Georgia forestry, Vol. 3, no. 4 (Apr. 1950)

Georgia Forestry

APRIL

1950

Page Che

Georgia forestry

Profit 1 n Pine Trees

fFrom the Dawson News)

It is gratifying tonote that the planting of pine trees in Terrell Cbunty is on the increase, and that not only are the trees teing planted, but fanners are cui ti vating the areas in a systematic way.
There is no excuse for soil erosion or for waste lands which, with comparatively little work, might be turned to productive areas ..... .
The expansion program of the Georgia Forestry Commission during the past six months has extended organized forest fire protection to thirty-five new counties and increased the acreage of protected
land from 8,500,000 acres to 13.~00,000 acres.

There is no need to plant a pine tree or any other kind of tree and
expect it to flourish without care and certainly there is no need t~ plant pines with the hope of future returns and not care for them.

Already ~52,000 pine trees have

been planted in Terrell Cbunty with-

in recent months, and there are

sti 11 more orders to come in. As

pine so is

trees are assurance

planted in given that

Ga esoorugriac~

of prosperity is in store, for with

proper protection these trees,

plantedonland otherwise unsuitable fo ~ the gro_win j?: of other craps, wi ll crtng grattfytng returns in years

to come.

Burning

Our Dollars

(From the Bartow [Jerald)
Ranger Tom Poston reports that some 400 acres of timberland have teen destroyed by fire in Fartow County during the past few days in one of the worst outbreaks of such damage in several years. The iires were maliciously set, Mr. Foston believes, and seemed to break out in several places almost simultaneously.
It is a crime to set a forest fire and those who are found guilty should be punished to the full extent of the law. Purning over forest lands is like burning dollar bills, because that is exactly what is happening. It is burning the timber which makes our homes, our paper, and thousands of articles we use every day. It is burning the revenue from the acres which should go to the owner, who so carefully plants and tends his trees.
Over two-thirds of Fartow County land acreage is in timberland. It represents one of our most important resources. Its destruction is the same as destroying any other property by fire--as though some one deliberately set fire to your home.
Those found guilty of deliberately setting a forest fire should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Georgia Forestry

Vol. 3

APRIL, 1950

No. 4

A monthly bulletin published by the Georgia Forestry Commission, 435 State Capitol, Atlanta. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia, under the
act of August 24, 1912. Member, Georgia Press Association

April, 1950
Georgia Forestry Association

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Annual Meeting at Macon, Aprill4; Governor Talmadge to Addr~ss Group

Governor Herman Talmadge will head the list of speakers at the 26th annual meeting of the Georgia Forestry Association to be held at
the Hotel Dempsey, Macon, April 14.
fheme of the 1950 meeting will be the further development of Georgia's already great wood-using industries. More than 300 members and guests are expected to attend.
Governor Talmad~e's address will highlight the momine: :;;ession which will open with the call to order at
10:00 AM by the Association President Kirk W. Sutlive, Director of Public Relations, Union Fag and Paper Cbrporation, Savannah. ~ev. C. DeWitt Mathews, Pastor, Vtnevill Baptist Church, Macon, will offer theinvocation. John McElrath, President, Jeffreys-McElrath Company, Macon, will extend thewelcome to all present and R. H. Rush, President, Rush Lumber Company, Ha\\kinsville, will respond.
Other features of the morning session will be the president's address by Sutlive. a discussion of the planned Forest Survey of Georgia by James L. Cruickshank, Forest Economist, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, and a talk on "Chemistry and Trees" by ~arlin Pruner, Manager of the Southern District, DuPont Company.
Ernest Rogers, Atlanta Journal Columnist, will be the luncheon speaker. Marion J. Wise, Savannah, first vice-president of the Association, will preside over the luncheon session.
Pugh W. Dobbs, Atlanta, will handle the gavel at the afternoon session. Guyton DeLoach, State Forester and Director ot the Georgia Forestry Commission, will outline the record expansion in state for-

