Georgia forestry, Vol. 3, no. 9 (Sept. 1950)

Georgia Forestry
SEPTEMBER 1950

State Has Made Long Stride

In Conserving Forests
(fRM 11l An.I/ITA J(XJ!IIAL}

It is hi1hly si1nificant and heartening news that nearly 16,000,000
acrt;.t of Georgia's forest lands are now -under fire rrotection. This bespeaks wonderfu progress in safe~rding our woodland wealth against 1ts 1110st destructive enemy. Such protection once applied to only 37 of 159 counties and scarcely 26 per cent of the state's privately owned forests. Now it ia fWlcti oning in 86 counties and covers a total of 15,981,434 acres, or rouahly twothirds of the state's timbered area.

These facts from a current report

by the Georgia Forestry Coamiasion

attest a wide -akening to the im-

portance of our fores t resources.

We are realizing that trees are a

mainstay of our economic stren1th,

a prime contributor to our present

and. future prosperity. We are lear"-

ing that they are a major crop which,

with d newed

ue c and

amreaa1ec

an b ''a

e perennially reperu8nent source

of wealth, a perD8Dent provider of

employment for labor, a permanent

producer of profits for investors, a

permanent payer of taxes to the state

and local co.amit ies. ' ' Beyond

these values they are indispensable

to flood control, to the conserva-

tion of soil and watel' sup ply, and

hence to agriculture, industry and

the entire structure of civilized

living.

To let so vltal an asset be destroy-

ed by fire or wasted through want of

goodmanatement ia the costliest kind

of folly. It ia a true sayin& that a

tree can make a million matches, but

a match can kill a mill ion trees.

By the same token, prevention and

control of forest fires ia the sound-

est sort of investment .......... .

...

The

present system should be extended until every count~ is co-QPerat!~

and the state's entire 25,000,000

acres of forest- a vast treasure-

are adequately covered.

But stoppin1 fire ia the least we

can afford to do in the way of pre-

serving and uPbuildin1 our woodland

resources. 1lley now produce less

than half their full potential. Good
mgrerafenoaar1tee1sm{teiannttc11roenascesaelnepdcortiouvbfeiletst,~hueatnitrdionau&tl:pathunetd,

sane t me ensure a perpetual yield.

As we were about to close this~

ment there arrived a copy of the fuly

issue of the national magaz ne,

American Forests, carrying an artie le

b;r Georgia's Otarles Elliott, tit led

' Te....ork in State Forestry.
. . . .. . . . . . lir. Elliott s con-

cluding words on the state's pro-

wen gram of provin&. why it pays to

grow trees are

worth ponderinl:

''Belonging to the Georgia Forestry Association and lending a hand to better forest practices in the communities where they serve are bankers, edt tors and busineaiiiii8R. Thev all al(ree on one point. Ihere is no 11ealth
except the soil ana what the soil produces. Trees are a r- natural resource, and as r - and finis.~ed products, have contributed 1110re more wealth to the state over a lon1er period of time than any other crop. ''

Georgia Forestry
Vol. III SEPTDIBER, 1950 lfo. 9
A mon~hly bulletin putlished by thE Georg1a Forestry Commission, 43~ State Capitol, Atlanta. Fntered as second-class matter at the Post
Office, Atlanta Ga., under the act of August 24, 1912. Member, Ceorgia
Press Association.

Page Two
Sunency Youth Wins Georqia FFA Forestry Award

Rooney Tillman of Surrency eel

lected a $100 check for witming the



annual -state-wide Futur~ Farmera of America Forestry Award. Three

other Future Farmers were rewarded

for outstanding fore s try wo r k dur

ing the State FFA Convention at the

State FFA Camp near Covington,

July 31. Harold Allen, Pine Grove,

runner-up, won $20, Henry Blood

worth, Perry, third place winner,

-got"$15, and Robert .Clements.Comer,

fourth place, received $10.

Tillman's project included tur

pentining, planting s~ edlinga,

,

building firebreaks and thinnina undesirable trees. The ApPli"l

County sixteen-year-old put 1n lona

hours after school and on Saturdaya working on h1s forestry' proJect~

Three years ago he started mar~lnc

13 acres of woodland for 'sel""Ctlve.

cutting , helped cut 10,000 feet oi

h.l!'ber and 10 units of pulpwood.

