevent ion Week in Polk County October 8-14. The Fire Prevention Committee of the Chamber of Conrnerce, the City Fire Department and the PolkCounty Forest Protection Unit, working together to plan the week-long observance of the occasion, urged every person in Cedartown and Polk County to keep fires out of homes, stores, plants and forests.
Highlight of the week was a special parade ll.fonday afternoon through Ceqartown business and residential sections with the Polk Protection Unit, City Fire Department, Bigh School Band, police cars, ambulances and other vehicles taking part.

Ranger Marshall Lord, Laurens Ceunty, recently held a day-long guided tour of his county to demonstrate what is being done in his county to protect and develop the woodlands Visited and studied during the da~ were the county's fire lookout tow~rs, Ranger headquarters, and other 1nst~l~a~ions. Clim~xing the day's fest1v1t1es was a f1re suppression demonstration in which detection location and fire suppression meth~ ods were shown. Included in the grotip making the tour were members of the Laurens County Forestry Board
G. '! Duke, County Agent, and Matt
Do~1ny, local representative of the Un1on Bag and Paper Corporation.
Final stop on the tour was for a stur;fy of a 16-year-old pine plantation.

Ranger Robert Bell, Macon County, received high praise for his recent exhibit at the Macon County Fair. The Macon County Fair Association wrote, 'We, the Macon County Fair Association, want to thank you and your Department for the splendid job that your Forest Ranger, Robert Bell, did in getting up and assembling the display at our Fair which was held September 25-30.
'Since we have had our Forest Fire Protection Unit 'here in our County, we can see a vast difference in the attitude that our citizens had previously taken, for now they all realize the importance of having such a program in the county. We have indeed been rendered a very fine service.''
Prompt, efficient fire- fighting efforts by Ranger N. E. Medford and his Cobb County fire crews recently prevented destruction of Aunt Fanny's Cabin, famous eating establishment in the Marietta-Atlanta area. Medford and his men were summoned when the local fire departments were unable to answer the call, and they succeeded in preventing the spread of fire from the barbecue kitchen to the main building.

J. C. Bowen, Terrell County Ranger, says, in his Thought for the Day: 'Protect -Conserve and Collect Remembe~, our forest provides jobs, recreation, pays taxes and creates taxable wealth.''
".f~"
"Lonnie's New Crop" is going abroad. The State Department has a~ked to circulate abroad about 350 prints of the film produced by the Southern Educational Film Production Service under the sponsorship of the Georgia Forestry Commission and the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association. Roy Graham of Soperton starred as Lonnie.
The film will show foreign audiences a typical activity for vocational agricultural students. The theme of the picture is tree planting in the South and describes how a young farmer makes unproductive land earn a profit growing trees.

Noveber, 1950

' Nurs.eries Start Shipping Seedlings

Landowners throughout Georgia wi 11 begin receiving shipments of forest tree seedlings from the Georgia Fore's try Conrnission 's three state nurseries around November 15. Official closing date for orders was October 20, but many late orders were received. Landowners who met the October 20 dateline will begin receiving their seedlings during the latter part of Noverrber, but late orders will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.
Total production for the 1950-51 planting season is expected to reach 32,785,700 seedlings. Of the total, Slash accounts for 26,173,695, Loblolly, 6;260,239, Longleaf, 185,650 and Black Locust amounts to 166,126.

Expected production from each nursery is as follows: Albany 13,935,937, Flowery Branch, 4,310,480 and Davisboro, 14,539,293.
Many months of Hme, endless work and much expense are involved in the production of each pine seedling, and the Commission expects to sell seedlings at less than the cost of production. Seedlings are inspected before they leave the nurseries to insure delivery of healthy seedlings to landowners. Landowners should take every precaution to insure proper planting of each seedling to qelp reforest the more than 2~ mi !lion acres of idle land in Georgia which must be planted if they are to become productive.

Pictured above is the Herty Nursery at Albany as preparations began to lift and ship the seedling crop.

Page Nine

Geo~gia 1o~est~y

"Proper Timber Harvesting'' is the theme of the Forestry Field IAiy and farm forestry short course scheduled for Abraham Paldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, on November 16. Several hundred woodland owners, pulpwood producers, lumbermen, loggers, naval stores operators, foresters, and forestry equipment manufacturers are expected to gather for the meeting which will l:e opened at 10:00 NA by Dean T. M. Cordell,
who wi11 conduct the sessions.
Highlighting dteday's events will be the keynote address byW. M. Oettmeir, president, Forest Farmers Association, Fargo. who will speak
on 'Profi-table Harvesting of Timber
Products".
Following will be discussions on harvesting of the principal forest products. H. J. Malsbei:ger, Forester and General Manager, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, Atlanta, will speak on harvesting of pulpwood. W. C. Hammerle, Forester, Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, will cover profitable
methods of cutting saw timber. Harley Langdale, Jr., Valdosta timber owner and commercial operator, will relate the proper methods of ~arvesting poles and piling, and George Willians, Forester, 1\.Jrpentine and Rosin Factors, Inc., Valdosta, will speak on profi~able methods of naval stores operations.
Qlyton Deloach, Director, Georgia Forestry Comndssion, will conclude
the morning's session with a discussion of the Commission's fire control activities.
The early afternoon's demonstrations will include methods of cutting with several types of hand and power 'IIOOds saws, log skidding techniques, mechanical andhand planting of forest seedlings, fundamentals of naval stores operations, andmethods of fire control in south and central
Georgia.
Concluding the day's progran will be field work in naval stores under