estry during thE past year under the newly-organized Cbmmtssion.
A special feature of the afternoon session will be a Tree Farm Forum with Channing CoPe, Farm Editor, Atlanta Constitution, acting as Chairman. jim McClellan, American Forest Products Industries Foreste1, Washington, l!. C., will explain t~e origin and purpose of Tree Farms. Some of the state's outstanding tree farmers will relate their experiences and accomplishments in Tree Farming, and will be presented Maste~ Tree Farm Awards.
Frank Heyward, Gaylord Cbntainer Corporation, will give an illustrated lecture on growth of pine plantations.
The Georgia Forestry Association has a membership of almost 300 individuals and organizations including landowners, forest operators, foresters, banks and financial institutions, newspapers, representatives of all classes of forest products industries, public utilities, railroads, and machinery and equipment enterorises.
Foremost among the Association's activities is the sponsorship of legislation directed toward the conservation and wise utilization of Georgia's greatest natural resource, her forests. Among successful projects carried out by the Association during the oast year was the sponsorshiP of legi station establishing the Georgia Forestry Corrrnission and expanding the fire protection activities of the Commission. The Georgia Forestry Association a-lso conducts the "Keep
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Ge orgia f or estry

The 35th annual meeting of the
Southern Pine Association, April
17-19 at the Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, will be featured by a
machinery and equipment exhibition a nd demonstr a tion. M~chinery manuf a cturers from all parts of the country nnd forest industries and forestry organizations from throughout the South will participate in the exhibitions and demonstrations. The exhibitions will serve to fix
attention on greater mechanization as a means of overcoming the industry's burden of increased manufacturing costs.

A record-breaking attendance is expected at the meeting, according to announcement by H. C. Berckes,. Secretary-M&nager of the Association, with the sessions due to be spirited and action packed. Among subjects to be considered are forestry legislation, research, conservation and reduction of manufacturing costs.
An industry-wide meeting of all manufacturers, sponsored by the Southern Pine Industry Committee, will coincide with the As.sociation meet.

Evans Retires from Forest Service

CharL es f . Evans

frank A. ALbert

Charles F. Evans, Assistant Regional Forester, Region 8 , U. S.
Forest Service, and for the past 23 years in charge of cooperative federal-state forestry programs in t ;e South, retired from active service on March 31. ~ is retirement marked the end of 38 years continuous service in the South and Northwest.
Evans came South in 1927 and organized the Cia rke-Mc~. ary cooperative work in fire control and reforestation. Since that time he has seen forest fire protection in the South grow from 37 million acres tomore than 100 million acres under protection today. Approximately

900,000 acres of private forest land have been planted, and cooperative reforestation work has grown to an annual production of about 200 million seedlings.
Evans has had a large part in helping to build the profession of forestry, anrl he is currently serv-
ing as president of the Society of American Foresters.
Frank A. Al~ert, at present Assistant Regional Forester in charge of the Division of Lands, succeeded Evans. Albert has had a wide range of experience in Forest
Service programs in all parts of the South, and is well known throughout the area.

ipril, 1950
"Protected Pines Provide" Is Theme of Pine Tree Festival April 27-28

The 1950 Emanuel Courty Pine Tree Festival, set for April 28 at Swainsboro, promises to be the biggest and most elaborate in history.
Keynoted by the powerful theme, Protected Pines Provide", this year's testival will serve to emphasize more th~n ever the fact that protected, well-managed pine forests nrovide the basis fot a well-roun.ded, self-sustaining community with a high standard of living.
Many thousands are expected to witness the Festival events which will be highlighted by a parade of scores of colorful floats, a gigantic, forestry pageant cast from the ranks of the schools of Emanuel County, several outstanding speakers, and ceremonies crowning the Festival Queen and her King.
Kirk Sutlive, Director of Public Relations, Union Pag and Paper Corporation, will be the principal

speaker at the Festival, according
to announcement by J. F. Mathis,
Jr., chairman of the Pine Tree Festival Committee. Sutlive is a top figure in the promotion of forest conservation and developrr.ent throughout Georgia and the South. H~ is pr~sident of the Georgia Forestry Association, andwas highly instrumental in conceiving and developing the Pine Tree Festival as
an annual affair. Sutlive's address is scheduled for the noon hour, immediately after the close of the
p&r<>de.
TPe true-to-life pageant is a new and unique feature of t~is year's Festival. The dramat1c, fast-moving spectacle will be centered around Pine Tree Farming and will demorstrate the benefits and values of forest protection and sound forest management. Mrs. Betty Jenkins, wife of Jack Jenkins,
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You're face-to-face with one of the attractive porcelain signs that mark each of Georgia's Tree farms. Wherever these signs appear, a certified Tree Farmer is practicing good fire protection and sound forest management on his woodland ar:reage. Ea.ch of these signs means that a landowner is receiving a sustained, increased income fro~ ihe harvesting of successive tim)rr crops, and that good fire Protection and management is "'paying-off' for some forest owner.
The 3igns, measuring two feet square, are awarded. each forest 01,mer 11Jhen his lands are designated as a TPee F'arm.
The G-eorgia Tree ft'arms System is sp~nsorcd jointly by the Georgia fo' or c; t r 'J Com"' i s s i o 'L , t he Geo r g i .'! .''orcc:try A_<;oc.iation, and the Sou:h
ern Fine As~o~iatio~.