Last; year he built over eight mil"

of firebreaks to protect 80 acrea

Below, FFA forestry winner Rooney

Tillman, Surrency, right, gets aa.e

pointers on firebreaK construction

from R. E. Harrison, left, Applinl

' County vocational lricultura1

teacher.

-,

Xbo"e, Rooney Tillman, Surrency, FFA fo re try winn~ cv t s a new streak one of the turpentine faces on his prizewinning project.

of timber, sold 20,000 feet of ltaber and 25 units of pulpwood, -rked the trees to be cut and
helped cut pulpwood.

Tillman planted most of his 3,400
pine see. dlings in areas where he hed removed undesirable trees. Be is chipping 3, 000 boxes for tur pentine using an acid process to pt lar'ger gum yields and he expects to produce 75 .barre,ls before
,1\&the end of the season. He is work this part of his project on a 8hare bas1s, and wi -ll receive half
.the profits.

Allen did the same type of work as



Tillms.n but on a smaller scale Be protected five acres by fire

(O:;..,til1'"1 m Pa(e IIJJ

Page Three

Geo~gia fo~est~y

4-H Forestry

Winners Named

Th" six boy and girl District winn,\rs in 4-J.I Forestry Project
Achievement Meetings have been
announced by the Georgia Agricultural F~tension Service. The win-
ning boy and girl from each of the
six Extension nistricts will compete at the State 4-H Club Congress
to be held in Atlanta in October.

The boy and girl winning this contest will represent Georgia at the National 4-B Club Congress to be held in Chicago in December.

A total ;,f 53 contestants entered

the six Project Achievement Meet-

ings this year, the largest number

of contestants ever to enter, and

a somewhat larger number of entries

than for any other demonstration

contpst.

District winners and their dem-

onstration subjects are: Northeast

Georgia District-Lynn Odgerl'(boy),

Richmond County, 'Farm Woodland

\1anagement''; "Jarth'l Corry (girl),

Green County, 1 1 Tred Identifica

tion. '' North Georgia J)istrict

-Jack Billey (boy), Gordon County,

''Fire Protection in the Farm

Woods''; Bernice Williams (girl),

Catoosa County, ''Identification

and L'se of Catoosa County Trees.''

Northwest Georgia District-Richard

Darden (boy), Troupe County,

'Planting Forest Tree Seedlin_"s 1 ';

Voncei lle Salter (girl), Upson

County, 'The Care and Planting of

Pine Seedlings.'' Southw,..,t Geor-

gia District - Billy \lac Shivera

(boy), Clay County, 'Prevenhila,

and Controlling Forest Fires'';

Hortense ''Contro

Bush lling

(

gir 1 Pine

), Bake Canker

r

Coun Rust.

tr1

South Central District - Eugene

Johnson (boy), lowndes Count~,

'Preventing and Control!...

F~rest Fires''; Joy Lewis (girl),

Thomas County, ''Soil Conservatl

Through Better Forestry Practices .

Southeast Georgia District -Erwin

Coward (boy), 'The Planting

Em and

anuel Prot

e

cCtioounntoyr1

Pine For Screven

es C

ts''; ount

Ja y,

n

e

Cochran ( 'Killing

gWi rele)a1

Trees withAmmate. ''

StatL' wu1ners last year were Ferguson Cowan, \1i tchell County, and Jeanette Holcomb, GreeneCounty.

The-" tentative 1QS1 Naval Stores Conservation Program was presented to the naval stores producers' committee meeting with representatives of the U. S. Forest Service and the Production and Marketing AdministrAtion 0n Tlly 13 in Atlanta.
Producers wishing to participate in this incentive payment program must meet general requirements in effect for the last four years. Their applications for payment must be submitted by January 14, 1952.
Recommended practices and payments arP hriPflv as follows: ~ Two_cents per fa!=e payment on nine 1nch d1ameter cupp1ng. No cups hung on trees less than nine inchPs. one cup on trees less than 14 inches.
2. Nine inch cupping faces installed in 1947 or later earn one h;ollf cent.
3. Ten inch diameter cupping earns three ~nd a half cPnt<; for working faces Installed for tlw first time during 1951 season. No cups hung on trees less than ten inches; one cup on trees less than 14 inches.
4. Ten inch faces installed in 1950 earn two cents.
5. Four and a half cepts poid on 11 inch working faces ~tatted during 1951 season. No faces installed on trees less than 11 inches.
6. Payment of two and a half cents
CA!vf'E~S AT RECENT CORG, A EbYS FoR
ESTRY ()M> CHEO< TR: E GRJWTH ,RATES OUR ~
'NG INSTRUCT.: ON SESS. ON ON TH' ~N l NG.
RoOo rEUN.EN, (CENTER, w.;TH lNCF-
MENT oO~ER), CbNSERVAT10N FORESTER;
UNION bAG & F~t~ GoKrORAToON, INSTRUCTS
THE GRJUP.