the direction of Ed Pbwers, Inspecto~. Naval Stores Conservation Progran, and harvesting operations for sawtimber, poles, piling, pulpwood, together with methods of tree poisoning. C. Dorsey Oyer, Extension Forester, will direct theharvesting and poisoning demonstrations.
A Management Conference for personnel of the Georgia Forestry Commission was held at Hard Labor Creek State Park, Rutledge, Tuesday, October 24 through Friday, October 27. District Foresters, Assistant District Foresters and District Rangers were in attendance.
Speakers and instructors for the meeting included Guyton DeLoach, Commission Director, L. C. Hart Jr., Assistant Director in charge of Management, H. E. Ruark, Assistant. Director in charge of Fire Control,
and J. H. Hill, Nursery Assistant.
Guest speakers included C. Dorsey Dyer, Extension Forester, and Walter Chapman, Assistant Extension Fores ter, Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, H. E. Filmer, Roger Huff, and H. M. Sears, Foresters of the U. S. Forest Service.
DeLoach opened the meeting by explaining ''How ForestManagement As A Service to Landowners Fits in with A Well-Rounded Forestry Program' . ''The State Management Program'' ''How to Better Our Program and Render More Service to Landowners and a discussion on estimating Form Class in standing timber were conducted by Hart.
0. D. Hall explained ''Soil ConservationProgram in State Organizations and How It Can Fit in with Our Work' '. Agricultural Extension in Georgia was discussed by Dyer, and Hill gave a report on seedling supply and demand, followed by a planting demonstration on the care and handling of seedlings.

November, 1950

FIRE PREVENTION URGED

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said ''and our woodlands provide jobs'and a good living for more than
120,000 of our people. To protect these jobs, and to insure the welfare of these people and all of us in the state, it is imperative that each man, woman and child d<;> their utmost to help cut down the f1re loss. Our great forest industries are dependent upon the growth and product ion of our woodlands.'' ''I am happy to be able to say'', the Governor continued, "that we are now better prepared to fight forest fires than ever before in the State's history. During the past two years we have doublerl the number of County Forest Protection Units and increased the protected acreage to an all-time high of 16,291,577 acres. But I want to emphasize the fact that the ultimate sucress of our protection program depends upon th~ c~o~erati~~ and aid of all the State s c1 tlzens.
State Forester Guyton DeLoach has stressed the importance of' 'constant attention on the part of all persons in preventing fires''. Paraphrasing the well-known adage, DeLoach stated ''that in forest fire control an ounce of prevention is worth fully a hundred pounds of cure: ''As always'', said DeLoach, ''our firefighting crews will be on twenty-
four hour round-the-clock duty, ready to :OOve in and fight fires

wnerever started in the protected counties. I'm glad to echo the Governor's words that we have built up our fire fighting organization and believe we're better prepared than ever to tackle the fire season that's upon us. However, let me urge
again ou~ tinal dependence on public cooperation for our greatest success in cutting down the tire loss''
Speaking for the Georgia Forestry Association, which represents much of the state's forest industry, Hugh W. Dobbs, Association president, has urged'' that everyone cooperate fully with the fire suppression personnel of the state and of industry to effect a great reduction in the fire loss from last year's record figura". Said Dobbs, "With carelessness and incendiarism still standing at the top as the causes of forest fires in Georgia, it's apparent that the prob !em is people, not fire. The fire will take care of itself, if only the people will be careful with the fire in and around the woods''. ''It is the sincere hope of the Forestry Association that everybody will cooperate to prevent wild forest fires and make more timber available for harvest and use by industry.''
Lastly, but far from least, Smokey, the Fire Preventing Bear, says, ''REMEMBER- 0 N L Y Y 0 U CAN PRE VENT F 0 R E S T F I R E S. ''

NEW BULLETINS PUBLISHED

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crops, fire prevention, controlled burning and a suntnary. of recommended naval stores practices.
''Markets for Forest Products in Central and North Georg.ia'' is. a publication of the Georgia Expe~l ment Station covering 102 count1es in Central and North Georgia.
Woodland owners will find information on the forest products for which markets exist, re~a~ive prices paid, general specifications under which forest products are purchased, and buyers in each
comty.
The Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Asheville, N. C. has

recently published ''Management of Natural Slash Pine Stands in the Flatwoods of SouthGeorgia and North Florida''. This 60-page illustrated booklet gives information on managing slash pine stands to harvest not only naval stores, but also pulpwood, sawtimber, fuel, poles and piling.
''1Q49 Pulpwood Production in the South'', has just been released by the U. S. Forest Service.
Illustrations show the situation in the South in 1949 from the stand.point of pulp mills drawing wood fr<">m the south, pulpwood production and pulpwood production by county.

Georgia Forestry
NOVEMBER 1950

Entered as aecond-claas ...uer at the Post Office, Atlanta, Ga.