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More than 60 0 citizensofLaurens and surrounding counties were present Ma r -:h 9, when the first Laurens County forest fire lookout tower was dedicated at a Forestry Field Day at Rentz, Georgia. All were trea ted to an outstanding demonstration and a satisfying Southern style barbecue lunch.
Ded ic~ t ed to r ed!tC tn g fo rest. fire l oss , L1!tr ens Count y ' s first toolumt to ~ r i s ch ristened in ceremonial st y lo by 'iss J r nc e f a rren, Girl Vi ce - P ~ es ide ~ t of th e D e xte~ ~-P.
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The dedication ceremonies and demonstration were planned and directed by the Laurens County Forest Protection Unit, the Laurens County Farm Bureau and the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service.

Frank Johnson served as master of ceremonies and President R. T. Gilder of the Laurens County Farm Bureau welcomed the group. County Agent D. D. Vickrey outlined the
purpose and value of the demonstra-
tion.

Guyton DeLoach, Director of the

Georgia Forestry Commission, wes the principal speaker. "The to"WI:!r

1

is a symbol of prosperity and

wealth", he told the group, but

emphasized that Laurens Coun~ians

will not see any amazing results ,

overnight. It will save thousands

of dollars, however, over a period

of years by p~otecting your valu-

able \\Oodlands", Deloach said.

Since the tower is located in

the naval stores belt and is sur-

rounded by vast timber crops from

which comes gum turpentine, it was

fitting that a bottle of turpentine '

be substituted for the trad1 tional

champagne when Miss Grace Warfen,

Girl Vice-president of the Dexter

4-P Club, christened the 100 foot

tower.

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Cecil Carroll, Dublin, Vicechainman of the Laurens County Forestry F<>ard, spoke at the dedication and introduced L. 0. Eeacham, 1 Jr., Rbckledge, Erantley New, Dublin, and Leon Keen, Cadwell, other attending members of the board. Chairman R. L. Hogan, Dudley, was unable to attend because of illness.

J. E. Phillips, Sixth District
Forester, Macon, directed the forest fire control exhibition. Laurens County Ranger Marshall Lord demonstrated methods of locating

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and dispatching crews to fires, fire fighting techniques, and how the jeep, equipped with plow, radio, tank and hand tools, is used in fire fighting. Walter Stone, Emanuel County Ranger, expla.ined the suppression unit, including a 3/4 ton Fo~d truck, John Deere crawler tractor, Ranger Pal plow and TiltBed trailer.
The forest tree planting demonstration was given by J. F. Spires, Forester, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah. M. E. Chapman Rochelle, demonstrated use of th~ Conservation tree planter.
The forest management demonstration w.as presented by C. D. Dyer, Extens~on Forester at Tifton, A. H. Anto_nit;. Cooperative management spec~al~st for the Georgia Forestry
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R. T. Gi lder, Pr es ident o ~ t t. P. Lau rens County .li'a r m S1t re av., er~} oy s th e b!lrbecue f en.s t his or!' ~.-: i r1 tion P rovi ded.

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LAURENS COUNTY fORESTRY BOARD. Together at the tou~r dedication

are jour 111e111bers of the Laurens County forestry Board, County forest

Ranl?er Marshall Lord, and District forester J . E. PhiLlips. from

left to 'T'ight, Lord, L. O. Beacham, Jr., Rocldedge, Brantley New,

Dublin, Leon Keen, Cadwell, Cecil Carroll, Dublin, and PhilliPs.