Paae Jlbur

AT-FA Chemists Prepare

New Rosin Standards

ment standards for rosin, the plastic

Woody Allen and Rene Bernard, Jr., two young Valdosta c;:hemists, ha~e

standards were pronounced to be identical with the government stand-

succeeded in prepar1ng new ros1n ards in color composition and com-

color standards from plastic. The parison , within accepted tolerances.

new plastic standards will be used in grading rosin by color by Georgia's
b.ig naval stores industry.

The new color standards, made in the
form of solid cubes of plastic mounted in metal sleeves, are insoluble,

Bernard and Allen have developed several other produ~ts in the naval

unme 1table and unbreakable. Tht;!Y are individually made and tested 1n

stores field; The two chemists are order to insure proper color and

connected with the American Turpen- light transmission. This method of

tine Farmers Association which will manufacture and individual colorime-



distribute the new plastic standards. Standards were for~rly made of

tric testin~ is a c~mplicated ope~a tion requinng constderable techntc-

glass in Austria but since World al skill and equipment.

War II have been unobtainable. Gov-

The new color standards have been

erment standards have not been

subjected to the most severe tests

available in sufficient numbers to and were found to be immune to break-

meet the needs of all the dealers and age, deterioriation or loss of trans-

consumers of rosin. The new plastic parency. The necessary color s in

standards will be more economical the new rosin standards have been

and wi 11 be avai Jable to naval stores found co lor-fast uncle r even the most

men in larger quanti ties than the prolonged exposure to direct sunli~ht.

old standards.

The plastic standards are super1or

The new standards have met require- to ordinary samples made of rosin

ments of the Naval Stores Inspection because they can be dropped onto



Service, USD\, and have surpassed the old ~lass standards in some re

hard surfaces without breaking or cracking.

spects













PwE. RWF.ECATllNeEnW.

ROSIN STANDARDS . . ~T-~~ chemist s . R. L.
examine new plastJc roSin color s t anda rds

Bernhard,
th ey have

left, ~nd
p re pffl rl

Paae l-ive

Geortia forestry



Fifty-five Georgia youths, representing counties throughout north Georgia, enjoyed a week of forestry, food and 'fun at the 1950 Georgia Boys Forestry Camp held July 31-August 5 t Franklin Roosevelt State Park near Chipley.
Sponsors for thJ.s year s Ca!p were the Maccn Kraft C'oopany, Macon, t :nicn P.ag and Pn;>er C'.orporation, Savannah, and Southern Paperroa rd C'CJll>any, ~.avannah , and !'lrynswick f\Jlp and Paper O:xtpor>y BrunswJ.ck . 'Uw carrp v.'Ss cOnducteii b:v the renrgia H,rPstry Cnnnus!'ion
The campers were selected from their home counties through competitive forestry projects and contests in fire protection, thinning, marketing, and reforestation, and on the basis of a demonstrated desire to learn more about woodland protection nd management.

1HE I..EGEND OF SKI<EY BEAR . Harry Ro. .oll, Artistw!llustrator, U. S . Forest Service entertain's campers with a chalk talk on fire
prevention.

Regular instruction sessions were held each day with the list of subjects including fire protection, reforestatio~. thinninll. mensuration,

marketing, tree identification, and
harvesting. Emphasis was placed on learning by doing, with ':!qu ipment
being provided for the boys to gain
field experience in fore try techniques.