PangerO. L. Knott, Troup C'ounty, has secured the help of the LaGrange Civil Air Patrol squadron in renorting all forest fires sighted while on practice flights or routine patrol. The Troup County Protection Unit has furnished an FM radio to "the air patrol for installation in an L-4 type observation plane. Py use of this radio the CAP will be able to report irrmedi ately all fires sighted, guide the fire crews to the scene of the fire, and aid in law e~forcement work. Ranger Knott has extended his thanks to Captain Wm. A. Coker, Commander of the CAP group, for this valuable help.
Walker County Ranger Ralph McCurdy, together with 0. C. Purtz. Education Forester, nas distr1bu~ed 1 500 fire prevention circulars in his county. The circulars explain the purpose of the newly-form~d Walker Protection Unit and solic1t public supportin the prevention of fires. There has been a favorable response with numbers of 1 andoWle.rs and citizens visiting the un1t headquarters.
Ranger Walter N. Stone, Emanuel -Couhty, was recently named Citizen of the Week by the Swainsboro Forest Plade. The Flade says that '.:~ven thouRh the county is running up 1 ts 'IIIIOrst fire record in a decade, it would have been far worse yet had it not been for the constant battle on the part of D.Jb and his. firefighters. Fe has saved our county hundreds of times the cost of running his department, and a lot of the work he has done has been above ar.d beyond the call of duty."
Congratulations, Dub, on being Citizen of the Week.

Fanger M. W. Farr, Johnson County, has worked out a system to speed-up circulation of fire fig~ting ~9uip ment for cohtrol turn1ng. ~e 1s making fire fighting equipment available to everyone in the county by stationing back cans, rakes and flaps on all the highways leading away from Wrightsville. The equipment is placed at five central points around Wrightsville and is also available in his office at the A. A. A. Euilding for people near Wrightsville.
Farr has urged farmers in his county to "get this equipment when you plan to burn, and return it as soon as you have finished, so ii: will be available to the next man." ;e emphasizes, "It isbetter to have it and not need it than it is to need it and not have it."
Reuben W. Martin, Jr. was employed as ranger for ;.lciXJffie O>unty on February 1 to succeed Mr. John R. Pamil ton who resigned to accept the position of Associate Forester at the Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station. Mr. Martin's duties will include forest fire prevention and protection, educational and maintenance work. l'e received the PS Degree in Forestry from the University of Georgia in December, 1949 and has experience with pulpwood dealers in Georgia ;n practical forestrv wnr~-
Latest figures show that Georgia produced 74.8 percent of the total l'. S. s ti 11 output of Gum turpentine from April 1 through December 31, 1949. During this period, 221,880 barrels of turpentine were produced. In 1948, 217,660-barrels were produced with Georgia's production being 73.7 percent of the tntal.

April, 1950

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AT-FA Annual Meeting Set for Valdosta April 19

The fourteenth annual meeting of the American Turpentine Farmers Association COoperative will probably bring several thousand gum turpentine producers and their families to Valdosta, April 19.
Ole of the features of the annual meeting is the crowning of "Mi.ss Spirits of Qnn 1\.Jrpentine". Last year Miss Pat Atkins of Albany, sponsored by {udge Harley Langdale, won the tit e over eight other young ladies who represented the Association's directorship. The contestants will wear traditional pine needles costumes.

The COoperative has been working steadily for the past year to get the Secretary of Agriculture to change the USDA decision that on Ap ri 1 1, 195 0 lowered the slipPO rt prices of Oum Turpentine and Rosin from 80 to 60 percent of parity.
Georgia has five of the ten directors of the COoperative. They are, Judge Langdale, President of the Association, j. M. Gillis, Jr., A. V. Kennedy, R. M. Reynolds and John COok . Other Directors include Will Knabb And R. H. Gibson, Flor- , ida; W. L. Rhodes, South Carolina, , M. C. Stallworth, Jr., Alabama; an~ R. M. Newton, Mi ssippi.

Pictured above is the new headquarters bui !.:Zing of the Polk County
forest Protection Un it. The new structure, located jus t east of Cedartown on the Rockmart highway, includes a reception room, Ranger's office, and garaging and repair facilities for all vehicles. Polk County Ran;er Ja~e~ Carter, second fro left, and hi s assistants, have erected signs infront of the building urging pubLic cooperation infire prevention and welco in! aLl t:isi tors.