~ Richard Darden, Troup County, re -
ceived a casting rod as top-scorer on the comprehensive exam given all campers at the conclusion of the
week. The exam covered all subjects studied during the instruction sessions. Other winners included H. L. Campbell , Jr. , Carroll County; Ed Lindsey, Polk County; and Claude
.-Connell, Columbia County.

Instructors and speakers at the
camp included: Howard J. Doyle, Area Forester, Southern Pulpwood
Conservation Association; J. F. Spiers, Forester, Central of Georgia
, Railroad; Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Coomission; R. D. Helmken , Conservation Forester,



(fb1tii'1J.J(d en. Pare (01

~! IDEWTIFICATIOW with James C. Turner nlht Foregrour:ad,_Distri~t . Fore:ster, Georg i~ Forestry Con.,uss.Ion, g.Iv.ln the pointers.

BO~S GET EXPERIE1/CE IN M.4aiiNE PLANTING SEEOCINGS. J . F.
Sp1 e rs, se c ond from left, -FoJ ster, Central of Georgia l?a i ! road, gives the instructi ..ns .

WfNNAHS! High :!tcorers Oft forestry exam display their prizes. Left to right,H. L. Campbell. Jr., Carroll Coun ty, Rip Darden, TroupCount1 . First place winn_er, Claude Connell, Columbia County, lnd Ed Lmdsey, Polk County , Howard Doy l e, righ t , A.rea f l' rster, SPCA , made th e awards.

.E.ARUJlJNQ AlflJ IMWITING PULP.tOOD with Howacd Doyle tnstructing.

.Pa1e Seven.

Polk County Ranger James Carter received high praises from the Cedartown Daily Standard recently. The Standard wrote, '"Several days ago the Daily Standard carried a story on the results of the Polk County Forest Protection Unit in its first ten months of operation. Figures and facts showed that there were definitely not as many fires and not as big a fire loss since the program was initiated here
''Ranger James Carter has done a splendid job and he is planning an effective program for the coming year, including mor~ emphasis on education and fire prevention in the schools, 4-H Clubs, Future Farmers of America and other youth and adult organizations.
''This program costs the county comparatively little considerin$ the value of our timberlands.'

Ranger \H 1ton A. Pierce, Dodge County, fought three forest fires started by lightning on one after noon. These three fires, on the same afternoon, in the same County and in the same vicinity, probably set a record in the State for forest fires started by lightning. The thunderstorms were not followed by rain, which is also unusual in Georgia.
The fires, set in the Southwest section of the County, burned a total of only two acres due to the fast action of the Dodge County Forest Protection Unit and volunteer help in detecting and suppressing the fires.
Pulpwood lndustr,
Plants 60 Million

Quick work by Mi:tche 11 County Ran ger O.Ven House and his Unit saved a curing barn full of tobacco fr~ burning down last month. The barn lS located about a mile from the Camilla city limits and was fired to the limit for curing stems. The barn was already ablaze before the Unit could get to it. but recent rainy weather helped keep the flames down.
When House and his Unit arrived the earlv morning fire had gained too much. headway to be combatted with a bucket brigade, Water, pumped from a shallow well, tog e ther with the unit water tank was used in subduing t!w flnrrws.
Albert H. (Buck) Hembree; Jr. of Bartow assumed the duties of Stewart County Ranger August 1. Hembree succeeds Leonard P. Smith who resigned.
Hembree served three years in the Navy and received his degree from the 'l_!niversity of Georgia School of Forestry 1n June. He and his wife wi 11 reside in Lumpkin.

Pines
The Southern pulpwood industry, for the second consecutive year, has planted in excess of fiO million pine seedlings and replanted til, 500 acres, according to a survey recently completed by H. J. Malsberger, Forest.er, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association. The industry purchased 52~ million trees from state forest nurseries and grew the remaining eight million in company operated nurseries.
\1embers of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association were resJ?Onsible for 83 perc.ent of ~h~s total 1ndustry tree plant1ng act1v1ty.
The pulpwood in<Ju, t 1 y ut ueoq~ia planted approximately 12~ mi lllon trees purchased from the Georgia forestry tree nurseries, and planted 500,000 trees produced in their own nurseries.
In Georgia approximately 10 million trees were planted on lands belonging to pulpmills and an additional three million trees were distributed free of charge to small landowners in an effort to keep Georgia farmers interested in growing tree crops.

Forester Licensing Bill To Be Revised


The Georgia Olapter, Society of ,Americr.. Foresters, in session at the
Univer ity of Georgia School of
Forestry, Athens , on August tO and 11 voted to r ew rite the proposed bill for the licensing of professional foresters in the state. Lengthy discussion and debate disclosed that a number of changes were advisable be-
fore the measure is sen t to the Legislature . The revised version will be
submitt erl to all Chapter members for consideration before being finally

approved for submission to the Gene ral Assembly.
Appr'oximate 150 members were in attendance at the meeting . Nominations were made for Chapter officers , subject to the forthcoming election . Entertainment highlight of the gathering was a banquet on Friday evening, at which Dean James E . Gates, College of Business Aaministration, gave the feature address .

BALDWIN COUNTIANS KEPT CONSTANTLY AJfA.Rl Of THEIR BIG STAKE IN fOREST PROTECTION . Ranger
wen T. M. S.trick Land, (sh~wn taLking.with Loo kout tower Ly two-Wly radio), 'US es a new and -dl.re c ted edocatl.ona L technl-que to te H the Peop Le of his CO'Unty the extent of fore.;t Land and the va~1.1.e of the fJrotection s e::Aces of hi s unit .

Page Nine

Georgia forestry

1950 Forest Survey Begins

The new U. S. Forest Surve:y of Georgia began the first August 1n a six-county South Georgia area. The counties selected as the starting point of the survey are Mitchell, Decatur, Thomas, Brooks, Lowndes and Colquitt, The survey is being made under the supervision of the U. S. Forest Service from headquarters at the Southeastern Experiment Station, Ashevi lie, N. C.
The survey will be as detailed as possible with accuracy from one to three percent. The survey will require several months to complete and will involve the checking of some 200plot maps made from aerial photographs furnished by the Experiment Station. The Experiment Station will furnish all supervision and all necessary equipment for the project.
Such information as type and size of ownership, thenumber ofboard feet in the tract, the volume of tinber now, how fast it is growing and how fast it is being cut or dying out, naval stores production. percent of rlensity ... t II be i<!"thl"rE'ri.

"Keep Green"

Groups Form

LtVlL clubs in 48 of the state's 159Counties have formed KeepGreen Committees to cooperate with the Georgia Forestry Association in placing metal signs on principal roadways throughout the state,
Eventually 318 of the green-andwhite signs, urging everyone to ''Keep Georgia's Forests Green'', will be erected by participating organizations, which include the
Chambers of Corm1erce, Lions, Rotary,
Kiwanis, Civitan, Optimist and Ex-
change Clubs.

The Counties that have already

formed their Keep Georgia Green

Committees are: Worth, Appling,

Bartow, Coweta, Grady, Newton, Wal-

ker, Whitfield, Baldwin, Bibb, De-

catur, Jasper, Oconee, Ware, Wayne

Brooks, DeKalb, Jetf Davis Polk'

Colquitt, Gordon, Muscogee,' Troup:

Butts, Coffee,

Dough Glynn,

erty, Mit

Jones, chell, T

i fPt ,u t nCaa mr~

roll, Early, Lamar, Randolph Gilmer, Meriwether, Thomas,'

COtoabtb~

tooga, Cherok

Floyd, ee, Fulton,

LMowacnodne,s,SuSmptearl,diang~

Terrell.

Each plot wi 11 be cruised by the County Forest Ranger and the work will be carried on with other routine work of the County Protection Unit.
Personnel conducting the South Georgia Survey and representatives from each of the six counties met for a three dl!)' training program Julf 19 at the Camilla District Offlce, Georgia Forestry Conmission. Heading the group from the J:x,per iment Station was James W. Cruikshank, Otief, Division of Forest Economics; J. F. McCormack, in charge of field and ofi,ce survey work; and U. S. Foresters Mac"kay Bryan, Norman Force and Fri t~ Lorentzen. Representatives of the Georgia Forestry Commission were L. C. Hart, Assistant Director iin charge of Forest Management and Hugh P. Allen, Second District Forester, Camilla. Count)' Forest Rangers present were Owen House, Mitchell County, Miles S. Koger, Decatur County, Coleman D. Carr, Thomas County, Everett J. Hall, Brooks County, Frank King, Lowndes County and R. F. Roddenberry, Colquitt County.
!JrldOIUai PIUIO~
II~NULaiJe to CJttlMd
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The new proofbook is intended as a companion piece for the ready- made'' advertising series issued each year by AFPI. The mats will include 14 two-column forestry photographs with captions, eig_ht twocolumn feature stories with photographs and captions, four one-col~ cartoon strips featuring 'Woody'
and several editorial cartoons and
charts.
Oorgia edito.rs and publishers can d>tain the new proofbook by writing to
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J319 Eightl!enth St., NoWo, Washingtat DC