!"('SC~'rchers at Athens are obtainlnf some interesting results from t~d-pruning experiments that have tepn undE'rway in slash pine plantations there since April, 1947.
ThE' tre:ottnE'nt starts when trees ~re thrE'c feet high or more and E'Very year lateral tuds or tranches al-ove ?,, fcE't are removed from the JTain stem of small trees to prevent the formation of knots.
Definite conclusions cannot be dra~n at this early date, cut results of the tests seem to indicate:
"JOE BEAVER ..

( 1) During the first years after treatment bud-pruning does not retard diameter or height growth. (2) Fud-pruning costs less in terms of feet pruned per man-minute up to 10 feet of pruned hei!dlt than pruning by conventional methor:ls.
(3) The most econom1cal size tree for initial pruning is from three to five feet in height.
(4) A modified form ot bud-pruning seems suitable for southern pine.
(5) Fud-pruned trees are more resistant tc ice damage during the first year after pruning.
By Ed Nofziger

.Fonst :-:.t.>rvicc, U.S. Department of Ag:riculture
''Cit> fd~s ~hould learn how to act in the woods-where would their cities be without wood?"

.'oril, 1950

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LAURENS DEDICATION
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Commission, Statesboro, and A. G. Steedley, naval stores inspector from McRae.
Phillips, assisted ~y C. P. Jones, Assistant Sixth District Forester, also conducted the timber harvesting equipment demonstration.
Taking part in the demonstration of saws were Ed Knapp, Macon, using the McCllllock Power Saws; Robert L. Mosely, Macon, the Poulon, P.omelite and Timber Cat Saws; W. E. Roberts, Field Representative, Sandvick Saw and Tool Corporation, Clarkesville, the Sandvick Fow Saw; and C. A. Veley, Kut Kwick Tool .Corporation, Prunswick, showing the Cyclone and Kut Kwick Pulpwood Saws. The logging equipment demonstration included: logging with John Deere Fully and Cable; Joe PailEy, Etalock Machinery and Equipment Corporation, Macon, logging with Oliver Cletrac Tractor; and Ed Knapp, showing the Timber Tosser Log Loader.
The committee in charge of arrangements included R. T. Gilder, Marvin Green, Marshall Lord, Don Ashworth, James Farron and D. D. Vickrey.

GEORGIA FORESTRY ASSN
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Georgia Green'' program, and cooperates in sponsoring the Georgia Tre Farms System.
Present officers of the Association in Rddition to Sutlive, and Wise, are R. H. Rush, Hawkinsville, second vice-president, E. M. Lufburrow, Atlanta, Executive Secretary, and A. E. Patton, Atlanta, Treasurer.
Members serving on the Foard of Directors are: Wallace Adams, Glenwood; Albert Ernest, Savannah, James Fowler, Soperton; W. E. Dunham, Savannah; M. J. Wise, Savannah; J. L. Gillis, Jr., Soperton; M. H. Clark, Albany; E. T. Hudson, Ellijay; W. A. Know, Thomaston; Pugh [bl:;bs, Atlanta; N. R. 1-'ardin, Macon; Harley Langdale, Jr., Valdosta; and W. M. Oettmeir, Fargo.
If Mother Nature patches The leaves of trees and vines,
I'm sure she does her darning With the needles of the pines.
They are so long and slender And sometimes, in full view
They have their threads of cobwebs, And thimbles made of dew. ----(The Arkansas Ranger)

Merchandising and Mechanized Handling" was the theme of the Silver Anniversary Convention of the Lumber and Supply Dealers Cotmcil of Georgia, held April 3-5 in the General Oglethorpe Potel on Wilmington Island at Savannah.
The Convention featured one of the largest and most comprehensive materials handling shows and demonstrations ever staged by a Southern association. Tuesday afternoo~
mobile machinery demonstrations atforded many dealers their first opportunity to see evidence of labor savings effected by mechanized handling.

PINE TREE FESTIVAL
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president of the Emanuel County Farm Pureau, is in charge of the pageant and entertainment nrogram.
Members of the Pine Tree Festival Committee for 1950, are, in addition to Mathis, the chairman: Earl Varner, Emanuel County Farm Agent; L. F. Pradford; Roger Dekle, Woodruff Key, Jack Jenkins, and W. 0. Phillips. Among the organizations actively engaged in planning and directing the Festival are the Fmanuel County Farm Fureau, the Agricultural Extension Service, the rmanuel County For~st Protection Unit, various civic groups, and numerous forests products industries

Georgia Forestry

APRIL

1950

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Ga.