.... FFA AWARD
(O::ntiru:rl trrrr Pa;e 2}
breaks, sold 20 cords of wood and 5,000 feet of lumber. Last November he began putting on 1.000 turpentine boxes and anticipates 20 barrels of gum before the season ends. He expects to gross in the neighborhood of $320. Allen and his father run the five acres of woodland on a share basis.
Co-sponsors of the awards were St. Marys Kraft Corporation, St. Marys; Elberta Crate and Box Company, Bainbridge; and the Seaboar~ Air Line Railroad.
Judges of the contests were M. E. Coleman, American Turpentine Farlll<'rs Association ancl Bob Hoskins of the Seaboar~ Air Line Railroad.
BURNED FORESTS
I think the first gift God gave trees was pride,
That they might face His Heaven unbowed.
How straight the firs are on the mountainside!
How clean the pines! The whitest cloud,
The bluest sky, shame not a tree! Tree-heads are skyward honestly.
Tree pride is in the fiber of tree wood.
It dies by neither axe nor mill. In new white lumber, clean and
strong and good, Tree pride is firm and vital still. Proud are tall masts upon the sea. And. proud home-wood carved from
a tree.
One way of de..th along trees cannot face
And hold aloof from fear and shame;
Stark, blackened trunks that haunt a dismal place
Confess surrender to that flame, The forest fire. Then shall we be
Unsha~d that fire should rape a t1ee?
Burned forests on a mountainside. God's trees without his gift of pride.
S O'Mar Barker.

NAVAL STORES
(Cl:Ylti'7LFI fror Par;e 3}
7. .Restricted cupping practice is limited to new 1951 faces installed only on previously worked trees and earns five cents per fact. No round trees to be cupped.
13. Two anci a half cents paid for continuation of working faces qua lif ied under the restricted cupping practice in 1950.
9. Seven cents, paid under selective cupping practice, limite~ to work~ng faces installed for the f1rst work1ng in 1951 season. Dense stands of second-growth timber may be worked and an earlier thinning made in order to provide growing room for remaining trees. Half of trees nine inches or larger must be left uncupped.
10. Three cents paid for conqn'-;lation or selective cupping qual1f1ed for selective cupping practice in 1947, 1948, 1949or 1950.
11. Eight cents payment for ~elect
ive re-cupping practice, l1m1ted to tracts or drifts which were worked and earned payment under selec~ive cupping practice under a prev1ous program. Faces installed only on ~reviously worked trees; no faces 1nstalled on round trees.
12. Three and a halt cents payme~t
for continuation of selective recupping on tracts or d~ifts qua~ifi~d for selective re-cupp1ng pract1ce 1n 1950 program.
13. Eight or eleven cents per face
payment for faces worked 1n pilot plant tests depending o~ nature of practice performed. H1gher p~ac ~ices carry hi~her paymen~ . Pilot plant tests lim1ted to a minimum of
producers selec~ed by U. S. Forest
Service to conduct controlled ~x per iments in new nv>thods and equipment for gum prodUctron.

(Continued from Page 6)

Union Bag and Paper C':lrporatinn

J. C. Turner, District Forester,

Georgia Forestry Commission, George

W. Lavinder, District Forester,

Georgia Forestry Commission, Harry

Rossoll,

Illustrator, Southern

Region, U. S. Forest Service; Lester

L. Lundy, Assistant District Fores-

ter, Georgia Forestry Commission,

and R. E. Davis, Information and

Education chief, Georgia Forestry

Conmission.

Georgia Forestry
SEPTEMBER 1950

Entered as second-<lass mauer at the Post Office, Atlanta, Ga.